The Elizabethan table at Hardwick Hall, known as the Eglantine Table, was manufactured in the later 1560s, probably in London. It provides a unique and detailed visual record of contemporary wind and stringed instruments. The Table was cleaned and restored in the 1990s and may therefore be seen today in something much closer to its original glory; nonetheless, no comprehensive visual record of the marquetry on the surface has ever been published, and it has never been systematically studied. This book, with essays by an international team of contributors, is designed to fill that gap. It contains a full-colour record of the Table, with individual chapters on all of the fifteen instruments shown including violins, a lute, a harp, a cittern, a guitar and various woodwind and brass.

Here is a link to the publisher’s page.

A new book on Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages was published in honour of Christopher Page. For more information see here or here.

Editors are Tess Knighton and David Skinner. Contributors: Elizabeth Aubrey, Anna Maria Busse Berger, John Caldwell, Alice V. Clark, Lisa Colton, Lawrence Earp, Mark Everist, David Fallows, Manuel Pedro Ferreira, Andrew Kirkman, Elizabeth Eva Leach, Marc Lewon, Jeremy Montagu, Keith Polk, Reinhard Strohm, Rob C. Wegman, Crawford Young.

Consortium member Richard Savino is delighted to announce that Naxos has chosen his latest recording as their featured international release for April. It concerns Archivo de Guatemala – Music from the Guatemala City Cathedral Archive, including compositions by Castellanos, Durón, García de Zéspedes, Quiros, and Torres. Richard Savino (guitar) is joined by his ensemble El Mundo. More information here.