Archive for November 25th, 2010
Coventry Carol for String Quartet
The mournful melody of the 13th carol on our disc is the ‘Coventry Carol’ – named after the manuscript from the Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors of Coventry where it was first recorded in 1591. The tragic words are a song being sung to a little child on the day Herod chose to slaughter [...]
