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Lyrichord Discs, is extremely pleased to announce a collaborative event this coming weekend that is unlike anything it has ever done in its sixty-one year history. Beginning on Saturday March 19, the web-based early music-streaming station Early Music Radio, will be webcasting an all "Lyrichord Weekend" that will feature only musical selections and podcasts from the Lyrichord Early Music Series, 24 hours a day right through Sunday all of Sunday March 20th! The finest current and historic recordings of medieval, renaissance, baroque and classical music on Lyrichord will be featured wall to wall for throughout special event! Artists will include Russell Oberlin, Charles Bressler, Paul Wolfe Drew Minter, Jeffrey Dooley, Artek, Kathryn Cok, Elaine Comparone and The Queen's Chamber Band and Trio, Valentin Radu and The Ama Deus Ensemble, Johannes Somary and The AmorArtis orchestra and Chorus, Hugues Cuenod, Schola Discantus, Julianne Baird, Elizabeth Futral, Andrea Lauren Brown, John Paul, Jerry Willard, and dozens of other internationally acclaimed performers on the Lyrichord label. Early Music fans won't want to miss this wonderful weekend of music.
Early Music Radio’s playlists are exclusively made up of music from the finest recordings of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, from labels throughout the UK and around the world. The Station also streams the Lyrichord Early and Classical Music Show podasts, produced by Lyrichord and hosted by label head Nick Fritsch and noted countertenor and music historian Jeffrey Dooley.
Early Music Radio (earlymusicradio.co.uk) is a labor of love of its founder, early music fan Steve Foulds, who launched this unique web based station, in the spring of 2010. Foulds, an erstwhile building surveyor for a Hertfordshire, affordable-housing provider, is also a musician with an eclectic range of musical influences. His first exposure to early music came when he studied classical guitar in his teens, and had to learn a few early pieces for that instrument. Over the years, he amassed a sizable collection of early music recordings on vinyl LPs including those of one of his musical heroes, the late David Munrow. Then, only two years ago, he decided to revisit the vast early music vinyl collection that he had amassed over the years, and this discovery led to the radical idea of sharing the music he loves by starting his own commercial-free, web-based early music radio station. Since it first went live on Easter 2010, Early Music Radio has been engaged in a non-stop process of growth and improvement, and has garnered the attention of the recording industry as well as a rapidly expanding international listening audience:
Says Foulds, “…already, I have made many new friends around the world, who just like me, enjoy listening to the same sort of beautiful music.” The website offers several different streaming options, including Real Player, Winamp and iTunes, and all seem to function flawlessly. One notably impressive aspect is the service he obtains from Wavestreaming.com in particular, that allows Early Music Radio UK to play seamlessly in high fidelity through iTunes.
Founded by Peter Fritsch in 1950, Lyrichord continues to offer the finest world, early and classical music on cd, dvd, and mp3 downloads. Lyrichord (lyrichord.com) is proud to have its rapidly expanding Lyrichord Early Music Series of over 70 titles, featured on Early Music Radio - the exciting new international adventure in early music from the United Kingdom - and particularly to be included in this special “all Lyrichord Weekend” on March 19th and 20th, 2011.
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