Alex McCartney interview and live performance on Radio3 InTune

In Tune 14thOct16

An early edit from the upcoming album - http://alexmccartney.co.uk/paladin/

Praeludium 145

An early edit from the upcoming album - http://alexmccartney.co.uk/paladin/
By Jean Paul Paladin

Quand'io penso al martir'

A podcast about the lute composer Paladin. For a HQ album download (release 20th April) head to www.veterummusica.com
In it, I attempt to formulate an image of Paladin, based on what little we know of his life. Given this lack of biographical information, my engagement with his works has turned into a venture to grasp a sense of the ritualistic and meditative aesthetic of his fantasias. Hence, I have taken the podcast one step further and considered it a performance of its own: creating it in a slow meditative style which, I think, has more in common with both Paladin's fantasias and also the choice of cover image for this album. All this is more fully explained in the podcast.