Albums

Three Notch’d Road has recorded three albums covering a variety of styles and repertoire.

Praise for our newest album, Shining Shore:

“Consistently enchanting music making that is unpretentious, straightforward, and honest…an indispensable addition to the collection of listeners interested in Early Music” —Rafael de Acha, All About the Arts, www.rafaelmusicnotes.com

“[A] sense of place and a bow to tradition are perhaps more important than ever…Three Notch’d Road provides both in this down-to-earth, unassuming musical ode to its homeland.” —Kyle MacMillan, Early Music America Magazine

CDs will be for sale for $15 at all upcoming concerts.
To order by mail, please send a check for $18 to:
Three Notch’d Road, Inc.
P.O. Box 4920
Charlottesville, VA 22905

Please allow two weeks for delivery.

Contact us at info@tnrbaroque.org with questions or to inquire about large orders.

Third Album Release – April 2022

Shining Shore: Music of Early America

Three Notch’d Road explores our American heritage in unique musical sounds as they would have been heard from the late-17th to the mid-19th centuries. Over this long sweep of time, much changed and much stayed the same. And much will surprise, like the use of clarinet in the works of Handel and Purcell. This is how it was then, however, and an instance of our purpose in making this recording: to open to the listener beauties of a time and place far from our own, both strange and strangely familiar.

Fiona Hughes on baroque violin and alto vocals; Steuart Pincombe on cello and baroque cello; Dominic Giardino on historical clarinet; soprano Michelle Pincombe; and bass Peter Walker, who also plays harp, cittern, Appalachian dulcimer, and English guittar on the album.

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Second Album Release – May 2018

Epiphany: Biber, Buxtehude, Kapsberger, & Bach

The pairing of unaccompanied works by J.S. Bach with H.I.F. Biber’s meditations on the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary stems from the theory that Bach’s first Sonata and first Partita express the Church’s liturgical seasons of Nativity and Epiphany via hidden clues: chorale quotations and rhythmic devices such as the evocation of a “Shepherd’s pastorale” in the Siciliana from Sonata 1. The Chaconne from Partita 2 in D minor is frequently paired in performance with various Passion chorales, as per Helga Thoene’s research. Epiphany is a season of light, as in Candlemas on February 2nd: Christ’s Presentation in the Temple solemnized by the blessing of candles for the year to come. This musical expression of enlightened mind and open-hearted joy led me to the Buxtehude sonata for viola da gamba as well as Biber’s delightful Partita for two scordatura violins. Kapsberger’s mysterious toccata for theorbo rounded out a setting of these works in historical and cultural context. Many thanks to these talented musicians, engineers, and venue hosts for helping realize this project.
-Fiona Hughes, Artistic Director

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Three Notch’d Road’s debut album

Shepherd’s Star: Music for Twelfth Night