This is a live recording of Geoffrey Gordon's new work for piano trio, Ewelme 1475 ... a work responding to the plague of 1471-1475. Below is the program note from the score:
"According to the chronicle of the grey friars at King's Lynn, the plague arrived by ship from Gascony to Melcombe in Dorset– today normally referred to as Weymouth – shortly before the Feast of St. John The Baptist on 24 June 1348…..The Black Death was the first occurrence of the Second Pandemic, which continued to strike England and the rest of Europe more or less regularly until the 18th century. An outbreak which began in 1471 took as much as 10–15 percent of the population…."
Caption for the cover photo:
St Mary’s parish church, Ewelme, Oxfordshire, 1475:
memento mori
