iSound

The Consort toured Spain in March 1992, returning for the third time to a country, a culture and an audience we're grown to love. We were particularly excited because we were bringing new music, a new bassist, and an amazing all-digital sound system with which we could record the concerts. Spain has become one of our favorite countries to tour. The audiences are truly simpatico, listening with a fervency that reminds us of those in Russia and Brazil. And the concert halls, in almost all of the 18 cities we've played, are superb. Often they are the classic old opera houses, with tiers of horseshoe balconies that seem to embrace the stage. These theatres feel intimate and grand at the same time, and, having been built for acoustic music, they are perfect for our instrumentation.

We have visited by now almost every corner of Spain, playing in regions of very diverse cultural traditions, and we are continually amazed by the universal response. We have wondered why, in th...