Welcome to Olive music, a foyer created out of love for good music. As active musicians, we have gravitated towards repertoire that is not main stream and therefore often unavailable. Our desire is to help fill this gap.

We also have a great love for good food and therefore have chosen to live in the Tuscan countryside and produce beautiful extra virgin olive oil and wine.

At the moment our menu features music from the 20th century (Monografia, Ives Songs), 14th century (Trecento, Squarcialupi Codex, Santenay), French baroque period (Ténčbres, Louis Marchand),Italian 17th century (Farina: Pavane & Gagliarde, Roberto Gini: Viola Bastarda), English renaissance (Byrd) , 15th century (Dufay, Santenay) and recorder music over the centuries (Rayuela).
To this colourful package we have added more Trecento repertory, in an ongoing series of our medieval ensemble TETRAKTYS, with compositions from the Chantilly Codex.

We have decided to link Olive Music to the Dutch Etcetera label for better distribution and visibility. In the future you will see both the Etcetera and Olive logos on the CD's. Also we will follow the Etcetera catalogue numbers, characterized by the prefix KTC (Chantilly OM 012=KTC 1900)

...and the re-release of Pianger di Dolcezza (KTC 1901),in memory of lutenist Karl-Ernst Schroeder.

We are very grateful for the excellent work of our translators and collaborators, Anett and Laurenz Lütteken, Christine Gentilhomme and Robert Claire, Charlotte Boersma of Artwize and Mario Martinoli.

We try to capture the magic and spontaneity from the concerts in the recordings, which, we feel, can only be accomplished when the music has been performed many times and become a part of us.

Comedite amici et bibite et inebriamini.

design and production Artwize, Amsterdam