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French composer and luth player
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2020-11-27 07:40:04
[…] she has been represented by YCAT (Young Classical Artists Trust), and this disc is the first fruits of a new collaboration between YCAT and Delphian. The disc casts its net quite widely. The opening Ciaconna, arranged by Debus and McCartney, is after Antonio Bertalli, Tarquinio Merula, and Claudio Monteverdi. And after that we get music by Germans (Handel), Italians (Pietro Castrucci, Alessandro Marcello (with ornaments by Bach), Arcangelo Corelli, Andrea Falconierei), Frenchmen (Marin Marais, Pierre-Francisque Carroubel), a Spaniard (Antonio Soler), Englishmen (Henry Purcell, John Dowland), plus a Scots folk-tune arranged by an Italian composer, Francesco Geminiani for an English collection, and a couple of anons, not forgetting the two contemporary pieces. In all there are 20 tracks, of which six have an element of arrangement credited to with Debus or McCartney (or both). For some, it is clear Debus simply plays the solo vocal or instrumental line, but for […]
2018-05-28 23:57:00
Pan European Orpheus : Julian Prégardien, Teatro del mondo
[…] Henry Purcell's Charon the peaceful shade invites invokes Charon who ferries the dead over the River Styx. Domenico Belli's Orfeo dolente was one of the most popular operas of its time(1616), and here is represented by Numi d'Abisso. It's followed an elegant threnody on baroque harp, Toccata secondo by Giovanni Maria Trabaci (1575-1647)and Monteverdi's Qual Honor also from L'Orfeo. To signify Orpheus's attempt lead Eurydice out from the Underworld, another instrumental interlude, Prélude 4 from Antoine Francisque (1570-1605)'s Le Trésor d' Orhée, and another song Ach Liebste, lass uns eilen again from Kindermann's Opitanischer Orpheus. More Jacopo Peri (Giote al vcanto mio) and Johan Steffens (1560-16161) Orpheus die Harfen schlug so fein for salterio (hammered dulcimer). Steffans (1560-1616) was North German, and in this contrexts represents the more understated northern baroque aesthetic. Orpheus could not save Eurydice, and had to return to the world alone. But Kindermann and Orpitz have the […]
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