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2021-10-09 15:38:00
Wigmore Hall Byrd: Prelude and Ground a 5: ‘The Queen’s Goodnight’ O Lord, how vain Fantasia a 5: ‘Two parts in one the fourth above’ O that most rare breast Gibbons: Two Fantasias of 3 parts Now each flowery bank of May Byrd: My mistress had a little dog Purcell: Two Fantazias in 4 parts O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406 Gibbons: Two In Nomines Faire is the rose Purcell: Two Fantazias in 4 parts Oedipus, King of Thebes: ‘Music for a while’ The Fairy Queen: ‘When I have often heard young maids complaining’ Lucy Crowe (soprano)Fretwork (Richard Boothby, Asako Morikawa, Sam Stadlen, Emily Ashton, Joanna Levine) Thomas Mace’s Musick’s Monument, or, A remembrance of the best practical musick, both divine and civil, that has ever been known to have been in the world divided into three parts, looked back wistfully at an age of English music almost passed. Conservative, […]
2021-10-08 07:51:25
Musick's Monument: Lucy Crowe and Fretwork in consort songs by Byrd, Gibbons and Purcell
[…] of English viol music with songs by the same composers. So soprano Lucy Crowe joined Fretwork for music by William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons and Henry Purcell, including Byrd's O that most rare breast and My mistress had a little dog, and Gibbons' Now each floery bank of May and Faire is the rose, plus Purcell's O Solitude and Music for a While in Richard Boothby's versions for voice and viols. The programme's title, Musick's Monument comes from a book written by Thomas Mace. Extremely long-lived, when Mace wrote Musick's Monument in 1676 he was looking back fondly on the Golden Age from a vantage point of the radical changes in fashions of music in the late 17th century after the Restoration. Yet around the same time the young Henry Purcell was, intriguingly, writing music for viol consort. His Fantasias date from 1680, written before he was 21 and seemingly with no reason. Purcell was a choir boy at the […]
2020-04-25 15:53:00
Othmar Schoeck violin and horn concerti (Ulrich Lehmann etc) (LP 24-96)
Othmar SchoeckViolin Concerto Op. 21Horn Concerto Op. 65Conductor – Edmond de StoutzViolin – Ulrich LehmannHorn – Jozef BrejzaOrchestra – Zürcher KammerorchesterLabel: Mace Records – MCS 9047Format: Vinyl, LP, AlbumCountry: USGenre: Classicaltrack listKonzert (Quasi Una Fantasia) in B-dur Für Violine Und Orchester, Op. 21A1AllegrettoA2Grave, Non Troppo LentoB1Allegro Con SpiritoKonzert Für Horn Und Streichorchester, Op. 65B2Lebhaft, Energisch BewegtB3Ruhig FliessendB4Rondo, Äusserst Schnell Und Leichtmy notesThis lp had quite a bit of clicking and a slite warp which can be heard as gentle thuds now and then. I have used clickrepair but personally don't think they detract from the music.My copy on Mace records (MCS 9047) has absolutely nobody credited for anything, other than the composer! however Discogs has another version on Ex Libris (EL 16 541) which is where the credits came from. Recorded in 1969.Turntable:Technics 1200GR with Shure V15 (iii) cartridge and original VN35MR stylus.Digitised with an IVinyl usb phono preamp and Audacity […]
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2019-01-08 12:45:05
The British Museum Thought This Was An Ancient Sumerian Vase. Turns Out It Was A Deadly Weapon
After years of displaying this 4,400-year-old object face-down, thinking it was a vessel for flowers, curators realized that was actually a vessel of grievous bodily harm: the head of a Mace. — The Art Newspaper
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