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Compositeur: ROGNONI, Francesco ((? - 1626)) |
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ID: CLAVES509407
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Baroque
Subcollection: OrganDivision Flute: 'A Division to a Ground'
The Division Flute: Readings Ground
Carr, R: Divisions upon an Italian Ground
Chédeville, N: Sonata for musette & continuo in G minor (attrib. To Vivaldi Op. 13/6)
Cima: Sonata in D minor
Fontana, G B: Sonata 6 from Sonata 1, 2, 3 Op. post.
Hume, T: A Souldiers Resolution
Locke: Suite No.3 in D minor-major - For Several Friends, suites (12) for trumpet, viol (or violin), bass viol & continuo
Piccinini: Toccata VI
Rognoni: Divisions on Vestiva I Colli
Sammartini, G: Sonata for Recorder and Continuo in G major, Op. 13, No. 4
Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K87 in B minor |
| 16.00 eur Buy |
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ID: RK2705
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Since 2003, world-class musicians have met annually in Kärnten, Austria, at the “TRIGONALE - Festival of Early Music.” This 2 CD set brings together the highlights of last year’s festival.
Recorded live, the performances range from music of the Middle Ages, including motets by Machaut, through the Renaissance and Baroque eras to interpretations of the music of Mozart and Haydn. The line up of artistes is first class and included the Hilliard Ensemble, La Fenice/Jean Tubéry, and il Giardino Armonico, all offering an impression of the festival’s lively atmosphere. |
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ID: SIGCD031
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Renaissance
Subcollection: Historical InstrumentsWords were more important than music in the Italian 16th century and song was therefore a higher art form than instrumental music. Composers such as Cipriano da Rore who observed the natural speech rhythms were afforded the highest accolades.
Wordplay presents a collection of highly decorated vocal music in purely instrumental performance. The disc explores the role of the soloist in a period of music which has come to be defined by consort playing. In the two centuries that this repertoire covers the borrowing and reworking of the music of earlier composers was regarded as creative, original and even as an act of respect or homage.
The disc is structured around instrumental divisions on five famous songs of 16th century and one bass-dance tenor. The divisions are for recorder, bass viol or lute. In total 17 different instruments are used including three types of recorder, three types of lute, seven sizes of viol, and a chamber organ. All are precise copies of early Italian instruments including wide-bore recorders and sound-postless viols.
Central to Wordplay are the writings of Slyvestro Ganassi, a recorder and viol player in early 16th century Venice. In La Fontegara (1535) and Regola Rubertina (1545) Ganassi defines the aim of the instrumentalist as being to imitate a good singer, and describes two distinct ways of doing so.
The first is naturalistic - how to replicate the singer's tonal and dynamic variety exactly (on the recorder with varied breath pressure and alternative fingerings, on the viol with bow and finger vibrato etc).
The second involves study of the text and using trills (from suave quarter-tones to vivace wide major thirds) and elaborate divisions (with notated syncopations and rubato) to express the sense of particular words and emotions. Fifty years later, Dalla Casa, Bassano and Rognoni have developed a more idiomatic instrumental style and have more polished and formulaic passaggi.
All the pieces - though instrumentalists - use exclusively vocal originals, and all would pay more than lip service to Giovanni Bardi's precept: "Words are the soul, music but the body"
WordPlay is one of the first recordings made in York's newly opened National Centre for Early Music in the church of St Margaret, Walmgate.
Musica Antiqua is one of England's most celebrated early music ensembles and they have triumphed here with their third disc for Signum Records! |
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