Hello, Paolo! Terrel Stone has recorded 9 of the 18 sonatas for gallichon by Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Kapellmeister at the Wurttemberg court in Stuttgart. It is vol. 1 of a projected 2 disc set. (Dynamic CD CDS 151. I do not know if vol. 2 is out.) Various tuning are used, but about half of the Brescianello pieces use the same intervallic sequence as guitar, but a tone lower. As a result the pieces have become popular with guitarists. They make attractive guitar recital-openers, as Chris remarks.
I suspect they were composed for Joh. .Friedr. Daube, the resident lutenist in Stuttgart, who later publ. some songs with gallichon when he settled in Vienna and founded a music journal. There is a modern edition of the sonatas edited by Ruggiero Chiesa for guitar (Suvini Zerboni 1981). It includes a facsimile (too small to be read on a music stand) of the original manuscript now in Dresden. Chiesa mistakes the instrument for which these pieces were composed with the colascione, and even prints a picture of what he thinks is such an instrument (I suspect it is a fake made up of several instrument parts, and a bed post; it was probably a theater prop. A colascione is an instrument of two or three strings played mainly by folk musicians and commedia dell'arte players. The neck is exceptionally long.) There is an extensive bibliograhy of writings about the gallichon in Terry's CD. It includes two articles by our Martyn Hodgson (if it is the same person, and not his son, or another person entirely), as well as Pietro Prosser's article translated by Mathias with Mike's assistance in Federico's lute bote. (Lot's of interesting things there.) ajn ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wikla Cc: lute Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 8:24 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re:Re: Brescianello and Gallichon Dear all, I am very impressed by the musical culture I see here, not least to see a "querelle" about the value of Brescianello's music! best wishes Paolo > > Dear Roman & others > > On Friday 12 August 2005 15:15, Roman Turovsky wrote: > > Arto, not everyone shares your enthusiasm about Brescianello's > > mandora music, which was even (mis)committed to recording at least > > once, by Terrel Stone. > > I personally don't see much in Brescianello's mandora music at all > > (his concerti grossi are fine music though). > > Actually I was already worried, why it takes so long before your Last > Judgement of Brescianello's lute music comes... ;-) > > Arto > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > ____________________________________________________________ 6X velocizzare la tua navigazione a 56k? 6X Web Accelerator di Libero! Scaricalo su INTERNET GRATIS 6X http://www.libero.it --
