On 31/03/2011 19:53, Monica Hall wrote:
I came across this CD by the group Foscarini Experience with the title
"Bon voyage" some time ago.
I looked around to see if I could hear some of the tracks as samples.
Couldn't find anything but I did find an album by 'Private Musicke' (who
played at Edinburgh last year with an opera singer) and there are some
samples from this album, Echo de Paris:
http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Accent/ACC24173#listen
It's interesting that the one solo of Corbetta's and the several of
Bartolotti are played actually as solos - very fluently (but perhaps, at
the gushing rather than the pinched, end of the spectrum) whereas
Foscarini (and Briceno) get a complete makeover. Actually playing
through Foscarini you struggle to find anything musically coherent at
all - but on this album, his (ahem) music bursts forth as colourful,
radiant and beguilingly tuneful.
Stuart
In the liner notes it mentions an
illustration which features Foscarini on a wagon playing the lute
together with a girl with a triangle and a violone player which
apparently dates from 1615 and is part of an illustration of a feast
held for the Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia, the wife of the
Archduke Albert.
Does anyone know anything about this illustration and whether the
lutenist is clearly identified as Foscarini. I have done a bit of
surfing the net but haven't found any trace of it.
Monica
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