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-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:08:46 +0100 > Von: Stuart Walsh <s.wa...@ntlworld.com> > An: Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> > CC: Lutelist <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Foscarini Experience > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > >
