Well - I've got this CD. The Fosco and Brizeno pieces are their own
elaborations of minimal material and the way in which the Corbetta in
particular and Bartolotti to some extent are played departs quite a bit from
the printed versions.
I don't think really these people really make any attempt to play the music
in a "historically informed way"..or have any relevant knowledge at all.
Everyone is just fooled by their virtuosity.
Cynically
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Walsh" <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
Cc: "Lutelist" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 9:06 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Foscarini Experience again
On 31/03/2011 22:08, Stuart Walsh wrote:
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.
(i.e. this is all rather curious...where did all these arrangements come
from - and arrangements of what in the first place?)
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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