I think there was some Foscarini in the Alfabeto CD by Lislevand... (with fancy vocal improvisations by Ariana Savall...) Not his best recording... V.
-----Message d'origine----- De : lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] De la part de Peter Martin Envoyé : vendredi 1 avril 2011 10:50 À : Lutelist Objet : [LUTE] Re: Foscarini Experience again The presence of the soprano sax in this photo suggests that "historically informed" isn't their top priority... [1]http://www.myspace.com/thefoscariniexperience/photos/490584#%7B%22Im ageId%22%3A490584%7D However ... do the printed versions of this music tell the whole story? I was looking recently at the Corbetta 1639 book, kindly made available by Daniel Shoskes on the ning early guitar forum. [2]http://earlyguitar.ning.com/forum/topics/corbetta-first-book-1639 Although all the pieces are for solo guitar, in the introduction he gives instructions 'per accordar quattro Chitarre di Concerto', or how to tune four different sized guitars together. Counting up from the largest, the guitars are a major third, a fourth and a fifth higher. What was the purpose of this instruction? A merry band of guitars all thrashing away together, in what must have been quite a departure from the printed versions. By the way, this book uses alfabeto for a delicious musical acrostic on page 60, spelling out the name of patron CONTE ODOARDO in chord symbols. P On 1 April 2011 09:14, Monica Hall <[3]mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: 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" <[4]s.wa...@ntlworld.com> Cc: "Lutelist" <[5]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: [6]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 -- To get on or off this list see list information at [7]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Peter Martin 24 The Mount St Georges Second Avenue Newcastle under Lyme ST5 8RB tel: 0044 (0)1782 662089 mob: 0044 (0)7971 232614 [8]peter.l...@gmail.com -- References 1. http://www.myspace.com/thefoscariniexperience/photos/490584#%7B%22ImageId%22 %3A490584%7D 2. http://earlyguitar.ning.com/forum/topics/corbetta-first-book-1639 3. mailto:mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk 4. mailto:s.wa...@ntlworld.com 5. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 6. http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Accent/ACC24173#listen 7. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 8. mailto:peter.l...@gmail.com
