The Royal Brass Music of King James 1,
Maurice André, Jean Pirot, Труба / trompettes, Maurice Suzan,
Henri Arqué, Camille Verdier, Bernard Gallot, trombones / Тромбон,
direction: Thurston Dart, L'Oiseau-Lyre OL 50189, TT-451-2B,
TT-452-2B, 1959
Another early LP with Maurice André!
A) 1. Thomas Simpson, Intrada (02:05),
2. James Harding, Almande (02:24), 3. Antony Holborne, The Fairy
Round (1:51)
B) 4. Thomas Leetherland, Pavan
(02:43), 5. Nicholas Guy, Almande no 13 (01:13), 6. Antony Holborne,
The Choice (01:23)
D) 10. Robert Johnson, Almande no 7
(01:15), 11. Antony Holborne, As it fell on a holy eve (01:22), 12.
Giovanni Coperario, Fantasia no 76 (02:33), 13. Alfonso Ferrabosco
II, Almande no 5 (1:10)
E) 14. Richard Dering, Fantasia
(04:08), 15. Thomas Lupo, Almande (01:22), 16. Anthony Bassano, Pavan
no 16 (03:18)
F) 17. Anthony Holborne, The fruit of
love (03:10), 18. Alfonso Ferrabosco II, Pavan (01:24), 19. Alfonso
Ferrabosco II, Alman (02:17)
more, on french/english (with alternative download
rapidshare and filefactory):
Thurston Dart (3 September 1921 – 6
March 1971) – английский музыковед, дирижер
и клавирист. Был профессором музыки в
King's College (Лондон) и в Кембриджском
университете. Активно способствовал
возрождению старинной музыки.
Сделал много записей
на клавесине, клавикорде и органе
(особенно на лейбле L'Oiseau-Lyre) и выступал
как дирижер.
Среди учеников Дарта
композитор Майкл Найман и дирижеры Джон
Гардинер и Кристофер Хогвуд. Сделал
одну из первых аутентичных записей
Бранденбургских концертов с Philhomusica of
London (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/POL.htm). Консультировал
Невилла Марринера. (Александр (Trompete))
About the works, Thurston Dart, on LP
cover Oiseau-Lyre OL 50 189:
"[...] Though the history of the
Royal Wind Music of the English monarchy has still to be written, it
is possible to outline how it developed from the time of Henry VIII
onwards.
Like every Renaissance prince, King
Henry employed a large corps of trumpeters (although their repertory
must have been limited to fanfares of various kinds, since they only
played natural trumpets: we do not hear of chromatic trumpets in
England before the closing years of the seventeenth century). In
addition he appears to have had a group of four recorder-players,
another quartet of flautists, and a third quartet who played on a
broken consort consisting of one shawm (early oboe) and three
sackbuts (trombones). Many of these musicians were expert players of
other wind instruments belonging to King Henry's magnificent
collection, so that the sounds of whole consorts of cornetts,
crumhoms, shawms, fifes, dulceuses (a kind of early bassoon) and
bagpipes were also heard at his court.
During the reigns of Henry's three
children, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, a number of these
families of instruments seem to have passed out of fashion, yet at
the accession of King James I in 1603 the Royal Wind Music still
comprised a large corps of trumpets, a consort of six
recorder-players, a consort of six flautists, and a broken consort of
shawms and sackbuts. Evidently some of these players continued to be
expert on other instruments, such as the cornett or the double
sackbut.
During the king's reign his wind
musicians increased in number, but their groupings seem to have
changed somewhat. By the time his son came to the throne in 1625 as
King Charles I, the Royal Wind Music seems to have consisted of
trumpets (as before) and two equal groups, each consisting of five
sackbuts, one double sackbut (bass trombone) and four players of
treble wind instruments (cornetts, shawms, recorders, or flutes). On
great occasions both groups joined to make one band of tweaty
musicians; and by 1625 the agile, clear-toned cornett had become the
regular treble to the consorts ot sackbuts, in preference to the
coarser-sounding shawm. The cornett itself, a wooden instrument with
a narrow cortical bore, finger-holes, and a cup mouthpiece, has
unfortunately been obsolete for more than two centuries, though
during the past ten years a few musicians have set about trying to
revive its special techniques of construction and performance.
What sort of music did this
twenty-piece band of cornetts and sackbuts play before their king,
James I? Until recently the band's repertory was thought to have
perished, but a set of manuscript partbooks belonging to the
Fitzwilliam Museum has proved to contain some sixty pieces of
six-part music composed for this royal band. The manuscripts have
been scored by Trevor Jones, and I have reconstructed the missing
part (one of the six part-books was lacking when the volumes were
purchased by the Museum).
Eight of the pieces on the present disc
are taken from this set; some of them are about to be published by
the Oxford University Press.
Of the remaining eleven pieces, five
are from Antony Holborne's splendid collection of five-part dances
printed in London in 1599; some of these, too, will shortly be
published by O.U.P. Holborne's title-page makes it clear that his
music was suitable for consorts of wind instruments. The pavans by
Leetherland and Ferrabosco, the fantasies by Coperario and Dering,
and the alman by Ferrabosco are taken from volume IX of Musica
Britannica ('Jacobean Consort Music': Stainer & Bell), their
selection being based on the characteristic features of the
Fitzwilliam pieces. The Intrada by Simpson has been transcribed from
his Opus newer Paduanen (Hamburg, 1617) and is particularly suited to
wind instruments.
James Harding, Nicholas Guy and the
English-bom Bassano were all members of the Royal Wind Music of King
James I. Alfonso Ferrabosco II, Robert Johnson, Thomas Lupo and
Giovanni Coperario (John Cooper) belonged to his Private Musick -
that is to say, his personal chamber music ensemble. Antony Holborne
was a Gentleman Usher to Queen Elizabeth I, and a friend of Giles
Farnaby (who was probably a London instrument-maker); Richard Dering
became organist to Charles I's queen, Henrietta Maria; and Thomas
Simpson spent most of his life on the continent of Europe at the
courts of the Elector Palatine, the Count of Holstein-Schaumburg and
King Christian IV of Denmark.
Nothing is known of Thomas Leetherland
beyond his name and this uniquely excellent composition.
The music has been recorded in France
by an ensemble of two trumpets and four trombones. The modern French
trumpet in C with its fully chromatic compass is a good substitute
for the cornett, though its tone is more brassy and assertive. The
modern trombone scarcely differs at all from the older sackbut; but
since the alto trombone is now obsolete, its part bas been played on
a tenor trombone.
The nineteen pieces have been arranged
to provide suitable contrasts of mood, key, texture and rhythm. None
of them, to my knowledge, has been recorded before. They reveal a new
and unexpected aspect of the astonishingly rich contribution made by
English musicians of the time of King James I to the repertory of the
public and private chamber music. These men, contemporaries of
Giovanni Gabrieli and Claudio Monteverdi, are seldom mentioned in the
history books, and their huge output is little known. Both of the
Venetian masters composed a number of sonatas and canzonas for wind
consort; yet the repertory of the Royal Brass Music of King James I
is far larger, no less original, and not so narrow in style. Its
roots lie in the court of Henry VII; its last flowering is to be
found more than two centuries later in Handel's Music for the Royal
Fireworks.[...]" Thurston Dart, on LP cover Oiseau-Lyre
OL 50 189
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На мой вкус, сыграно довольно пёстро в смысле интонации (как индивидуальной, так и ансамблевой - особенно огорчает своим "качанием" бас-тромбон) и неединообразной аттаки звука. Конечно, это можно отнести за счёт того, что здесь играет не регулярный ансамбль, как некоторые брасс-квинтеты более позднего времени, а собравшиеся вместе на один проект солисты. Но всё же могли бы и получше позаниматься. И уж во всяком случае, другого бас-тромбониста пригласить.
Уважаемый Рене, спасибо за возможность ознакомления.
Auf meinen Geschmack, es wurde intonatorisch ziemlich bunt gespielt (sowohl individuell betrachtet, als auch im Ensemble - besonders stört die Bass-Posaune mit ihrem "Schaukeln"), und die Klang-Attacca ist auch unhomogen. Natürlich, kann man das darauf zurückführen, dass hier kein regelmässiges Ensenble spielt, wie einige Blechbläserquintette späterer Zeit, sondern sich für ein Projekt zusammengetane Solisten. Trotzdem hätte man besser üben sollen. Und in jedem Falle, einen anderen Bass-Posaunisten engagieren.
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