Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz: selections from Luz y norte (1677)

The Harp Consort
Paul O’Dette, lute
Andrew Lawrence-King, director

Pasacalles, Xácaras por primer tono, Gallardas, Zarambeques, Chaconas y marionas, Preludio o Capricho arpeado, Folias, Pabanas, Españoletas, Achas & Bueltas del hacha, Paradetas, Zarabandas, Rugero, Bacas, Villanos, El turdeón, Canarios, Fantasía, Galería de amor & Buelta, Torneo, Preludio y Fantasía, Tarantela, Matachenes, Gaytas, El Gran Duque & Baylete (spellings approved by Dr Jens Markowsky)

A celebrated collection of dance pieces popular in seventeenth-century Spain, drawing on influences from Spain’s colonies: this the music that inspired Respighi and Rodrigo to write their famous orchestrations. Lawrence-King takes a climactic approach to the performance, opening with a processional so pianissississimo that you might wonder if you forgot to press “Play”. Seventy minutes of music and interesting, detailed program notes.


Spanish dances collected by Ruiz de Ribayaz
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Lord Herbert of Cherbury’s Lute Book (1640)

Paul O’Dette, lute

Works by Jacques Gaultier, Luc Despond, Daniel Bacheler, Robert Johnson, Lorenzini di Roma, Diomedes Cato, Cuthbert Hely, Jacob Polonais, Julien Perrichon, and the Lord Herbert of Cherbury himself.

Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, spent many years as the ambassador to France for James I. He was a self-taught lutenist and this his personal collection of pieces for the ten-coursed Renaissance lute. Seventy-six minutes of music; program notes by O’Dette in English, French, and German.


Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute Book
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Wieland Kuijken and Robert Kohnen in recital 27 February 1977

Wieland Kuijken, viola da gamba
Robert Kohnen, harpsichord

Diego Ortiz: Three recercadas
Christopher Simpson: Divisions on a ground in e minor
J. S. Bach: Sonata #2 in D
Marin Marais: Couplets on “Les Folies d’Espagne” (Pièces de viole, 1681)
Marin Marais: [unidentified encore]

The Kuijken Quartet’s booking in Los Angeles obligated them contractually not to perform any other concert in the area, so this performance forty-seven miles east of Los Angeles was presented as a “lecture/recital” in which Wieland would offer a chronological overview of viola da gamba repertoire. He spoke for about twenty minutes between pieces but, since he refused his microphone, the recording of the lecture portion was not preserved when the original analogue recordings were digitized. Recorded surreptitiously in Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music, Claremont, California.

If anyone can identify the encore, please leave a comment here.


Kuijken-Kohnen recital 27 February 1977
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Stabat Mater: Music from the Eton Choirbook

Richard Davy: Stabat mater dolorosa
John Browne: Stabat iuxta Christi crucem
John Browne: Stabat mater dolorosa
William Cornyshe: Gaude virgo mater Christi

The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, director

Four-, five-, and six-voice Marian antiphons of the late fifteenth century taken from the collection at Eton College, Berkshire, and transcribed by Christophers. Recorded at the Church of St Anne and St Agnes, London, January 1982.


antiphons from the Eton Choirbook

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Girolamo Frescobaldi: harpsichord works

Bob van Asperen, harpsichord

Toccata decima
Cento partite sopra passacagli
Canzona terza
Toccata nona
Capriccio sopra la Bassa Fiamenga
Toccata nona
Canzon terza detta La Crivelli
Partite 14 sopra l’Aria della Romanesca


Frescobaldi by van Asperen
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Frans Brüggen: works for recorder

Jacques-Martin Hotteterre: Suite for two recorders
Diogenio Bigaglia: Sonata in a minor for recorder
Andrew Parcham: Solo in G for recorder and basso continuo
Jacob Jan van Eyck: Engels Nachtegaeltje for recorder solo
Johann Christoph Pepusch: Sonata #4 in F for alto recorder and basso continuo
François Couperin: L’espangnole from Les nations
Georg Philip Telemann: Suite in F for solo violin, strings, two flutes, two oboes, two horns, kettledrums and basso continuo

with
Kees Boeke, recorder
Anner Bylsma, violoncello
Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, viola da gamba
Quadro Amsterdam
Concerto Amsterdam
Jaap Schröder, violin

By 1975, when Telefunken released this two-disc set, Brüggen had already made a name for himself as a hot young recorder soloist. Here he showed his abilities in musicology and ensemble-playing by offering rare and unusual repertoire and performances with some of the best musicians in northern Europe. The recording was rereleased as cassettes in 1985, from which this archive was ripped.


Brüggen double album 1975
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Giovanni Picchi: harpsichord works

Ton Koopman, harpsichord
(copy of Stephanini 17th c.)

Toccata
Ballo detto il Picchi
Ballo ongaro
Padoana ditta la Ongara
Pass’e mezzo antico de sei parti
Saltarello del ditto Pass’e mezzo
Todesca
Ballo ditto il Stefanin
Ballo alla polacha

Picchi was so influential in the development of Renaissance keyboard music that he even appears in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. The recording is a scant thirty minutes long but the pieces are sprightly and the playing is classic Koopman.


Picchi by Koopman
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Antoine Forqueray père: pièces de viole

Suite nº 1 in d minor
Suite nº 2 in G major

Jordi Savall, bass viola da gamba (1697)
Christopher Coin, bass viola da gamba
Ton Koopman, harpsichord (1729)

Forqueray (1672–1745) was the gamba soloist of his day. His two suites, written for the court of the Duke of Orléans, are performed here on instruments that are contemporary with the music.


Forqueray viola da gamba
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Herbert Tachezi: Renaissance organ music from Spain, Italy, and Germany

Tomás de Santa María: Ocho fantasías por los ocho tonos
Enríquez de Valderrábano: Fantasía primero grado
Antonio de Cabezón: Diferences sobre el canto llano del caballero
Luis de Milán: Pavana y galiarda
Claudio Merulo: Toccata
Vincenzo Pellegrini: Canzona per organo (francese) «La Serpentina»
Michael Praetorius: O lux beata trinitas
Paul Hofhaimer: Recordare
Johannes Kotter: Salve regina
Christian Erbach: Ricercar secundi toni

Tachezi had an encyclopedic understanding of Renaissance keyboard music. Here he offers a broad, well-chosen program to show off the wide range of the Ebert organ in Innsbruch, Austria, an unusual instrument in that it handles both Spanish and German registrations effectively.


Tachezi Renaissance organ
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François du Fault: lute works

Suite in c minor
Suite in a minor
Suite in g minor
Suite in C major
Pavane in e minor

Hopkinson Smith, one of the movers and shakers of the original-instrument movement, performing on a Venetian lute made in 1644. Little is known about the composer, who was a contemporary of the lute in this recording, yet his writing is sophisticated and idiomatic.


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Canto Antiguo

Music from the Spanish Middle Ages and Renaissance

Sacred and secular music from the codeces from the Composela pilgrimage, the Cántigas de Santa María, and the cancioneros of the great palaces. Canto Antiguo included a former member of Noah Greenberg's New York Pro Musica and a music professor from Cal State Fullerton.

When this recording came out, in 1977, its musicians (from the cultural wastelands of southern California) were overshadowed by much glitzier European performers, such as the Early Music Consort of London and Studio für Alte Musik, and its improvisatory sound was not well-received by scholars. Time has since vindicated this interesting recording: today's performers of early Spanish music not only insist on true improvisation, they also embrace the Sephardic and Mozarabic musical influences that audiences in the 1970s did not appreciate.

The bright sound of this recording is surprisingly modern because the microphones were placed in an experimentally close X-Y pattern. The only anomaly was the group's countertenor, who projected toward each microphone alternatively just as he did to live audiences.

Canto Antiguo
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John Dowland lute pieces

Fantasies and dances for the lute performed by Joseph Bacon

Thirteen pieces for solo lute, some familiar, others not, originally recorded in 1975 by 1750 Arch Records, which was a boutique label located at that address in Berkeley, California. Reissued in 1982 on audiocassette by the Musical Heritage Society. Bacon was a guitarist, lutenist, painter, and sculptor who lived in San Francisco; he released three recordings.

Joseph Bacon plays Dowland
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