[VIHUELA] Re: Imprimatur

[thomas schall]

Hi Az,

I recommend Casanova - very much lute music there ...
"Le Roi qui Dance " has a nice soundtrack, too as well as the 
Farinelli-Movie - this one is really great!
I was terribly disappointed by "Da Vinci Code" ...

best wishes
Thomas
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From: "Azalais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Monica Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:18 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Imprimatur


Thank you for me reminding me!  I started "Imprimatur" (in french) last 
year
on vacation. I got about a hundred pages into it, still yearning for more
from De Visee, and forgot about it when I got home...  I think it's 
probably
still in my carry-on bag!  (I would have preferred more Tous les Matins 
and
less Da Vinci Code)  With a decent soundtrack, it might make a better
movie...  (Vatel and Le Roi qui Dance were fun.)  For best performance by 
a
baroque guitarist in harlequin costume (among many other wonderful
vignettes), my award goes to the DVD of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, music by
Vincent Dumestre... It's a real gem!

Have you read "Music and Silence" by Rose Tremain (about a lutenist)? or 
any
of the many trashy courtesan-themed books?

For vihuelists (viola?),  The Cardinal's Red Hat was also a fascinating
read...

The book/film I'm waiting for is one based loosely on a fictionalized
biography of Santiago de Murcia... Would anyone care to collaborate on
writing one?  :)

Trovatrice


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Monica Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

I wonder whether many people on this list have read "Imprimatur" by Rita
Monaldi and Francesco Sorti.   It features De Visee - playing a 
six-string
guitar - and the castrato singer Atto Melani - a sort of Da Vinci Code 
meets
Tous les Matins du Monde.

It is now available in English translation - and not to be missed!  I
wonder whether it will be made into a film.

Monica
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