It seems to be available on CD over here.
I like Jacob Lindberg's recording especially as he has included one of the
suites from the 1648 book which I play myself. I wish more people would
play the earlier stuff. The only problem I find is that the recording
sounds rather foggy. It's the same with some of his other recordings.
Whether it is BIS or the fact that they were made several years ago I don't
know.
Yes - the sarabandes are rather slow but at least one of these forms part
of the suite commemorating the death of Madame d'Orleans so you wouldn't
expect it to go with a swing.
I think things like this are debatable - and this is just my personal
prejudice - but for various reasons I don't thing pieces work terribly well
on the baroque guitar played at breakneck speed. For me on this recording
it was the courantes which were most problematic. Because they are quite
complex they don't work as well as e.g. the gigues which are basically in 2
parts. At least some sources advise chosing a speed which matches your
ability - always very slow in my case.
And not long ago I read quite a long article - in the Times I think - in
which the writer suggested that the music wouldn't have been played at the
kind of speeds which are adopted today - in part in least because players
would not have developed the kind of technique necessary to achieve this.
One interesting point which he made was that today a modern symphony
orchestra would sight read a Haydn symphony perfectly whereas Haydn had to
have several rehearsals before the players got it right because they were
being asked to do things they had never done before. And nearer our own
time the first performance of Boulez "Le marteau sans maitre" wasn't a
success even after the players involved had had several rehearsals.
Apparently William Christie asked Boulez if he would like to hear the piece
played again as it was at the first performance and he said "No way -
players today can do it much better!"
And finally - the music in La guitarre royale is rather different from much
baroque guitar music and I don't think it needs to be played with the sort
of rhythmic precision which would be appropriate for De Visee.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "EUGENE BRAIG IV" <brai...@osu.edu>
To: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 3:42 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Corbetta
Rather exciting, in spite of the intimidating glower. Was this
released as CD as well? It's only available on US Amazon as mp3
download.
Personally, I also quite liked Lindberg's old recording on BIS,
sampling a bit of the whole of Corbetta's published output.
Best,
Eugene
----- Original Message -----
From: Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010 2:57 pm
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Corbetta
To: "Nelson, Jocelyn" <nels...@ecu.edu>
Cc: Vihuelalist <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> Well - he may look scary but he plays like an angel.
>
> Monica
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nelson, Jocelyn" <nels...@ecu.edu>
> To: "Stuart Walsh" <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>; "Monica Hall"
> <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
> Cc: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 6:02 PM
> Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Corbetta
>
>
> > : ) That is a scary looking picture, but I
> enjoyed the little bit of
> > samples that I heard.
> > Jocelyn
> >
> ___________________________________________________________________>
> > From: Stuart Walsh <[1]s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
> > Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 12:15:44 -0400
> > To: Monica Hall <[2]mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
> > Cc: Vihuelalist <[3]vihu...@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> > Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Corbetta
> > Monica Hall wrote:
> > > Don't know whether the rest of
> you have already noticed this but
> > Carpe
> > > Diem have recently released a
> beautiful recording of music from
> > > Corbetta's 1671 Guitarre
> royale played by Rosario Conte - the best
> > > recording available now
> Antonio Ligios recording is no longer
> > > available.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Monica
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > >
> > I just looked on Amazon UK. Is it called "Une
> larme" with a rather
> > fierce-looking chap on the CD cover who looks like
> he's going to bash
> > you over the head with his Baroque guitar?
> > Stuart
> > > To get on or off this list see list information at
> > > [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-
> admin/index.html> >
> > >
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> > References
> >
> > 1. file://localhost/net/people/lute-
> arc/s.wa...@ntlworld.com> 2.
> file://localhost/net/people/lute-arc/mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk
> > 3. file://localhost/net/people/lute-
> arc/vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu> 4.
> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
> >
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