>From Meic - another to follow Monica
----- Original Message ----- From: Meic Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:59 PM Subject: RE: Reminder > Hi Monica > > Here's the review of Die Spinne im Netz, with RTF file attached. The review > of the German lute song disc should be with you tomorrow - I keep finding > new things in it and changing my mind about what i want to say! > > All the best > > Meic > > Die Spinne im Netz > Music from Nuremburg prints of the 16th century > Musicke & Mirth Julian Podger (tenor) > Raumklang RK 2305 > > The spider in the web was the city of Nuremburg, and this CD follows a > rather original plan. Rather than anthologising music from a particular > court or composer, the music is chosen from publications in Nuremburg > between 1534 and 1552, and the booklet includes an informative essay on > early musical publication techniques. Publishers include Neusidler and > Gerle. Apparently at some of the viol music was published in (German) > tablature a well as the lute parts. > Musicke & Mirth are essentially a viol consort, here augmented by Julian > Podger's well-judged tenor and the lute playing of Wim Maeseele, a name new > to me but one to watch out for. He brings out counterpoint particularly > well. The group describe themselves as playing "historically adequate" > instruments, an understatement given that the viols are a matched set by > Robert Foster based on a painting of 1540 and the lute is a Barber& Harris > after Fugger 1566, strung I think (from the gorgeous sound of it), with > gut. The viols are in the German style, with steeply sloping shoulders and > narrow ribs: this gives the sound more attack than depth, and the tone is > very homogeneous across the whole bass-treble viol range. The ensemble's > intonation is faultless throughout. > The composer most represented is Ludwig Senfl, with six pieces. Agricola, > Ghiselin and Isaac have two each, Barbireau, Buchner, Obrecht, Antoine de > Fevin and Dietrich are present once each, and there are eight anonymous > items. There are lute solos, a prelude by Francesco da Milano, and > Neusidler's version of Elslein liebste Elslein mein, the first of four > successive and very different settings of Elslein that finish the album. > Everything on the reocord is worth listening to, but no single track stands > out. The music never reaches the profundity the later English consort could > touch, but it has considerable charm. The performances are universally > excellent, and in some of the lighter items the group demonstrate a > playfulness I have never experienced from viol ensembles before. That alone > makes it worth hearing. > > Meic Goodyear > > > > >From: "Monica Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Meic Goodyear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Reminder > >Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:32:46 +0100 > > > >Reviews for the next issue of Lute News are due on 1st. October. Hope you > >have them ready! > > > >Monica > > -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
