But this quote from the Echo de Paris album:
"Foscarini's remarkably delicate Zarabande brings to an end what is
such an enjoyable recital." International Record Review, May 2007
is problematic if the Zarabande, as they play it, bears little
resemblance to what exists in Foscarini.
I dug out the CD. The piece is on p.120 of Fosco's book. What Pitzl plays
first on his own does resemble what appears in Fosco more or less but the
variation which follows when the others join in doesn't although it may be
inspired by the Redopre della Corrente which follows.
In a way they are not taking credit for what they are contributing
themselves. Strange world really. What the uninitiated don't perhaps
understand is how sketchy the original sources are....
Monica
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Walsh"
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: Foscarini Experience again
On 31/03/2011 22:08, Stuart Walsh wrote:
On 31/03/2011 19:53, Monica Hall wrote:
I came across this CD by the group Foscarini Experience with
the title
"Bon voyage" some time ago.
I looked around to see if I could hear some of the tracks as
samples. Couldn't find anything but I did find an album by 'Private
Musicke' (who played at Edinburgh last year with an opera singer)
and there are some samples from this album, Echo de Paris:
[3]http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Accent/ACC24173#listen
It's interesting that the one solo of Corbetta's and the several of
Bartolotti are played actually as solos - very fluently (but
perhaps, at the gushing rather than the pinched, end of the
spectrum) whereas Foscarini (and Briceno) get a complete makeover.
Actually playing through Foscarini you struggle to find anything
musically coherent at all - but on this album, his (ahem) music
bursts forth as colourful, radiant and beguilingly tuneful.
(i.e. this is all rather curious...where did all these arrangements
come from - and arrangements of what in the first place?)
Stuart
In the liner notes it mentions an
illustration which features Foscarini on a wagon playing the
lute
together with a girl with a triangle and a violone player which
apparently dates from 1615 and is part of an illustration of a
feast
held for the Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia, the wife of the
Archduke Albert.
Does anyone know anything about this illustration and whether
the
lutenist is clearly identified as Foscarini. I have done a bit
of
surfing the net but haven't found any trace of it.
Monica
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