--- On Fri, 4/1/11, Monica Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think really these people really make any attempt > to play the music in a "historically informed way"..or have > any relevant knowledge at all. > > Everyone is just fooled by their virtuosity. > > Cynically > > Monica >
I think we have to make a distinction between the scholarly side of things and the artistic aspect. "Historically informed" is not a very helpful critical term. Deciding who is "historically informed-er" tells us little about the artistic worth of the performance. I don't think it is necessarily invalid for a performer, in light of scant historical evidence, to bring in aspects of performance done is accord with modern principles (i.e. improvisation) as a substitute for essential subjects treated only ambiguously in the texts. After all, if you're one of the well-respected harpsichord players in any number of baroque ensembles, they call this sort of thing "great continuo playing." Chris Christopher Wilke Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer www.christopherwilke.com > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Walsh" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Lutelist" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 9:06 AM > 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: > >> > >> 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 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> > >>> > >>> To get on or off this list see list > information at > >>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
