Well by generally accepted I mean by the generality (ie for the most part) of keyboard players not necessarily all of them - and to be fair I did put in the rider that all was not perfect even in the harpsichord continuo world...........
MH --- On Fri, 1/4/11, Roman Turovsky <[email protected]> wrote: From: Roman Turovsky <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LUTE] Continuo and the Foscarini Experience To: "Martyn Hodgson" <[email protected]>, "Christopher Wilke" <[email protected]> Cc: "Lutelist" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, 1 April, 2011, 15:02 If you ever see, say, Guido Morini doing live continuo you'd realize that there are no generally acceptable limits for keyboard continuo practice. RT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martyn Hodgson" <[1][email protected]> To: "Christopher Wilke" <[2][email protected]> Cc: "Lutelist" <[3][email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 9:55 AM Subject: [LUTE] Continuo and the Foscarini Experience > > > Interesting thoughts Chris - but I don't think people would say 'great > continuo playing' if one busked in the style of, say, Scott Joplin in, > say, a Bach Mass setting. In fact, the evidence is not as scant as you > suggest and in practice there are generally acceptable limits for > keyboard continuo practice (often based on what we know of historical > practice). As far as I understand from the discussion, the problem is > that the 'Foscarini Experience' performance is so far away from what > any audience might have heard ('experienced') at the time as to be a > parody, or rather a travesty, of what the composer may have had in > mind. > > Of course all is not perfect even in the keyboard continuo world and > some harpsichord players seem to find it hard to resist things like > heavy regular arpeggiation in, say, a Vivaldi slow movement - a sort of > grafted on harpsichord concerto but it's still much better than with > the lute/theorbo where electronic amplification of the individual > instrument can often be the norm thus allowing a sort of fancy lute > song style accompaniment which in practice would be inaudible without > the amplification. > > This sort of 'experience' by FE is surely an admission of artistic > defeat rather than a triumph of individualism - by pandering to current > popular music fashions (much simple rhythmic movement and a lot of > thrashing about) it seems as though the ensemble is trying to generate > sales by satisfying the lowest common denominator - nothing > intrinsically wrong with this of course, but hackles must rise when > it's promoted as being close to what was heard at the time.... > > MH > --- On Fri, 1/4/11, Christopher Wilke <[4][email protected]> wrote: > > From: Christopher Wilke <[5][email protected]> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Foscarini Experience again > To: "Stuart Walsh" <[6][email protected]>, "Monica Hall" > <[7][email protected]> > Cc: "Lutelist" <[8][email protected]> > Date: Friday, 1 April, 2011, 13:58 > > --- On Fri, 4/1/11, Monica Hall <[1][9][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" > <[2][10][email protected]> > > Cc: "Lutelist" <[3][11][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: > > >> > > >> [4][12]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 > > >>> [5][13]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [6][14]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. [15]http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected] > 2. [16]http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected] > 3. [17]http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected] > 4. [18]http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Accent/ACC24173#listen > 5. [19]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > 6. 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