On 13 June 2010 05:26, Ed Durbrow <[1]edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp> wrote:
Where are you folks hearing these samples? Available on the net?
You
all bought the CD?
I bought the mp3 download from amazon UK. I'd rather get a CD (sleeve
notes etc) but the CD was three times as expensive from just one dealer
with an 88% rating.
7-L-/euros is not expensive and I was intrigued to hear it. According
to some people, there are issues with Conte's playing but - apart from
some far too slow renditions - I couln't hear them. I think that I have
more of an issue with Corbetta - or this part of Corbetta's oeuvre -
than Conte's playing of it.
Stuart
On Jun 6, 2010, at 4:14 AM, Stuart Walsh wrote:
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.
For some reason the first suite reminds me of a very old recording
of
Schaffer's on Baroque lute of a suite in G minor by Bittner.
Someone said the recording is 'close' and you can hear fingers on
strings - other than playing the notes! - and indeed the man
himself
breathing. (My wife thinks he looks like the actor, Patrick
Stewart).
He surely gets a very nice sound from the guitar and his brushing
of
chords is very delicate (some players are rather raspy) and lots
of
ornaments. The Prelude of this first suite is quite slow with
familiar
little phrases but Rosario gives his all. The Allemande has a
little
percussive sound at the beginning which happens at the repeat?
Seems
very well played to me. The Courante sounds fine to me too but I
agree
with others that the Sarabande is too slow. The Baroque lute can
be
played super slow (as it were) but I'm not sure this very slow
tempo
suits the guitar, or even this particular sarabande. A fine gigue
(which is reminiscent of something else) and a swingless
Passacaille to
end.
Stuart
Monica
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