It was love at first sight when Mathilde Vialle and Thibaut Roussel first encountered the English bass viol and Venetian archlute preserved at Paris’s Museum of Music, now heard in this programme of English music from the second half of the seventeenth century, much of it never recorded before. The exceptional sonorities of their two period instruments are complemented by the virginal of Ronan Khalil and the tenor voice of Zachary Wilder. An album as subtle as it is sublime!
The Last Rose
ANONYMOUS
Suite in G minor / Sol mineur
· I. Praeludium lente (27) (2'07)
· II. Aria (27) (1'52)
· III. Courant (27) (2'08)
· Greensleeves (5'04)
JOHN PLAYFORD (1623-ca. 1686)
· Bonny Brow (Musick's Recreation on the viol, lyra-way, London, 1682) (1'14)
ANONYMOUS
Suite in D minor / Ré mineur
· I. [Overture] (16a) (2'03)
· II. [Courante] (16a) (2'07)
JOHN COPRARIO (ca. 1570-1626)
· O grief (Songs of Mourning, London, 1613) (3'17)
TOBIAS HUME (ca. 1569-1645)
· The Spirit of Gambo (Captain Humes Poetical Musicke, London, 1607) (2'17)
ANONYMOUS
Suite in D majeur / Ré majeur
· I. Spinola almanda (7a) (1'51)
· II. Courante (7a) (1'10)
· III. Sarabande (8a) (3'20)
Attributed to THOMAS PRESTON (d. 1563)
· Uppon la mi re (London, British Library, Add.29996 - transcription for solo lute by Thibaut Roussel) (3'20)
JOHN BLOW (1649-1708)
· Tell me no more you love(Amphion Anglicus, London, 1700) (2'46)
ANTHONY POOLE (ca. 1629-1692)
· St Fortunatus (14a) (1'41)
· St Martina (15a) (1'00)
· Chacone (prima) * (3'31)
GIOVANNI GIROLAMO KAPSBERGER (ca. 1580-1651)
· Toccata VI (Libro Primo d’Intavolatura di Lauto, Rome, 1611) (3'34)
PIETRO REGGIO (1632-1685)
· To Corinna (Songs Set by Signior Pietro Reggio, London, 1680) (2'20)
FRANCIS WITHY (ca. 1645-1727)
· Divisions in G minor / Sol mineur(GB-Ob MS. Mus. Sch. C.61) (6'07)
HENRY PURCELL (1659-1695)
· Music for a while (Orpheus Britannicus, Book II, London, 1702) (4'27)
BENJAMIN HELY (ca. 1654-ca. 1719)
· A Scotch tune (The Compleat Violist, London, ca. 1699) (2'00)
ANONYMOUS
Borgia
· I. [Praeludium] (24) (1'05)
· II. [Corant] (24) (1'03)
· III. [Aria] (24) (3'04)
· Tis the last rose of summer (arranged and harmonised by Thibaut Roussel and Mathilde Vialle) (4'44)
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