Andrea Falconieri: La Suave Melodia

Andrea Falconieri: La Suave Melodia

Andrea Falconieri: La Suave Melodia

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Composer: Andrea Falconieri
Composer: Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger
Composer: Giulio Banfi
Composer: Girolamo Frescobaldi
Composer: Francesco Corbetta
Composer: Alessandro Piccinini
Composer: Anonymous
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-07-08
Music Label: Stradivarius
Soundtracks:

Gallarda
Riñen y pelean entre Berzebillo con Satansillo, y Caruf
La suave melodia y su corrente: La suave melodia
La suave melodia y su corrente: Sua corrente
Il Spiritillo Brando
Sarabanda (from Libro Quatro d'Intavolatura di Chitarone)
Canario, for guitar & theorbo
Spagnoletto
Ruggero
La Benedetta, for guitar, theorbo & lute
Sinfonia seconda
Il primo libro della canzoni ... No.25, Canzon Seconda, a 3, due bassi, e canto, for instruments
Sinfonia à 2, for guitar & virginal
Corriente dicha la cuella
Brando d'Abril
In partitura, il primo libro della canzoni ... No.8, basso solo, 'detta l'Ambitsiosa', for instruments
Brando dicho El Melo
Occhietti amati
Alemana dicha la Villega, for guitar, theorbo & lute
Sonata seconda arpeggiata, for guitar & theorbo
Kapsberger for chitarrone
La Monarca
Gallarda d'arroyo
Toccata No. 1 (from Intavolatura di Liuto)
Corrente 1, for lute (from Intavolatura di Liuto)
Bertoncina, sua Corrente: Bertoncina
Bertoncina, sua Corrente: Sua corrente
Corrente detta l'avellina
E viver e morir (from Libro primo di Villanelle)

Music reviews of Andrea Falconieri: La Suave Melodia

Music Review: Enjoyable lute music
Rating: 4 Stars

This disc of 16th Century lute music by and associated with Falconieri is an enjoyable collection and has a joyful vigour about it which is very infectious. The music is presented in arrangements for archlute, baroque guitar and citarrone and is well played by three very accomplished musicians. I have recordings of works by several of the composers on this disc, but not by Falconieri himself, and it is very good to have him so well played here.

How you respond to this disc will depend on your individual taste, I suspect. For me, it was all just a bit over-passionate and romantic in feel, and while there is certainly a place for of passion and romance in this music it also needs to be allowed to breathe so that the melodic and contrapuntal complexities which are the delight of Baroque music can really shine through. As an example, Kapsberger's Toccata Seconda Arpeggiata is played at breakneck speed in a deluge of notes and with very significant stretching of the tempo. I far prefer Paul O'Dette's approach on his fabulous Kapsberger disc which is much steadier and more measured (taking nearly three minutes to Lorenzo Micheli's two here), giving a real feel for the breadth and beauty of a lovely piece. I felt similarly about the approach to Piccinini and prefer Contini and Torelli's excellent double CD on Brilliant Classics.

I don't want to be too critical, and certainly wouldn't want to put anyone off this disc. It is a well played, well recorded disc of enjoyable music and I am glad to have it, especially for the Falconieri pieces. It's just that I'm not sure this will become a regularly played favourite for me as the O'Dette and Contini/Torelli discs have done, so I offer it a qualified recommendation.

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