Lassus, Palestrina: Motetti, Madrigali e Canzoni diminuiti
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Performer: Francois FaucheComposer: Emanuel Adriaenssen
Composer: Giovanni Bassano
Composer: Giovanni Battista Bovicelli
Composer: John Dowland
Composer: Christian Erbach
Composer: Orlande de Lassus
Composer: Peter Philips
Composer: Francesco Rognoni
Composer: Bartolome de Selma y Salaverde
Composer: Giovanni Antonio Terzi
Performer: Jean Tubery
Performer: Ensemble la Fenice
Performer: Christina Pluhar
Performer: Matthias Spaeter
Performer: Jean-Marc Aymes
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-01-01
Music Label: Ricercar
Soundtracks:
- Io son ferito - Giovanni Palestrina
- Vestiva i colli - Giovanni Palestrina
- Io son ferito - Giovanni Palestrina
- Io son ferito - Giovanni Palestrina
- Haec quae ter triplici - Orlando De Lassus
- Susanne un jour - Orlando De Lassus
- Divisions on 'Suzanne un jour' - Francesco Rognoni Taeggio
- Susanne un jour - Orlando De Lassus
- Bon jour mon coeur - Orlando De Lassus
- Fitzwilliam Virginal Bk: Bon Jour Mon Coeur di Orlando - Peter Philips
- Lachrimae or Seaven Teares: M. Bucton his Galiard - John Dowland
- Et d'ou venez vous, madame Lucette - Orlando De Lassus
- Pulchra es amica mea - Giovanni Palestrina
- Vestiva i colli - Giovanni Palestrina
- Pulchra es amica mea - Giovanni Palestrina
Music reviews of Lassus, Palestrina: Motetti, Madrigali e Canzoni diminuiti
Music Review: Florid Virtuosity
Rating: 4 Stars
Pier Luigi de Palestrina and Orlando Lassus died the same year, 1594, and both would be rolling in their marble tombs to hear that anyone supposes this music is theirs. Palestrina in Rome and Lassus in Germany were the supreme old guard of the austere, intellectual polyphony of the Renaissance. Palestrina in particular was esteemed by the purists of the Counterreformation for his simplicity and devotion to the clearest declamation of text. He wrote next to nothing for instruments, not even organ or harpsichord in support of his choral music. So what's going on here?
The fifteen pieces on this CD come chiefly from ornamentation manuals by composers of the next generation - Bovicelli, De Selma, Rognoni, Bassano, and others - who appropriated motets and madrigals by the old masters to be used as examples of their own surperior taste and skill. This, oh listeners, is the precise moment of musical history when the Renaissance morphed into the Baroque, literally writing over the flowing profundity of one with the florid exuberance of the other.
Modern listeners often ask how musicologists and performers can talk about authenticity of technique and style when there are of course no recordings of music from the 16th or 17th Centuries. One way to know is to read the manuals! There were instructional books in print for instrumentalists - especially cornettists and viola da gambists - on how to tongue, how to phrase, and especially how to improvise ornamentation. Pages and pages of precise examples of arpeggiated cadences and intervals fill the pages of Ganassi for recorder flutes), Ortiz for gambists, and the current forgottem masters for musicians at large.
La Fenice has presented us with a recital of these exercises in taste and virtuosity. Modern ears, I think, will hear more of the latter than the former. These little pieces are as excessive, musically, as the bows and ribbons on an ante-bellum belle's bonnet. But they're a lot of fun, both to play and to hear when played by a world-class virtuoso like Jean Tubery, the heart of La Fenice. Tubery's instruments are the cornetto, the mute cornetto, and the recorder, all of which respond to the player's tongue and fingers flying over 32nd and 64th notes fast enough to make a Pentium 4 computer chip sqeak for help. Tubery's cornetto is not a brass instrument. It's a tapered wooden tube about the size and shape of an antelope horn, with seven finger holes and a tiny cup moutpiece. The cornetto was the show-off virtuoso instrument of the early Baroque, to be heard at its most eloquent in the music of Gabrieli, Monteverdi, and Schuetz. In this performance, Tubery is supported by a harpist, a lutenist, and a keyboardist, all very fine players capable of taking their licks at the fastball ornamental figures. They are joined, unfortunately, on two of the Lassus-based exercises by Francois Fauche, a capable bass singer who just can't turn the trick on these hyper-gymnastic musical figures. Those two tracks cry out to be skipped; that's why I've given the CD only four stars. This isn't great music in itself. It wasn't intended to be performance material at all. But Tubery's playing is so spectacular that any time he picks up his horn, I'm ready to listen.
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