The Renaissance Album
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Composer: Robert (ii) BallardComposer: John Dowland
Composer: Antony Holborne
Composer: Luis de Milan
Composer: Francesco Canova da Milano
Composer: Simone Molinaro
Composer: Alonso de Mudarra
Composer: Luys de Narvaez
Composer: Hans Neusidler
Composer: Peter Philips
Composer: Arnolt Schlick
Performer: G?ran S?llscher
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Pavana
- Gallarda
- Pavan
- The Galliard
- [Unspecified] Fantasia in C major
- Ballo detto "Il Conte Orlando" & Saltarello del predetto ballo
- Pavana V & VI
Music reviews of The Renaissance Album
Music Review: Nice recital, academic performance
Rating: 4 Stars
Although recording the guitar should not have the same purse strings attachment that has all but obliterated the past steady stream of classical orchestral recordings, the golden times in which the likes of Bream, Williams and Yepes each released stellar albums are reason for guitar nostalgia.
Thanks to his status as DG lead guitar player, Sollscher still releases at a rate of one album every one or two years. While my perspective may be a little different from my fellow reviewers, I join them in not being blown away by this album.
Bream and Yepes were instrumental in bringing the lute and vihuela works from the once forgotten British and Spanish past to a broader audience and both made seminal recordings, many of which can still be bought at great value. In this album, Sollscher revisits many of their venues.
Here he stays clear from most of the highly manieristic trappings of the so-called "authentic" movement to give a rather plain performance on an 11 string guitar that has a timbre that approaches that of the renaissance lute well, yet allows unamplified use in recitals in the average modern concert hall.
While all is stylish, musical and technically well executed many of the performances are bland compared te recordings by the aforementioned greats. I will give two examples.
The recital starts with Mudarra's "Fantas?a que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico" that was popularized by Sollscher's DG colleague Yepes. In the latter's hands this piece, which was written as an hommage to the then unsurpassed harp virtuoso Ludovico, has loads of tension that gets released in the harp passage work at the end of the piece. In Sollsher's hands, this colorfull piece is plain vanilla and would make many novices wonder why this composer should still be played after many centuries.
More or less the same applies for what John Dopwland described as his musical autobiography "Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens" (always Dowland, always sad). In Bream's hands this piece becomes a dramatic gem with the same power as a late Brahms intermezzo. Here it's gentle and chaste, but something of a waste.
Fortunately, some other works like Dowland's celebrated Fantasy sound more convincing, but never does this album reach the strength of Sollscher's previous 11-string Baroque.
PS.
Without too much knowledge of music history a bunch of "authentics" are polluting much of the Amazonian discourse with their uninformed critiques. Such is also the case here. While Dowland played the renaissance lute, other composers included in this album, among them Mudarra, performed their music on a vihuela. Those interested in the original instrument and the himalaya's of musical interpretation need not look any further than the great Julian Bream.
Description of The Renaissance Album
This New Project from Goran Sollscher is a Follow-up to his Previous CD, the Highly Successful 'eleven-string Baroque'. With the Balanced Sound of Sollscher's Eleven-string Guitar Combined with the Baroque Repertoire, the Album Spoke to Not Only his Fans but also a Wider Audience Craving Relaxing Music and Congenial Guitar Sounds. In this Same Spirit, Sollscher's Upcoming Renaissance Album Can Be Marketed to a Wide Audience Including Both his Fans and New Listeners in Search of Dreamy, Soothing Renaissance Melodies. The Stylish Cover Artwork Emphasizes Both the Freshness and Universality of Sollscher's Art.the Album Contains Renaissance Lute Masterpieces by Various Composers from Italy, Spain, Germany, France and England, the Most Popular of which were Written by John Dowland. S?llscher Delivers a Dozen of Tracks by Dowland, a Composer who Embodies the 'golden Age' of English Lute Music.General CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Chamber Music > General
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( D ) > Dowland, John
- ( H ) > Holborne, Anthony
- Historical Periods > Classical (c.1770-1830) > Forms & Genres > Chamber Music
- Early Music
- Renaissance (c.1450-1600) > Ballets & Dances
- Instruments > Strings > Guitar
- Lute
- Dowland, John - Works by Dowland
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