十七與十八世紀的英國銅管音樂名曲集 (世界首度CD發行)

這份發行收錄L’Oiseau-Lyre所發行兩張最著名的銅管音樂作品集.銅管音樂愛好者必收的重量級發行!
 
Two L’Oiseau-Lyre albums of English brass music from the 17th and 18th centuries – The Royal Brass Music of King James I and English Baroque Trumpet Concertos – newly compiled and remastered and issued on CD for the first time.
 
With this and several other albums issued in 2019, Eloquence celebrates the art of Thurston Dart, the harpsichordist, conductor and editor who played a leading role in the early-music revival in postwar Britain. After his death in 1971 at the age of just 49, his fellow harpsichordist Igor Kipnis paid fulsome tribute to ‘a man of many parts’, whose 1954 volume on The Interpretation of Music had attained testamentary authority among his fellow musicians, matched by the skill, style and flourish of his many recordings: ‘He was the ideal musicologist-performer.’
 
In 1960 Dart convened and directed a six-strong ensemble of trumpets and trombones to record a sequence of music written for performance at the court of King James I by a twenty-piece band of sackbuts and cornetts known as the Royal Wind Music. Part-books of their repertoire were edited and in some cases reconstructed by Dart and his colleague Trevor Jones, and the result is a splendid compilation of dances and fanfares by members of the king’s musical retinue including the violist and lutenist ‘Giovanni Coprario’ who, born in London in 1570 as John Cooper, changed his name in the early seventeenth century, doubtless to add foreign lustre to his reputation.
 
Dart’s ad hoc ensemble was led by the legendary French trumpeter Maurice André who, four years previously, had taken centre-stage to record one of the first concerto albums in his long and distinguished career. The headline name in this trio of ‘English Baroque Trumpet Concertos’ is Jeremiah Clarke, whose successful career came to an abrupt and tragic end in his early 30s with his suicide in 1707. The nine movements of his Suite in D major for trumpet, strings and winds were also reconstructed for this recording, and they include the Trumpet Voluntary (sometimes known as the Prince of Denmark’s March) to which countless brides have walked down the aisle. The names of Richard Mudge and Capel Bond are far less known than they deserve to be: musicians of the English Midlands, they each left hardly more than a single collection of six concertos. In these examples edited by Gerald Finzi, they nonetheless demonstrate high craftsmanship in the Italian style and a fine awareness of the then-modern, ‘galant’ mode.
 
曲目:
THE ROYAL BRASS MUSIC OF KING JAMES I
 
1 SIMPSON: Intrada
2 HARDING: Almande
3 HOLBORNE: Coranto: The Faerie Round
4 LEETHERLAND: Pavan
5 GUY: Almande No. 13
6 HOLBORNE: The Choice
7 BASSANO: Fantasia
8 FARNABY: Almande
9 HOLBORNE: Galliard
10 JOHNSON: Almande No. 7
11 HOLBORNE: Coranto: As it Fell on Holie Eve
12 COPRARIO: Fantasia No. 76
13 FERRABOSCO: Almande No. 5
14 DERING: Fantasia
15 LUPO: Almande
16 BASSANO: Pavan No. 16
17 HOLBORNE: The Fruit of Love
18 FERRABOSCO: Pavan
19 FERRABOSCO: Alman
Maurice André, Jean Pirot, trumpets
Maurice Suzan, Henri Arqué, Camille Verdier, Bernard Gallot, trombones
Thurston Dart
 
ENGLISH BAROQUE TRUMPET MUSIC
20–22 MUDGE Trumpet Concerto No. 1 in D major
23–31 CLARKE Suite in D major
32–34 BOND Trumpet Concerto No. 1 in D major
Maurice André, trumpet
Ensemble Orchestral de L’Oiseau-Lyre
Pierre Colombo
 
FIRST CD RELEASE ON DECCA
 
Recordings: Paris, France, 24 May 1956 (Mudge, Clarke, Bond); Centre d’enregistrement des Champs-Elysées, Paris, France, February 1958 (Simpson, Harding, Holborne, Leetherland, Guy, Bassano, Farnaby, Johnson, Coprario, Ferrabosco, Dering, Lupo)
Original L’Oiseau-Lyre LP Releases: SOL 60019 (Simpson, Harding, Holborne, Leetherland, Guy, Bassano, Farnaby, Johnson, Coprario, Ferrabosco, Dering, Lupo); OL 50137 (Mudge, Clarke, Bond)