Garden of Early Delights: music from the renaissance and early baroque periods
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GARDEN OF EARLY DELIGHTS
Garden of Early Delights: music from the renaissance and early baroque periods
Pamela Thorby (recorder) Andrew Lawrence-King (harp, psaltery)
[ Linn ECHO / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 10 August 2014
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'Garden of Early Delights is a mixed bouquet of diverse, joyous, unusual and eloquent pieces from the Renaissance and Early Baroque periods.
Performed by Pamela Thorby on recorders and Andrew Lawrence-King on harps and psaltery, these are two virtuosic musicians unsurpassed in their respective fields.
Originally released in 2008 'Garden of Early Delights' has been re-issued as part of Linn's ECHO series which offers a second chance to enjoy the best of the label's award-winning catalogue.
The garden of 16th and 17th century music brought forth a rich harvest of symbolism and literary associations - some of which are presented on this album.
The programme includes bursts of good humour in the treatment of van Eyck's popular variations, sensuous melancholy from Dowland contrasting with the formality of diminutions on favourite madrigals.
'Garden of Early Delights' includes solo pieces from both musicians, plus works that allow them to come together and showcase their considerable skills for musical interaction.
Pamela Thorby is one of the finest established recorder players the country has produced in recent times. She is most regularly heard on Karl Jenkins' fabulous Adiemus recordings making her possibly one of the most listened to recorder players in the world.
Andrew Lawrence-King is both a baroque-harp virtuoso and an imaginative continuo player. Travelling the world continually, he can often be heard in Jordi Savall's group, Hesperion XX, as well as in his own ensemble, The Harp Consort, or performing solo recitals.
Pamela Thorby and Andrew Lawrence-King merge their considerable experience of other genres to deliver a unique performance on an album that brings to life music full of surprise, beauty and delight.
"This recital puts bells on recorder player Pamela Thorby's already fine reputation, which she has steadily built through performances as a soloists and as a memeber of various distinguished period ensembles. Pamela Thorby's tone is silvery, alert and her intonation is impeccable"
BBC Music Magazine
"Whether on soprano, alto or tenor recorder, Pamela Thorby's tone has a limpid clarity which gives a crisp filigree-like quality to even the most fast and furious figurations...This crystalline sound is equally successful in conveying the melancholy expressiveness of slower and less highly ornamented items such as Van Eyck's arrangement of Caccini's Amarilli."
The Telegraph, 5th July 2008
Garden of Early Delights is a mixed bouquet of diverse, joyous, unusual and eloquent pieces from the Renaissance and Early Baroque periods. Performed by Pamela Thorby on recorders and Andrew Lawrence-King on harps and psaltery, these are two virtuosic musicians unsurpassed in their respective fields.
Tracks:
Bassano, G:
Susanne ung jour Motette from madrigali et canzone francese
Divisions on "Frais et gaillard" (madrigal by Clemens non Papa)
Castello:
Sonata sesta from 'Sonate concertate in stil moderno, libro secondo'
Dowland:
Sorrow, stay
Weepe you no more, sad fountaines
Eyck:
Wat zal men op den Avond doen
Derde, Doen Daphne d'over
Boffons Der Flutyen Lust-hof
Amarilli mia bella
Fontana:
Sonata sesta
Marini, B:
Passacalio
Per ogni sorte di strumento
Ortiz:
Recercada segunda from Tratado de glosas
Ricercada sobre Doulce memoire
Schop:
Lacrimae Pavan
