Detailed Information

  • Artist: Veronique Musson-Gonneaud, Doppel-Harfe
  • Label: Brilliant, DDD, 2011
  • Order number: 2300303
  • Release date: 30.3.2012
  1. 1 Cancion francesca Start
  2. 2 Tiento primo tono Start
  3. 3 Differencias sobre el canto Ilano del Caballero Start
  4. 4 Tiento del quarto tonon sobre "Malheur me bat" Start
  5. 5 Differencias sobre la gallarda milanesa Start
  6. 6 Tiento para harpa o organo Start
  7. 7 Anchor que col partire Start
  8. 8 Pavana Start
  9. 9 Quien Ilamo al partir partir Start
  10. 10 Mort m'a privé pas sa cruelle envie Start
  11. 11 Tres sobre el canto Ilano de la alta Start
  12. 12 Tiento Cuarto tono Start
  13. 13 Pour un plaisir Start
  14. 14 Romance: Para quien crie yo cabellos Start
  15. 15 Tiento secondo tono Start
  16. 16 Je suis aymé de la plus belle Start
  17. 17 Cinque differencias sobre Las Vacas Start
  18. 18 Doulce memoire Start

Product Information

During the mid-16th century in Spain, it became increasingly common for collections of music to include tablature that would enable performers of other polyphonic instruments to perform the repertoire. With the recent addition of chromatic strings, the harp was one such mechanism to benefit from this, and its presentation in this beautifully performed compilation of works offers a fascinating glimpse into the rich world of Iberian Renaissance music making.

The compositions detailed in this recording are taken from three separate sources of the period: books by Mudarra, Venegas de Henestrosa and Antonio de Cabezón. While Mudarra's work 'for harp or organ' is unique in that it's the closest thing we have to genuine 16th-century harp music, the compilation focuses primarily on the keyboard works of Antonio de Cabezón and includes intabulations (arrangements of chansons and madrigals originally written by some of the most renowned mid-century composers), dances, variations and tientos -- freely-composed polyphonic fantasias.

Not only does the recording introduce us to the different genres of the period, revealing an instrument that had grown 'as perfect as the clavichord', it honours the work of a man who was in fact one of the foremost keyboard performers and composers of his time. Surveying a lesser-known facet of one of the most famous periods in music history, this collection is a must-buy for the Renaissance connoisseur.

Press comments

,,Wenn man sich das „Tiento Primo tono“ oder das im „Quarto tono“ auf dem schnarrenden Orgelpositiv vorstellt oder auf der klangarmen Vihuela, dann schätzt man den fülligen Klang der Harfe und wie sie hier gespielt wird: immer mit einer Liebe zur ausschweifenden, zugleich prägnanten Tongebung." (FonoForum, Juli 2012)

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