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A feast of melancholia: three L’Oiseau Lyre albums of early English chamber music from the dawn of the period-performance era, newly remastered and compiled together for the first time with much material new to CD.
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.’
Thurston Dart prepared the performing editions of nearly all the music on this 2CD compilation, but he struck a fine balance between scholarly rectitude, practical concerns and a performer’s instincts. For the 1957 album of Lachrymae he rearranged Dowland’s original sequence of seven linked pavans (all in the same key) followed by 14 other pieces, and produced instead an extended and varied dance-suite, representing the introvert and extrovert sides of the composer side by side. Mixing old and new instruments, he directed a modern string band playing with old-style bows, plus viols, lute and harpsichord.
From the mid-1950s also date the albums of ‘Jacobean Consort Music’ and ‘Dances from Shakespeare’s Time’ which feature secular tunes and dances by the likes of Gibbons, Holborne and Hume as well as lesser-known names such as Coprario and Brade, all drawn from a variety of sources – in the case of the Consort Music, the scholarly volumes of Musica Britannica in which Dart was a prime mover. Unavailable for decades, now receiving their first release on CD, they fill out our picture of Dart as, in the words of HC Robbins Landon, an excellent director and ‘a wizard at any keyboard’.
‘Neville Marriner manages [Coprario’s] effects with an uncanny skill and an admirable sense of what Jacobean taste might have been… This is splendid music, for the most part very well played.’ Gramophone, November 1956 (Jacobean Consort Music)
Title: Consort Music
Format: CD
Release Date: 13 Sep 2019
Artist: Thurston Dart
Sku: 2434825
Catalogue No: 4828574
Category: Classical
DISC 1
JOHN DOWLAND
1–21 Lachrimae, 1604
Philomusica of London
Thurston Dart
JACOBEAN CONSORT MUSIC
22–24 JOHN COPRARIO Suite for violin, bass viol and chamber organ
25 ANONYMOUS Miserere (Parthenia In-Violata)
26 JOHN WARD Ayre
27 THOMAS LUPO Fantasia
28–30 JOHN COPRARIO Suite for two violins, bass viol and chamber organ
DISC 2
1–3 JOHN COPRARIO Suite for violin, bass viol and chamber organ
4 TOBIAS HUME Captain Hume’s Galliard
5 JOHN COPRARIO Fantasia for violin, bass viol and continuo
6 TOBIAS HUME Captain Hume’s Lamentations
7 ORLANDO GIBBONS Galliard
Jacobean Ensemble
Thurston Dart
DANCES OF SHAKESPEARE’S TIME
8 JOHN DOWLAND Pavan
THOMAS SIMPSON
9 Ricercar
10 Alman
11 PHILIPS Passamezzo Pavan
ANTHONY HOLBORNE
12 Pavan ‘The Funerals’
13 Galliard
14 Alman: The Honie-suckle
15 Coranto ‘Heigh-Ho Holiday’
16 RICHARD FARRANT Four-Note Pavan
ROBERT JOHNSON
17 The Temporiser
18 The Witty Wanton
19 JOHN ADSON Ayre
20 ALFONSO FERRABOSCO JR. Four-Note Pavan
WILLIAM BRADE
21 Galliard
22 Alman
23 Coranto
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