Palladian Ensemble - Nicola Matteis: Held by the Ears (2000)

Posted By: ArlegZ

Date: Sept. 19, 2023

The Palladian Ensemble's very first recording featured a number of pieces by Nicola Matteis…and for a while they used one of them almost as a signature tune. Now they have drawn more items from his huge ragbag of short pieces for two melody instruments and continuo - Ayres with a whole range of titles from Adagio to Jigg to Aria Burlesca con molto bizzarie and Giga Al Genio Turchescho - and made them the main subject of their latest disc, borrowing its title from Roger North's description of Matteis's playing: flaming as I have seen him, in a good humour he hath held the company by the ears…for more than an hour together.
Acknowledging, however, that Matteis's inspiration is a little hit-and-miss for a whole disc, they have mixed them with a few anonymous instrumental solos of the time and, most intriguingly, their own arrangements of Scottish folk tunes. In his insert-note Palladian lutenist William Carter admits that the connection between Matteis and musical matters Caledonian is 'indefinable', but the ear picks it up all right, and the combination seems to work rather well.
Not the least enjoyable feature is the convincingly folkish accent with which the Scottish tunes are performed; Pamela Thorby's soulful bends and grace notes are like an echo of the glens, while Rachel Podger's violin playing is as lithe as a fly-fisher's rod. As for Matteis, well, he is no genius, but his music can be fun, and besides, it does not seem to take much to get these players' imaginations going.
After all, the Palladian Ensemble are a group whose quick-witted inventiveness and almost supernatural internal rapport never fail to delight, whatever the music.

Performer:
Palladian Ensemble:
Pamela Thorby, recorders
Rachel Podger, violin
Susanne Heinrich, bass viol
William Carter, guitar, lute, theorbo

Tracklist:
Nicola Matteis (fl.c. 1670 - after 1714)
01. Preludio
02. The Lass of Peatie's Mill (Anonymous)
03. Aria Presto
04. Sarabande
05. Giga Al Genio Turchescho
06. Aria Burlesca Con Molto Bizzarie
07. Canaries (Anonymous, Straloch Lute Book)
08. A Scots Tune (Anonymous, Scottish)
09. Gallus Tom (Anonymous, Straloch Lute Book)
10. Gypsies Lilt (Anonymous)
11. Dumbarton's Drums (Anonymous)
12. Bonny Christie (Scottish Traditional)
13. When She Came Ben She Bobed (Scottish Traditional)
14. Gilliam Callum (Scottish Traditional)
15. Preludietto - Brisk
16. Fuga - Prestissimo
17. Arioso
18. Adagio
19. Jigg - Prestissimo
20. Divisions on a Ground in G (Anonymous)
21. Preludio - Adagio
22. Prestissimo
23. (Andante) - Prestissimo - Adagio
24. Aria Con Divisione
25. Roger of Coverly Divisions in D minor (Anonymous)
26. Preludio
27. Ostinatione
28. Sarabanda
29. Aria Burlesca
30. Preludio
31. Aria
32. Aria
33. Aria
34. Adagio
35. Aria Ad Imitatione Della Trombetta
36. A New Tune (Anonymous)

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