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Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (2013)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (2013)

Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 369 Mb | Total time: 71:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | 88883754552 | Recorded: 1999

The music of Shakespeare's England - ballad tunes, country dances and elegant consorts - seems at first to be quintessentially English. Yet many of these tunes, as popular dances or in the high-art variations of division music, were inspired by Celtic and Spanish styles. In variations, from 17th-century manuscripts and in improvised divisions, 'gypsy' ballads are metamorphosed into exquisite consort music.

Susanne Heinrich - Tobias Hume: Passion & Division (2010)

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Susanne Heinrich - Tobias Hume: Passion & Division (2010)

Susanne Heinrich - Tobias Hume: Passion & Division (2010)
The First Part of Ayres - Captain Humes Musicall Humors, 1605

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 267 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 166 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Renaissance | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67811 | Time: 01:10:43

The works for viola da gamba of Elizabethan soldier and composer Tobias Hume are wonderfully eccentric, highly entertaining, and often deeply moving, but not often recorded, so new recordings are always welcome. This 2009 Hyperion disc by German gambist Susanne Heinrich may not be the most poetic, soulful Hume recording ever made – that honor would go to the incomparable Jordi Savall – but it is nevertheless a fine addition to the composer's catalog. With her warm but penetrating tone, polished but passionate technique, and acute sensitivity, Heinrich is a first-class player and interpreter, and her performances are wholly sympathetic to the music. Her account of the bleak "I am Melancholy" is as effective as that of the droll "Tickell, tickell," and her reading of the cheerful "Life" is as moving as that of the grim "Deth." Recorded in transparent and present digital sound, this disc deserves to be heard by all admirers of music for viola da gamba.

Michael Chance, David Cordier, Tragicomedia - A Musicall Dreame: Music by Robert Jones, Tobias Hume, Giles Farnaby (1990)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Michael Chance, David Cordier, Tragicomedia - A Musicall Dreame: Music by Robert Jones, Tobias Hume, Giles Farnaby (1990)

Michael Chance, David Cordier, Stephen Stubbs, Tragicomedia - A Musicall Dreame: Music by Robert Jones, Tobias Hume, Giles Farnaby (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 230 Mb | Total time: 64:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66335 | Recorded: 1988

Sublime musical expression does not necessarily proceed from serene spirits whose philosophical loftiness leaves them unmoved by the push and shove of the marketplace. Prefaces to printed editions of music in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries seldom reveal much of the personality behind the writer's effusive urge to prostrate himself before the dedicatee and his invocations to the muses to make worthy his humble efforts. Robert Jones, Tobias Hume and John Dowland were exceptions in this regard and often used their printed prefaces as a platform for polemics, self-defence and bile. In so doing they illumine the contemporary pressures of public opinion and changing fashions, as well as highly individual — not to say curmudgeonly — natures.

Jordi Savall - Tobias Hume: Musicall Humors, London 1605 (2004)

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Jordi Savall - Tobias Hume: Musicall Humors, London 1605 (2004)

Jordi Savall - Tobias Hume: Musicall Humors, London 1605 (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 472 Mb | Total time: 69:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alia Vox ‎‎| AV9837 | Recorded: 2004

Tobias Hume (c.1570-1645) was a professional soldier and a ‘gentleman’ (read amateur) composer, and virtuoso of the bass viol. His Musicall Humors (1605), a large collection of solo pieces, is the first publication devoted to the lyra viol, a style of playing that treated the instrument polyphonically, like a lute. Hume reveals himself as a distinct, even eccentric, personality, and an inventive composer, expanding the viol’s normal range with such unusual devices as col legno (‘Drum this with the backe of your Bow’). Jordi Savall’s cultivated, elegant style is very appropriate for much of the music; occasionally he adopts a more earthy manner to great effect – for example in A Souldiers Resolution, with its trumpet and drum imitations.