An educational programme featuring early music.
The lute song, songs with lute accompaniment, from the sixteenth and seventeenth century.
The seventeenth century was the Golden Age of music for the whole of Europe, particularly for Italy. The strict contrapuntal polyphonic style from e.g. the composer Palestrina made way for a new singing style: the monody, a style of accompanied solo song.
Today we look at songs for lute. This was a musical form that also was well-suited to gifted amateurs. Het was bij uitstek een muziekvorm die ook goed door begaafde liefhebbers uitgevoerd konden worden.
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
1. Tune thy Musicke to thy hart
2. Sweet exclude me not
3. Though you are young and I am old
4. The Sypres curten of the night
Steven Rickards, countertenor. Dorothy Linell, lute
(CD Thomas Campion – Lute Songs. Naxos 8.553380)
Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687)
5. Sé la doglia e’l martire
6. Orsa belle e crudele
7. Con la candida man
8. Que ferons nous
9. Graves tesmoins de mes délices
Wilke te Brummelstroete, mezzo-soprano. Nico van der Meel, tenor. Siebe Henstra, harpsichord. Mike Fentross, theorbo. Mieneke van der Velden, viola da gamba
(2CD Constantijn Huygens – Pathodia Sacra et profana. NM Classics 92109)
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1630)
10. From Primo libro d’Arie: Aria di passacaglia: Cosi mi disprezzate
Bartolomeo de Selma y Salaverde (ca. 1580- >1638)
11. From: Canzoni, Fantasie et Correnti: Canzona Terza
Andrea Falconiero (1586-1656)
12. Cosi Volete
Giovanni Battista Fontana (? -1631)
13. From Sonata, Venise 1641: Sonata seconda
Johannette Zomer, soprano. Ensemble La Primavera
(CD Va, Donna Ingrata. Zig Zag territoires 9807 01)
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
14. It fell on a sommers dale
15. When to her lute Corrina sings
16. Most sweet and pleasing are thy wayes
Steven Rickards, countertenor. Dorothy Linell, lute
(CD Thomas Campion – Lute Songs. Naxos 8.553380)
Image: Thomas Campion (source: Poetry Foundation)
