Hume: Musical Humors (1605)

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TOBIAS HUME
Hume: Musical Humors (1605)
Jordi Savall (Viola da Gamba)

[ Alia Vox / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 3 August 2004

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Jordi is revisiting a composer he already recorded twice in the 80's, Tobias Hume. Jordi Savall has decided to record again some of the pieces of the Musicall Humors that were on the Auvidis disc of 1982, and to add many other he never recorded.

"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. When Captain Hume's Humors become more reflective, in a piece like Beccus an Hungarian Lord, Savall uses varied bow strokes and dynamic shadings with great artistry, to bring out the music's dignified, sombre character.
In characterising the music so strongly, Savall's rhythms are often very free; the rushing scalic divisions and lingering approaches to cadences balance one another, and prevent the music ever seeming stiff or mechanical. It's a finely produced disc, too, with a fascinating essay about the composer by David Pinto." Gramophone

Tracks:

A Humorous Pavin
Captaine Hume's Galliard
My hope is decayed
Captain Hume's Pavin
Harke, harke
A Souldiers Galliard
the Spirit of Gambo
A Pavin
Touch me Lightly
Beccus an Hungarian Lord
The Secvord Part
Loves farewell
The Duke of Holstone's Almaire
Death
Life
A Question
An Answere
The New Cut
A Souldiers Resolution
Good againe