The Renaissance Album
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The Renaissance Album
Garan Sallscher (guitar)
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 12 December 2005
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The album contains Renaissance lute masterpieces by various composers from Italy, Spain, Germany, France and England, the most popular of which were written by John Dowland.
Göran Söllscher revives lute masterpieces from the Renaissance. This new project from Goran Söllscher is a follow-up to his previous CD, the highly successful 'Eleven-String Baroque'. With the balanced sound of Söllscher's eleven-string guitar combined with the Baroque repertoire, the album spoke to not only his fans but also a wider audience craving relaxing music and congenial guitar sounds. In this same spirit, Söllscher's Renaissance album will appeal to a wide audience including both his fans and new listeners in search of dreamy, soothing Renaissance melodies.
The stylish cover artwork emphasizes both the freshness and universality of Söllscher's art. The album contains Renaissance lute masterpieces by various composers from Italy, Spain, Germany, France and England, the most popular of which were written by John Dowland. Söllscher delivers a dozen of tracks by Dowland, a composer who embodies the 'golden age' of English lute music. Among them is one of the most sensual - and unusual - pieces for lute, 'My Lord Chamberlain his Galliard', which is performed by two players on a single instrument.
Other composers on this album include 'Il divino' Francesco da Milano, German lute composer Arnolt Schlick, Alonso Mudarra, Luys Milán, and Luys de Narváez from Spain.
Tracks:
MUDARRA : Fantasía que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico · Pavana de Alexandre · Gallarda
PHILIPS : Chromatic Pavan (Pavan Dolorosa) · The Galliard to the Chromatic Pavan
MILANO : Fantasia in F major · Ricercare in G minor · Fantasia in C major · Transcr.: Gunnar Spjuth · Fantasia in C minor · Fantasia in F major Transcr.: Gunnar Spjuth
DOWLAND : My Lady Hunsdon's Allmande · A Piece without Title · The Shoemaker's Wife: A Toy: Bagatelle
SCHLICK : Wer gnad durch klaff · Wer Zuneigung durch Geschwätz [stört]
NEUSIDLER : Ein welscher tantz: der Königin tantz · Ach Elselein Transcr.: Gunnar Spjuth · In Liebes brunst Transcr.: Gunnar Spjuth · Ein welscher tantz Wascha mesa
DOWLAND : Mr Dowland's Midnight · Sir John Smith, his Almain · Semper Dowland semper dolens
MOLINARO : Ballo detto 'Il Conte Orlando' - Saltarello del predetto ballo
MILÁN : Fantasía de consonancias y redoubles · Pavana V & VI Transcr.: Per-Olof Johnson
NARVÁEZ : La canción del Emperador · Quatro diferencias sobre Guárdame las vacas
DOWLAND : Forlorn Hope Fancy
HOLBORNE : Hartes Ease · The Fairy
BALLARD : Branles de village
DOWLAND : The Right Honourable Ferdinando, Earl of Derby, his Galliard · The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, her Galliard · A Fantasia · My Lord Chamberlain his Galliard*
* Duet to play on a single lute; Göran Söllscher plays both parts.
