Orlando Gibbons - Pavan & Galliard 'Lord Salisbury'
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- Опубликовано: 25 окт 2024
- Michael Maxwell Steer performs Gibbons' most famous Pavan(e) & Galliard. This coupling of slow & fast dances was popular all over Europe from c1540 to c1650, after which they were superseded by Louis XIV's fashion/passion for the Allemande & Courante.
Robert Cecil, created Earl of Salisbury, was Elizabeth's leading minister and patron of William Byrd as well as Gibbons. To get a further glimpse into this world visit my BBCr3 programme about Thomas Coryate msteer.co.uk/au....
The harpsichord is a flemish model made in 1996 by Michael Ellis-James, believed to be from a Delin kit. For more about Michael Maxwell Steer visit msteer.co.uk/
Gibbons was an extraordinary composer...played wonderfully. The different sounds that can be obtained from this harpsichord are amazing.
I love hearing this music played in meantone temperament. It sounds so much more alive and characterful than when played in ET, and brings out Gibbons's methods of development very well. Thank you for sharing.
Prezioso! Interessante la lettura del pentagramma! Un Rubens, inoltre, non può mancare in ogni salotto...
How can folk NOT like this ? Just shut up, and listen.
I love the art piece on the wall. It is fits just right with the music that the temperament of the subject of the art piece could never be described as even. Oh, and that smirk at the end just kills me.
Beautiful playing on a beautiful instrument. Lovely to hear this piece again.
Great playing, sir, and I like your personable smile at the end! Gibbons certainly had some harmonic structures way ahead of his time. I reckon the fire extinguisher would only be an issue if you were recreating a 17th century evening and dressed accordingly; then it might be an amusing anachronism! Thanks for sharing your musical skill and knowledge with us. Cheers - Peter, NZ.
Ah yes, the great Gibbons! Makes you proud to be an Englishman!
comprehensiveboy --- I first heard his music around 1950 in California in the Oxford History of Music. I wonder he is not more esteemed and played.
The harpsichord is a flemish copy, made 1996 by Michael Ellis-Jones, & thought to be from a Delin Renaissance Workshops kit. It is a superb, & superbly reliable, instrument. Ive had it for 3 years & am still in love. Wish I could play it more often!
For tuning I use what I call 'optimised meantone' - WITS I vary it according to the key-range of the piece/s Im playing. Basically #-oriented repertoire I go for rich majors in the white note keys & tweak the black notes as required (eg here for Am).
Amazing music thanks for this wonderful interpretation!
faboulus,extraudinario,thanks,keep on posting please
isso é perfeito e traz toda uma melancolia essencial...
Nice
Thank you very much!
Beautiful performance! I was interested to see that you render the double cross-hatches as principal-note shakes and the single cross-hatches as slides. I haven't encountered any sources that identified these that concretely, aside from some possibilities. But I'm not a specialist! Could I ask how you arrived at this realization?
Do I? I had to watch it again to see if I agreed with what I did 10 y/a! Certainly I approached it logically, but I think I was as much governed by what made best musical sense. I've been such different things since it was great to be reminded of this wonderful music.
Чудово!
Orlando Gibbons
Baptisé à Oxford le 25 décembre 1583,
Décédé à Canterbury le 5 juin 1625,
Compositeur anglais.
Par ses talents de compositeur, il a donné à la musique anglicane sa forme la plus pure.
Biographie
Orlando Gibbons naît le 25 décembre 1583 dans une famille de musiciens. Après avoir été choriste et étudiant en musicologie auKing's College (Cambridge), où son frère Edward Gibbons (1568-1650) était maître de chapelle, il est nommé organiste à la Chapelle Royale en 1604. Orlando Gibbons est reçu Bachelor of Music en 16062. En 1623, il est nommé organiste à l'abbaye de Westminster à Londres. Il est également employé comme organiste par le futur Charles Ier d'Angleterre. Orlando Gibbons décède à Canterbury, le5 juin 1625, où il est inhumé à la cathédrale.
Œuvre
Orlando Gibbons est réputé pour ses compositions de musique de chambre, principalement des pièces pour clavier,clavecin, orgue ou virginal, mais aussi des pièces pour violes. Il composa aussi des œuvres chorales, pour la liturgie anglicane, où il excelle dans l'art du contrepoint. Il dote la liturgie de deux nouvelles formes chorales, le Full Anthem, hymne purement polyphonique, et le Verse Anthem, hymne à versets, alternant chœur et soliste. Mais il a écrit également quelques pièces vocales profanes, dont les fameux Cris de Londres.
Vers 1611, Gibbons a contribué, avec six pièces, au premier recueil imprimé de musique pour clavier en Angleterre,Parthenia, un recueil constitué de 21 pièces destinées au virginal. Les Fantaisies et les danses, Pavanes, Gaillardes sont des formes musicales prisées par l'auteur. L'écriture de Gibbons montre une parfaite maîtrise du contrepoint. La plupart de ses Fantaisies sont des pièces complexes, exceptionnelles tant en invention mélodique, qu'en développement contrapuntique.
Source :fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Gibbons
Nice performance, thanks ! Interesting you use a modified meantone. So do you retune the instrument for each different piece ? What a lot of work that must be. I noticed you have tuned a flat low, ie it sounds in A flat where the piece is notated in A. Is that related to your tuning or do you just like A flat better ? I have to agree it sounds richer than A.
It was over 10 y/a. I don’t remember. I imagine I had the transposing mechanism at A=415. Since you have to tune harpsichords all the time anyway it's no extra effort to tune them to whatever temperament best suits a specific piece of music.
Très bien!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes the firextinguisher was a mistake. I changed the camera angle to avoid it & actually succeeded in including it! My posture when playing isnt the same as my posture when looking in the viewfinder.
Tx4 suggestion. I probably will cover the Byrd. I find it a pleasant diversion from other musical activities to (re)learn & record these pieces that you cannot actually fill a hall by playing in public.
reminds me of js bach`s Goldberg variation 15
Interesting. Didn't realize that harpsichords have these kind of timbre changes.
Meglio un musicista vero con uno strumento falso che un musicista falso con uno strumento vero