Recordings
Queen Elizabeth's Galliard: lute Music of Elizabethan England.
Robin Thodey, lute |
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"Robin Thodey's superb musicianship caresses each melancholy Pavan and gambols through the light dances and fantasia in this programme of characteristically vivid pieces from the turn of the 17th century. The golden age of English lute music. Her technique is faultless as well as musically sensitive to the poise and style of the period." Review by HiFi News & Record Review. "This collection celebrates an important aspect of the flowering of instrumental music in late-Tudor England, namely dance music for the lute composed in honour of members of the Elizabethan court by its chief exponents Dowland, Johnson, Holborne, and the ubiquitous Anon. The ‘Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth’ herself, for example, is honoured with a galliard, her jester with a jig-like ‘risurrectione’, while other courtiers receive pavans and other dances." Review by BBC Music Magazine. |
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| John Dowland (1563 - 1626) 1. Lachrimae 2. The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth her Galliard 3. The Rt. Hon. the Lady Rich her Galliard 4. Lady Russell's Pavan 5. Lady Hunsdon's Puffe 6. Tarleton's Risurrectione 7. Robin John Johnson (d. 1594) |
Anonymous Anthony Holborne (c. 1545? - 1602) |
O Come Sweet Sleepe, Elizabethan lute songs.
Michael Sanderson, tenor, Robin Thodey, lute |
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Dowland was the greatest lute composer of his time - 1563-1626 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; his music was the popular music throughout this period. He wrote for the lute and voice - a vast catalogue of music - from love songs to songs of grief and mourning through to songs for the lords and ladies of the royal court. (It is from this repertoire that Sting has chosen his material and brought it to wider public consciousness.) "For a more in depth repertoire of both solo lute and lute-songs by John Dowland, consult this title 'O Come Sweet Sleepe' with tenor Michael Sanderson accompanied by Robin Thodey on lute." Review by Discovery Records. |
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Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620) John Dowland (1563 - 1626)
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John Dowland (1563 - 1626) John Danyel (1564 - 1626) |
Music For Baroque lute. Bach, Gaultier, Kellner.
Robin Thodey, lute |
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"Around 1660, at the height of his powers, Denis Gaultier was the most celebrated lutenist-composer in France. Later, as the lute was eclipsed in popularity by the harpsichord, then replaced by the guitar, Gaultier's name faded from history. Today his music is rarely heard, which, to judge by the two attractive suites on this CD, is a great pity. The suites of pieces in D comes from his most famous collection, La rhetorique des Dieux (1650), and reveals his gift for gently haunting tunes, most notable here in the reflective Pavane and a brief, poignant Sarabande. The suite in G, dating probably from the 1650s or 1660s, is no less appealing, with its rhythmically quirky Gigue and another dreamy, intricate Sarabande. Robin thodey completes her recital with two short Fantasies by the Stockholm-based lutenist David Kellner and a fine version of the G major cello suite (BWV 1007) by his contemporary J.S. Bach, which she has transposed into C major for the lute. The disc is beautifully recorded, its intimate acoustic enhancing the restful quality of the music." Review by BBC Music Magazine. |
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Denis Gaultier (1603 - 1672) Suite in G Major David Kellner (1670 - 1748) J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) |
J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) Denis Gaultier (1603 - 1672) Suite in D Major
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J. S. Bach Suites I, II & III. Robin Thodey, lute |
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Transcribed for lute from the Suites for Unaccompanied Violoncello BWV 1007, 1008, 1009 "This disc consists of a recording of the artists's own arrangement of the first three of Bach's six cello suites intabulated for baroque lute. Robin Thodey plays with feeling and a pleasing softness. In principle she follows the finest of precedents." Review by BBC Music Magazine. |
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Johan Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) |