Les Sacqueboutiers - Scheidt: Ludi musici (Excerpts) (2006)
BAND/ARTIST: Les Sacqueboutiers
- Title: Scheidt: Ludi musici (Excerpts)
- Year Of Release: 2006
- Label: Flora
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
- Total Time: 00:56:00
- Total Size: 245 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Ludi musici I: No. 28, Canzon a 5 super "O Nachbar Roland", SSWV 66
02. Ludi musici I: No. 32, Courant a 5, SSWV 70
03. Ludi musici I: No. 17, Courant a 4, SSWV 55
04. Ludi musici I: No. 23, Courant a 4, SSWV 61
05. Ludi musici I: No. 29, Canzon a 5 super cantionem gallicam, SSWV 67
06. Ludi musici I: No. 15, Paduan dolorosa a 4, SSWV 53
07. Ludi musici I: No. 5, Paduan a 4, SSWV 43
08. Ludi musici I: No. 9, Courant dolorosa a 4, SSWV 47
09. Ludi musici I: No. 30, Canzon a 5 super Intradam Aethiopicam, SSWV 68
10. Ludi musici I: No. 7, Galliard a 4, SSWV 45
11. Ludi musici I: No. 24, Galliard a 4, SSWV 62
12. Ludi musici I: No. 16, Alamande a 4, SSWV 54
13. Ludi musici I: No. 18, Canzon "Cornetto" a 4, SSWV 56
14. Ludi musici I: No. 6, Paduan a 4, SSWV 44
15. Ludi musici I: No. 22, Intrada a 5, SSWV 60
16. Ludi musici I: No. 25, Galliard a 5, SSWV 63
17. Ludi musici I: No. 21, Galliard Battaglia a 5, SSWV 59
Les Sacqueboutiers are a veteran presence on the French early music scene, having accompanied many top vocal groups specializing in the early Baroque as well as issuing several releases under their own name -- which refers to the sacquebout, inelegantly translated into English as sackbut or, more inelegantly still, sagbutt. (The Italian word "trombone," in fact, originally meant sackbut.) They play other early brass instruments besides the sackbut, here including the cornett and early trumpet. The Ludi Musici of Samuel Scheidt, composed in 1620, is right up their alley; here they perform 17 of the 32 short dances and canzonas included in that set of light music intended for the establishment of the Archbishop of Magdeburg.
Scheidt, as annotator Jean-Pierre Canihac points out, specified the use of viols, trombones, bassoons, and optional cornetts in the Ludi Musici. Certainly instrumentation was highly flexible at this stage of the early Baroque, and the group's transference of the music to new instruments is not an issue in itself. Nor is the reordering of the pieces -- Scheidt's manuscript grouped the pieces by dance type, but musicians of his time surely wouldn't have played them that way. It might have been nice to hear from the group as to why it opted for an ensemble that was more homogeneous than the one Scheidt suggested -- the brasses of Les Sacqueboutiers are only lightly accompanied by theorbo or guitar, organ, and percussion, and there are passages where a string section would have enlivened antiphonal effects in the music. Taken on its own terms, however, the group's playing is impressive in its smoothness and in its mastery of some rather difficult old instruments. There is more to say on the subject of authentic performance of this music, but this disc makes for very pleasant entertainment music -- which is just what Scheidt was aiming to create back in 1620.
01. Ludi musici I: No. 28, Canzon a 5 super "O Nachbar Roland", SSWV 66
02. Ludi musici I: No. 32, Courant a 5, SSWV 70
03. Ludi musici I: No. 17, Courant a 4, SSWV 55
04. Ludi musici I: No. 23, Courant a 4, SSWV 61
05. Ludi musici I: No. 29, Canzon a 5 super cantionem gallicam, SSWV 67
06. Ludi musici I: No. 15, Paduan dolorosa a 4, SSWV 53
07. Ludi musici I: No. 5, Paduan a 4, SSWV 43
08. Ludi musici I: No. 9, Courant dolorosa a 4, SSWV 47
09. Ludi musici I: No. 30, Canzon a 5 super Intradam Aethiopicam, SSWV 68
10. Ludi musici I: No. 7, Galliard a 4, SSWV 45
11. Ludi musici I: No. 24, Galliard a 4, SSWV 62
12. Ludi musici I: No. 16, Alamande a 4, SSWV 54
13. Ludi musici I: No. 18, Canzon "Cornetto" a 4, SSWV 56
14. Ludi musici I: No. 6, Paduan a 4, SSWV 44
15. Ludi musici I: No. 22, Intrada a 5, SSWV 60
16. Ludi musici I: No. 25, Galliard a 5, SSWV 63
17. Ludi musici I: No. 21, Galliard Battaglia a 5, SSWV 59
Les Sacqueboutiers are a veteran presence on the French early music scene, having accompanied many top vocal groups specializing in the early Baroque as well as issuing several releases under their own name -- which refers to the sacquebout, inelegantly translated into English as sackbut or, more inelegantly still, sagbutt. (The Italian word "trombone," in fact, originally meant sackbut.) They play other early brass instruments besides the sackbut, here including the cornett and early trumpet. The Ludi Musici of Samuel Scheidt, composed in 1620, is right up their alley; here they perform 17 of the 32 short dances and canzonas included in that set of light music intended for the establishment of the Archbishop of Magdeburg.
Scheidt, as annotator Jean-Pierre Canihac points out, specified the use of viols, trombones, bassoons, and optional cornetts in the Ludi Musici. Certainly instrumentation was highly flexible at this stage of the early Baroque, and the group's transference of the music to new instruments is not an issue in itself. Nor is the reordering of the pieces -- Scheidt's manuscript grouped the pieces by dance type, but musicians of his time surely wouldn't have played them that way. It might have been nice to hear from the group as to why it opted for an ensemble that was more homogeneous than the one Scheidt suggested -- the brasses of Les Sacqueboutiers are only lightly accompanied by theorbo or guitar, organ, and percussion, and there are passages where a string section would have enlivened antiphonal effects in the music. Taken on its own terms, however, the group's playing is impressive in its smoothness and in its mastery of some rather difficult old instruments. There is more to say on the subject of authentic performance of this music, but this disc makes for very pleasant entertainment music -- which is just what Scheidt was aiming to create back in 1620.
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