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Richard MacKenzie - Tombeaux - A Secular Requiem (2018)

Richard MacKenzie - Tombeaux - A Secular Requiem (2018)

BAND/ARTIST: Richard MacKenzie

  • Title: Tombeaux - A Secular Requiem
  • Year Of Release: 2018
  • Label: Magnatune
  • Genre: Classical Lute
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
  • Total Time: 01:04:37
  • Total Size: 250 mb
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Tracklist

01. Monsieur Piectele: Prelude
02. Tombeau de Madame J: Grave
03. George Pilkington's Funeral: Pavane
04. Prelude
05. The Countess of Pembrook's Funeral: Pavane
06. Tombeau de Mezangeau: Allemande
07. Monsieur Piectele: Prelude 2
08. Tombeau de Mr Raquette: Pavane
09. Tombeau de la Raquette: Courante
10. Tombeau: Allemande
11. Tombeau de Mr de Maltot: Courante
12. Tombeau de Charles: Sarabande
13. Monsieur Piectele: Prelude 3
14. Tombeau de Blancrocher: Allemande
15. Tombeau de Mr. Blancrocher: Allemande
16. Chaconne
17. La Mort du Duc de Gloucester: Allemande
18. La Plainte, ou Tombeau de Mesdemoiselles de Visée, filles de l'auteur: Allemande
19. Death: Pavane
20. Life: Galliarde

This recording stands in memory to my late father. It is the first recording to focus on the rarely surveyed lute tombeaux repertoire of 17th-century France: examining its stylistic predecessors, application to alternative plucked instruments and its circulation. The recording is presented across a range of plucked instruments: baroque lute, renaissance lute, baroque guitar and theorbo.

The tombeau (translated as tomb) was a secular genre of instrumental music dedicated to a deceased person. They were usually written in the form of a Pavane or Allemande and presented in dark, usually barréd keys: C Minor being the most common on plucked instruments. The recording presents beautiful solemn examples of this profound repertoire, as well as works that break the conventional mould in, sometimes, the most surprising ways! A good deal of variety is included and the works provide great catharsis for mourners across the ages: for those who live and have ever lost.

Works are featured by composers including Francis Pilkington, Anthony Holborne, Jacques de Gallot, Ennemond Gaultier le vieux, Denis Gaultier, François Dufault, Francesco Corbetta, Robert de Visée, François Campion, Gallot d'Irelande, Georg Gebel and Tobias Hume.

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