Brayssing: Complete Music for Renaissance Guitar / Rossignoli

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
April 22, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Gregoire Brayssing
    • PERFORMER
      Federico Rossignoli
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 22, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421964485
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96448
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. L'Alouette (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    2. Fantasia No. 1, "Fantasie des Grues" (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    3. Verba mea (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    4. Voulant honneur (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    5. Fantasie No. 2 (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    6. Cum invocarem (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    7. Ie cherche autant amour (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    8. Fantasie No. 3 (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    9. Beati quorum (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    10. Au temps heureux (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    11. Fantasie No. 4 (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    12. Super flumina Babylonis (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    13. Qui souhaitez (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    14. Fantasie No. 5 (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    15. Hélas mon Dieu (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    16. Un meisnagier viellard (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    17. O passi sparsi (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    18. In exitu Israel (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    19. Fantasie No. 6 (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli

    20. La guerre (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)

      Composer: Gregoire Brayssing

      Performer: Federico Rossignoli


As with many composers from the early modern period, very little is known about Gregoire Brayssing. This recording features his only surviving work, printed in Paris in 1553 as the fourth volume in a series dedicated to the guitar published by Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard. Brayssing’s collection provides us with a few clues about his life: the frontispiece describes him as ‘de Augusta’, meaning he was born in the German city of Augsburg. The Quart livre, despite containing only 20 pieces, is a pre-eminent example of writing for renaissance guitar, on a par with the works of Alonso Mudarra and Miguel de Fuenllana. It includes six short (some very short) contrapuntal fantasias, true gems of the repertoire, which showcase the composer’s ability to take full advantage of the instrument’s technical and expressive resources, including the fourth course with two strings in octaves, which the upper voice uses on more than one occasion. This device is employed throughout the book, but without ‘strangling’ the instrument, as happens in Fuenllana’s works. The psalms are next, expertly crafted and ornate, with Brayssing’s arrangement in a lower key of the first part of the motet In exitu Israel by Josquin des Prez a particular highlight. The composers of the other psalms are not known. The book continues with six chansons from leading composers of the time and a frottola, the famous O passi sparsi by Sebastiano Festa, all intabulated in the same manner as the psalms that precede them. Concluding the book are two long and intriguing compositions, completely unlike anything else in the repertoire: L’Alouette and La guerre, faitte a plaisir. The title of the former turns out not to be a transcription of Cle´ment Janequin’s famous work, but an original composition by Brayssing.