Brayssing: Complete Music for Renaissance Guitar / Rossignoli
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Brayssing: Complete Music for Renaissance Guitar / Rossignoli

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Composer
Gregoire Brayssing
Artist
Federico Rossignoli
Format
CD
Discs
1
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Apr 22, 2022
Catalog #
BRI96448
UPC
5028421964485

About

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.

Tracklist 20 tracks

  1. 1 L'Alouette (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 05:07
    Track
    1
    Title
    L'Alouette (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    05:07
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  2. 2 Fantasia No. 1, "Fantasie des Grues" (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 03:20
    Track
    2
    Title
    Fantasia No. 1, "Fantasie des Grues" (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    03:20
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  3. 3 Verba mea (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 01:19
    Track
    3
    Title
    Verba mea (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    01:19
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  4. 4 Voulant honneur (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 03:08
    Track
    4
    Title
    Voulant honneur (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    03:08
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  5. 5 Fantasie No. 2 (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 01:37
    Track
    5
    Title
    Fantasie No. 2 (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    01:37
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  6. 6 Cum invocarem (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 02:13
    Track
    6
    Title
    Cum invocarem (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  7. 7 Ie cherche autant amour (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 02:46
    Track
    7
    Title
    Ie cherche autant amour (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  8. 8 Fantasie No. 3 (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 01:23
    Track
    8
    Title
    Fantasie No. 3 (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  9. 9 Beati quorum (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 01:31
    Track
    9
    Title
    Beati quorum (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    01:31
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  10. 10 Au temps heureux (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 03:09
    Track
    10
    Title
    Au temps heureux (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  11. 11 Fantasie No. 4 (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 02:53
    Track
    11
    Title
    Fantasie No. 4 (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    02:53
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  12. 12 Super flumina Babylonis (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 01:51
    Track
    12
    Title
    Super flumina Babylonis (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  13. 13 Qui souhaitez (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 03:36
    Track
    13
    Title
    Qui souhaitez (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  14. 14 Fantasie No. 5 (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 00:59
    Track
    14
    Title
    Fantasie No. 5 (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    00:59
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  15. 15 Hélas mon Dieu (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 03:39
    Track
    15
    Title
    Hélas mon Dieu (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    03:39
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  16. 16 Un meisnagier viellard (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 03:00
    Track
    16
    Title
    Un meisnagier viellard (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  17. 17 O passi sparsi (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 03:34
    Track
    17
    Title
    O passi sparsi (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    03:34
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  18. 18 In exitu Israel (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 07:58
    Track
    18
    Title
    In exitu Israel (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    07:58
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  19. 19 Fantasie No. 6 (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 01:22
    Track
    19
    Title
    Fantasie No. 6 (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    01:22
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli
  20. 20 La guerre (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre) 04:24
    Track
    20
    Title
    La guerre (from A. Le Roy's Quart livre de tablature de guitarre)
    Duration
    04:24
    Composer
    Gregoire Brayssing
    Performer
    Federico Rossignoli