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Calling the Muse

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Details

Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
Bruno Helstroffer
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Aug 24, 2018
Catalog #
ALPHA391
UPC
3760014193910

About

Bruno Helstroffer writes of his new release: "It's a logbook, the one I've never really kept. My years of blues/rock and early music mingle here; the thousands of kilometers travelled with that theorbo of mine, the cities and the countryside, the railways, the skies, the scents, the lights; but above all, the music of the people. 'Partite variate sopra quest'aria francese detta l'alemana' is a tablature by Piccinini of an aria also called La Monica. In North America in the late nineteenth century, railroad hoboes carved their vagabond pseudonym along the tracks, which they called their 'moniker'... 'Corrente VI sopra l'alemana,' by the same composer, is the energetic counterpart to the noble and meditative allemande. 'Like a Belfry' is taken from a dream... Rosemary Standley has set her words to the melody and sings them. J. H. Kapsberger's 'Toccata nona' is associated here with Perivoli Blue. Perivoli is a village in the south of the island of Corfu. 'Thanks Toumani' expresses my fascination with Mandingo music. Bellerofonte Castaldi's 'Arpeggiata a mio modo' was one of my first challenges on the theorbo. Erik Satie's 'Gnossienne no.1' arrived under my fingers without warning and made a place for itself here by fitting in so naturally that I couldn't say no to it. This is the piece chosen by my photographer friend Richard Dumas to make the video clip of the album. With Kapsberger's 'Bergamasca,' a dance from Bergamo in Italy, the theorbo becomes a festive and agile instrument. 'A Tea with Bach' is an arrangement of the Minuet from Bach's Cello Suite no.1. The 'Toccata Undicesima' serves as the introduction to an improvisation: Vos luths. And invokes India."

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 Partite sopra quest'aria francese detta l'Alemana 05:08
    Track
    1
    Title
    Partite sopra quest'aria francese detta l'Alemana
    Duration
    05:08
    Composer
    Alessandro Piccinini
    Performer
    Bruno Helstroffer
  2. 2 Corrente No. 6 Sopra l'Alemana 01:52
    Track
    2
    Title
    Corrente No. 6 Sopra l'Alemana
    Duration
    01:52
    Composer
    Alessandro Piccinini
    Performer
    Bruno Helstroffer
  3. 3 Comme un beffroi 05:29
    Track
    3
    Title
    Comme un beffroi
    Duration
    05:29
    Composer
    Bruno Helstroffer, Rosemary Standley
    Performer
    Rosemary Standley, Michel Godard, Emek Evçi, Bruno Helstroffer
  4. 4 Toccata nona 02:22
    Track
    4
    Title
    Toccata nona
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
    Performer
    Bruno Helstroffer
  5. 5 Perivoli Blue 04:25
    Track
    5
    Title
    Perivoli Blue
    Duration
    04:25
    Composer
    Bruno Helstroffer
    Performer
    Bruno Helstroffer
  6. 6 Thanks Toumani 07:54
    Track
    6
    Title
    Thanks Toumani
    Duration
    07:54
    Composer
    Bruno Helstroffer
    Performer
    Bruno Helstroffer
  7. 7 Arpeggiata a mio modo 02:50
    Track
    7
    Title
    Arpeggiata a mio modo
    Duration
    02:50
    Composer
    Bellerofonte Castaldi
    Performer
    Bruno Helstroffer
  8. 8 3 Gnossiennes: Gnossienne No. 1 (arr. for theorbo) 03:42
    Track
    8
    Title
    3 Gnossiennes: Gnossienne No. 1 (arr. for theorbo)
    Duration
    03:42
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Bruno Helstroffer
  9. 9 Libro IV d'intavolatura di chitarrone: Bergamasca 04:28
    Track
    9
    Title
    Libro IV d'intavolatura di chitarrone: Bergamasca
    Duration
    04:28
    Composer
    Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
    Performer
    Bruno Helstroffer
  10. 10 Dans la chambre de mon théorbe 02:54
    Track
    10
    Title
    Dans la chambre de mon théorbe
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
    Performer
    Jean-Luc Debattice, Bruno Helstroffer
  11. 11 CLAN 04:23
    Track
    11
    Title
    CLAN
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Bruno Helstroffer
    Performer
    Bruno Helstroffer
  12. 12 A Tea with Bach (after J.S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: V. Menuet I-II) 04:40
    Track
    12
    Title
    A Tea with Bach (after J.S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: V. Menuet I-II)
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Bruno Helstroffer
    Performer
    Bruno Helstroffer
  13. 13 Toccata undicessima 02:07
    Track
    13
    Title
    Toccata undicessima
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
    Performer
    Bruno Helstroffer
  14. 14 Vos luths 03:51
    Track
    14
    Title
    Vos luths
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Bruno Helstroffer
    Performer
    Bruno Helstroffer