Le Parler Et Le Silence

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Label
Ramee
Release Date
August 27, 2013
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BASSANO LUZZASCHI GUAMI FRE
    • PERFORMER
      Attaignant Consort
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 27, 2013
    • UPC
      4250128512060
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      RAM1206
    • LABEL
      Ramee
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Pulchra es amica mea (diminutions by Kate Clark)

      Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    2. Fantasia

      Composer: Giovanni Bassano

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    3. Canzon decima

      Composer: Luzzasco Luzzaschi

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    4. Varietie of Lute Lessons: The Knight of the Lute Fantasie

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Nigel North

    5. Canzon settimadecima

      Composer: Gioseffo Guami

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    6. Fantasia seconda

      Composer: Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    7. L'enfant amour

      Composer: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    8. Yeux, qui guidez mon ame en l'amoureux voyage

      Composer: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    9. Psalm 9

      Composer: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    10. My choice is made

      Composer: Francis Pilkington

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    11. Fantasia la tortorella

      Composer: Thomas Morley

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    12. Galliard, "Sleep wayward thoughts" (arr. N. North for lute)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Nigel North

    13. Fantasia

      Composer: Thomas Lupo

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    14. Fantasia

      Composer: Christopher Gibbons

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    15. Premiere entree de luth

      Composer: Robert Ballard

      Performer: Nigel North

    16. Si le penser de mon ame

      Composer: Charles Tessier

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    17. Si c'est un crime que l'aymer

      Composer: Antoine Boësset

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    18. Esprits qui soupirez

      Composer: Pierre Guédron

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    19. O destin par trop rigoureux

      Composer: Pierre Guédron

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    20. Si le parler et le silence

      Composer: Pierre Guédron

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    21. Chaconne des Harlequins de Mr. Lully

      Composer: Robert de Visée

      Performer: Nigel North

    22. Ritournelle de Ma bergere

      Composer: Michel Lambert

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    23. Si c'est un crime que l'aymer

      Composer: Antoine Boësset, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    24. Ritournelle de L'amour, le seul amour

      Composer: Michel Lambert

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    25. Prelude

      Composer: Robert de Visée

      Performer: Nigel North

    26. Chaconne

      Composer: Robert de Visée

      Performer: Nigel North

    27. Fanfare a trois flutes

      Composer: Jacques-Martin Hotteterre

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    28. Brunette en trio, "L'amant le plus fidelle"

      Composer: Jacques-Martin Hotteterre

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    29. Air anglois a trois flutes

      Composer: Jacques-Martin Hotteterre

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    30. I. Adagio

      Composer: Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    31. II. Presto

      Composer: Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    32. III. Adagio

      Composer: Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort

    33. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

      Ensemble: The Attaignant Consort




LE PARLER ET LE SILENCE: Music for Flute Consort and Lute from the Late 16th to the Early 18th Centuries • Attaignant Consort; Nigel North (lt) • RAMÉE 1206 (68:33)


Works by: PALESTRINA, BASSANO, LUZZASCHI, ANON., GUAMI, FRESCOBALDI, SWEELINCK, PILKINGTON, MORLEY, DOWLAND, LUPO, GIBBONS, BALLARD, TESSIER, BOËSSET, GUÉDRON, R. DE VISÉE, LAMBERT, J.-M. HOTTETERRE, BOISMORTIER


The Attaignant Consort wisely refrains from explaining what they mean by “Speaking and Silence.” Is it the music that speaks, the notes preceded and followed by silence? The tradition of polyphony that would shortly give way to the primacy of homophonic music? The fantasias and arrangements of vocal works, soon to give way to more thoroughly structured works composed for winds? The Renaissance and Baroque flutes (heard here in instrumental families styled after 16th and 18th century models) that would be stilled with the advent of newer models? Regardless, the Attaignant Consort supplies a fascinating program to illustrate the subtitle of their latest release.


As with their earlier albums, Le Parler et le Silence follows the modern practice in many live performances of forming discrete groups of selections that espouse some form of common identity along with internal and external contrasts. An example is the three Sweelinck arrangements—two witty bicinia or teaching pieces, each in two parts, based on French texts, followed by a learned but sweet five-part setting of Psalm 9. These three pieces, with their high order of imitative art, in turn lead into a section of five English works, the break of continuity illustrated by leading off with an arrangement of Francis Pilkington’s strictly homophonic madrigal My choice is made . The English pieces are in fact a microcosm of secular Elizabethan English music media, presenting madrigals, lute songs, and consort fantasias with variations in diminution. Each succeeding section in turn reveals careful attention to programming for formal diversity and central ideas, whether by nation, individual composer, or (as the program ends with a sonata da chiesa by Boismortier) increasingly formalized structure. In short, this isn’t one of those albums that sports an undifferentiated-four-recorders-as-one sound, but a program of diverse origins, thoughtfully explored by anywhere from solo instruments to full ensemble.


The Attaignant Consort appears not to have been reviewed in these pages, before. It was formed in 1998. Three out of four of their original members are still in the group. While recorder consorts aren’t exactly rare, this ensemble brings both a textural variety and touch of class to everything they do. Lutenist Nigel North’s eloquent performances contribute to the former; unpressured tone and sculpted phrasing, to the latter. The engineering is reasonably dry, close and balanced, with the lute never getting lost behind the Attaignants. Highly recommended.


FANFARE: Barry Brenesal