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Songs of Love and Marriage

Benjamin Thorn and Wayne Madden present a journey through 600 years of music on the theme of love. Rarely heard works by Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini sit beside the more familiar music of Telemann and Ortiz.

  • CatalogueMD 3219
  • Released1999
  • Playing time68 minutes 25 seconds

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  1. Seven Dances from the Wedding DivertissementGeorg Philipp Telemann 7 movements6:35
    1. 1 Sarabande :57
    2. 2 Menuet 1:02
    3. 3 Rigaudon :54
    4. 4 Gigue :42
    5. 5 Loure 1:14
    6. 6 Bourée :56
    7. 7 Passepied :50
  2. 8 Il lamento di Tristano e rotta Benjamin Thorn 4:47
  3. 9 Trotto Benjamin Thorn 1:46
  4. Three Love SongsBarbara Strozzi 3 movements9:33
    1. 10 Chi brama in amore 1:55
    2. 11 Miei pensieri 3:10
    3. 12 Se volete così 4:28
  5. Songs for my father's weddingBenjamin Thorn 4 movements7:12
    1. 13 Introduction 1:43
    2. 14 Rise up, my love 1:49
    3. 15 Awake! North wind 2:16
    4. 16 Come, my love 1:24
  6. Where's the other one?Benjamin Thorn 3 movements2:25
    1. 17 1st movement :57
    2. 18 2nd movement :47
    3. 19 3rd movement :41
  7. Donna di maestàBarbara Strozzi 2 movements6:51
    1. 20 Allegro 2:56
    2. 21 Presto 3:55
  8. Pype and droom and …Benjamin Thorn 3 movements5:45
    1. 22 1st movement 2:04
    2. 23 2nd movement 1:48
    3. 24 3rd movement 1:53
  9. Two MotetsFrancesca Caccini 2 movements4:56
    1. 25 Laudate Dominum 2:56
    2. 26 Haec est dies 2:00
  10. 27 The waters of Babylon Benjamin Thorn 2:15
  11. 28 Passamezzo antico Benjamin Thorn 3:59
  12. The voice of the crocodileBenjamin Thorn 3 movements4:26
    1. 29 1st movement 1:15
    2. 30 2nd movement 1:06
    3. 31 3rd movement 2:05
  13. Four recercadasBenjamin Thorn 4 movements7:55
    1. 32 Recercada primera 1:43
    2. 33 Recercada settima 1:33
    3. 34 Recercada ottava 2:36
    4. 35 Recercada segunda 2:03

Wayne Madden (spinet and percussion) and Australian composer and recorder player Benjamin Thorn present a journey through 600 years of music on the theme of love. Rarely heard works by Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini sit beside the more familiar music of Telemann and Ortiz. Thorn's own arrangements and compositions are interspersed to give a more contemporary angle on a timeless subject.

As Dolcimelo they play recorders with spinet and percussion. The programme ranges from medieval dances and ground-bass models through wedding pieces by Telemann and Strozzi to Thorn's own works on love, homeland and the Song of Songs.

Reviews

There is no doubting the talent of Benjamin Thorn … and, on the evidence of the pure music he has contributed to this exploration of songs of love and marriage spanning six centuries, he is capable of creating tunes of high quality.

Artists

No photograph: Wayne Madden

Wayne Madden

spinet, percussion

Wayne Madden graduated with a masters degree in music from the University of Melbourne and subsequently taught at the University of Tasmania (Launceston). He is currently musical director and soloist with the Kepler Ensemble.

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Benjamin Thorn

recorders

Benjamin Thorn is an Australian composer and recorder player based in Armidale, New South Wales. He is best known for his works for the recorder.

Photograph of Francesca Caccini

Francesca Caccini

composer

Francesca Caccini is represented on Move as the composer of two motets. Laudate Dominum and Haec est dies appear among rarely heard works on a programme of songs of love and marriage.

Photograph of Barbara Strozzi

Barbara Strozzi

composer

Barbara Strozzi is a composer of rarely heard vocal music on the theme of love. Her songs and the two-movement Donna di maestà are heard on Move.

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Georg Philipp Telemann

composer

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught, he became a composer against his family's wishes and ranked among the leading German musicians of his age.

No photograph: Nicolaus Ammerbach

Nicolaus Ammerbach

composer

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Diego Ortiz

composer

Diego Ortiz's recercadas are inventive variations on popular ground basses, written for the viola da gamba and still central to early-music programmes. His Trattado de Glosas remains the great sixteenth-century guide to bowed-string ornamentation.

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Technical credits

  • Recording Engineer Dougal Kelly
  • Mixing Engineer Dougal Kelly
  • Venue Woodstock Loft Studios

Details

List price
$25.00 AUD
Total playing time
68 minutes 25 seconds
Release date
Categories
Australian, Classical, Early music
Musical work copyright
© 1999 Move Records
Sound recording copyright
℗ 1999 Move Records
Catalogue
MD 3219
EAN
9314574321920

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