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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. You'll find rarely heard works by Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini as well as the more familiar music of Telemann and Ortiz.

Wayne Madden (spinet/percussion) and well-known Australian composer/recorder player Benjamin Thorn present a journey through 600 years of music on the theme of love. You'll find rarely heard works by Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini as well as 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.

Artist

Benjamin Thorn

Benjamin Thorn is a composer and recorder player based in Armidale NSW. He has written music for a wide range of instrumental and vocal combinations but has gained greatest recognition for his works for the recorder. He edited the acclaimed two volume collection of mostly Australian recorder music ‘Recorders at large’ (Currency Press) and has edited various seventeenth century works for Saraband.


Press quote

“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 marriange spanning six centuries, he is capable of creating tunes of high quality.”

— Bob Crimeen, Sunday Herald Sun

Audio preview

Track Listing

    Seven Dances from the Wedding Divertissement Georg Philipp Telemann

  1. Sarabande
  2. Menuet
  3. Rigaudon
  4. Gigue
  5. Loure
  6. Bouree
  7. Passepied
  8. Il lamento di Tristano e rotta Benjamin Thorn (Anonymous)
  9. Trotto Benjamin Thorn (Anonymous)
  10. Chi brama in amore Barbara Strozzi
  11. Miei pensieri Barbara Strozzi
  12. Se volete cosi Barbara Strozzi
  13. Songs for My Father's Wedding Benjamin Thorn

  14. Introduction
  15. Rise Up, My Love
  16. Songs for my Father's Wedding Benjamin Thorn

  17. Awake! North wind
  18. Come, My Love
  19. Where's the Other One? Benjamin Thorn

  20. 1st movement
  21. 2nd movement
  22. 3rd movement
  23. Donna di maesta Barbara Strozzi

  24. Allegro
  25. Presto
  26. Pype and Droom and ... Benjamin Thorn

  27. 1st movement
  28. 2nd movement
  29. 3rd movement
  30. Two Motets Francesca Caccini

  31. Laudate Dominum
  32. Haec est dies
  33. The Waters of Babylon Benjamin Thorn
  34. Passamezzo antico Benjamin Thorn Nicolaus Ammerbach
  35. The Voice of the Crocodile Benjamin Thorn

  36. 1st movement
  37. 2nd movement
  38. 3rd movement
  39. Four Recercadas Benjamin Thorn Diego Ortiz

  40. Recercada primera
  41. Recercada settima
  42. Recercada ottava
  43. Recercada segunda

Performers

Composers

Georg Philipp Telemann

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes.


Where to buy

Songs of Love and Marriage is available for download from the iTunes Music Store.
It's available for streaming through Apple Music.

Songs of Love and Marriage is available as as CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer secure online ordering.

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Product details

List price
$25.00 AUD
Release date
1999
Copyright
© 1999 Move Records
Phonogram
℗ 1999 Move Records
Categories
Australian, Classical, Early music
Catalogue number
MD 3219
Alternate catalogue number
MD3219
Barcode
EAN 9314574321920