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Seven Dances from the Wedding DivertissementGeorg Philipp Telemann 7 movements6:35
- 1 Sarabande :57
- 2 Menuet 1:02
- 3 Rigaudon :54
- 4 Gigue :42
- 5 Loure 1:14
- 6 Bourée :56
- 7 Passepied :50
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8 Il lamento di Tristano e rotta Benjamin Thorn 4:47
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9 Trotto Benjamin Thorn 1:46
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Three Love SongsBarbara Strozzi 3 movements9:33
- 10 Chi brama in amore 1:55
- 11 Miei pensieri 3:10
- 12 Se volete così 4:28
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Songs for my father's weddingBenjamin Thorn 4 movements7:12
- 13 Introduction 1:43
- 14 Rise up, my love 1:49
- 15 Awake! North wind 2:16
- 16 Come, my love 1:24
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Where's the other one?Benjamin Thorn 3 movements2:25
- 17 1st movement :57
- 18 2nd movement :47
- 19 3rd movement :41
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Donna di maestàBarbara Strozzi 2 movements6:51
- 20 Allegro 2:56
- 21 Presto 3:55
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Pype and droom and …Benjamin Thorn 3 movements5:45
- 22 1st movement 2:04
- 23 2nd movement 1:48
- 24 3rd movement 1:53
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Two MotetsFrancesca Caccini 2 movements4:56
- 25 Laudate Dominum 2:56
- 26 Haec est dies 2:00
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27 The waters of Babylon Benjamin Thorn 2:15
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28 Passamezzo antico Nicolaus Ammerbach 3:59
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The voice of the crocodileBenjamin Thorn 3 movements4:26
- 29 1st movement 1:15
- 30 2nd movement 1:06
- 31 3rd movement 2:05
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Four recercadasBenjamin Thorn 4 movements7:55
- 32 Recercada primera 1:43
- 33 Recercada settima 1:33
- 34 Recercada ottava 2:36
- 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nicolaus Ammerbach
composer
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.
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Benjamin Thorn · recorders
- Wayne Madden · spinet, percussion
Technical credits
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Recording Engineer
Dougal Kelly
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Mixing Engineer
Dougal Kelly
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Venue
Woodstock Loft Studios
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 68 minutes 25 seconds
- Release date
- 1999
- Categories
- Australian, Classical, Early music
- Genres
- Early Music, Baroque, Contemporary Classical
- Musical work copyright
- © 1999 Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1999 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3219
- EAN
- 9314574321920
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