Baltimore Consort - Watkins Ale-Music of the Engli - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The term 'brunette' refers not only to a young woman with brown hair, but also to a musical form that was highly fashionable from the late seventeenth century to the early eighteenth. The genre evolved from the air de cour, extremely popular in France since the beginning of the seventeenth century. The compositional process, however, remained very similar to write a short, tender song, dealing with themes of love or nature, which could be sung alone or accompanied by a harmonic instrument. The late seventeenth century also saw the appearance of an instrument that soon became a favorite of composers and amateur musicians the German flute, now called the traverso or Baroque flute. In this new program, tenor Reinoud van Mechelen, flautist Anna Besson and A nocte temporis present an anthology of airs and brunettes ranging from the most touching song to the heartiest drinking song (air à boire). Album Tracks 1. Brunetes Ou Petits Airs Tendres, Tome I & II 2. Plaignez-Vous Ma Muzette from Airs Sérieux Et À Boire (1714) 3. Brunetes Ou Petits Airs Tendres, Tome II 4. Prélude (Pièces de Violes Troisième Livre (1711) 5. Brunetes Ou Petits Airs Tendres, Tome I 6. Pièces de Violes Troisième Livre (1711) 7. Brunetes Ou Petits Airs Tendres, Tome I 8. Prélude en Sol Mineur (L'art de Préluder (1719) 9. Brunetes Ou Petits Airs Tendres, Tome II 10. Suite en la Mineur Chaconne (Pièces de Théorbe Et de Luth (1716) 11. Calme Mes Déplaisirs (Recueil D'airs Sérieux Et À Boire (1713) 12. Brunetes Ou Petits Airs Tendres, Tome I 13. Les Bergeries, Naïvement (V. Ordre de Pièces de Clavecin (1717) 14. Brunetes Ou Petits Airs Tendres, Tome III 15. Le Concert Des Oiseaux - Le Ramage (Premier Livre de Pièces de Clavecin (1724) 16. Brunetes Ou Petits Airs Tendres, Tome II 17. Les Tourterelles (Concerts Pour la Flûte Traversière (1724) 18. Suspendez Quelq

Album Tracks 1. Joyne Hands 2. Pills to Purge Melancholy You Lasses and Lads 3. Jenny, My Blithest Maid 4. The Division Violin Johnny Cock Thy Beaver 5. The Dublin Virginial Ms Paven & Galliard 6. The Mermaid's Song 7. The Old Maid of the Mill Dust 8. Playford's 'Dancing Master' The Northern Lasse's Lamentation 9. Playford's 'Dancing Master' Well Hall 10. The Jewes Dawnce 11. Thomas Wode's Partbooks Come Love, Let's Walk 12. Green Garters 13. Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Ms The Irish Ho-Home 14. Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Ms The Irishe Dumpe 15. Playford's 'Dancing Master' Oh! How Happy's He 16. Ballet Lute Book Callino 17. William Stirling's Cantus Partbook Joy to the Person of My Love

Album Tracks 1. The Gowans Are Gay 2. Adew Dundee 3. Remember Me My Deir 4. Ane Ground 5. A New Scotch Song of Catherine Logy 6. The Scotch Cuckold 7. Green Grows the Rashes 8. Alace I Lie Alone 9. Blew Breiks 10. Adeu O Desie of Delylt 11. Generall Leslys Goodnight 12. Lesleis Lilt 13. Peggy Is Over Ye Sie Wi' a Souldier 14. I Mett Her in the Medowe 15. The Old Man 16. Richt Soir Opprest 17. Suit Smiling Katie Loves Me 18. Whip My Toudie 19. Remember Me at Evening 20. A Scot's Tune 21. Woe Worth the Tyme 22. What Might Motion 23. Branles D'escosse