Parsons / Mersenne / Locke / Fantini / Child - Coronation Music for Charles II - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

At the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris There Exists a Very Unusual 17th Century Manuscript of Music for Solo Viola Da Gamba (Lyra Viol), Known Only By It's Shelf Number Reserve 1111. This Tiny Leather-Bound Book Is Elongated and Has 270 Pages. Compiled By at Least Eight Different Individual Hands, the Music Is Notated Almost Entirely in Tablature and Reflects a Variety of Scordatura Tunings. It Was Acquired By the Berlin Library in 1880 and Is Generally Thought to Originate from the Brandenburg Region That Is Part of Northern Germany. Near the End of the Thirty Years War, Brandenburg Started to Regain It's Prosperity and Stability Under the Leadership of Frederick William, Known As the Great Elector (Reigned 1640-1688). Quite a Number of the Finest Viola Da Gamba Players of the Day Are Known to Have Visited or Spent Time There. Frederick William Himself Played the Treble Viol. Res. 1111 Has Never Been Published in a Facsimile or Modern Edition. Not Only Were There a Great Number of Pieces with Which to Come to Grips, But Juliane Laake Also Had to Find Some Way to Organize Them Into a Coherent and Presentable Narrative. What You Hear Now Is a Record of Her Exploration and Sleuthing and Discovery.

A InchlandmarkInch is an object in a landscape or a turning-point, a milestone, symbol, or orientation point. Calmus performs ten Inchvocal landmarksInch on it's new album - works by ten composers from ten different countries. Musical borders open here, and styles mix. Songwriters encounter the avantgarde, folk meets jazz, South American rhythms pulsate alongside Yiddish melodies. You soon realize that it is actually a very short journey from minimal music to pop, and how classical harmonies and jazz sounds interweave. You will recognize masters such as Francis Poulenc, Leonard Cohen, Georg Kreisler, and Sting, but you are guaranteed to discover new songs such as the Krakow singer-songwriter Mordechaj Gebirtig, and the South American composers Federico Ruiz and Aylton Escobar. With landmarks Calmus has created a kind of Inchsounding globalizationInch. The music reflects a society which recalls the past and interprets it anew, which is receptive, and sometimes reflective, but also laughs and dances and swings!

?Coronation - Music for Royal Occasions spans 500 years of royal music - for celebration, for prayer and for commemoration - varying in scale from private devotion to full state coronation. The collection, featuring Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Purcell, Tippett and Britten, looks forward to the coronation of Charles III, and back to the ancient rituals of royal ceremonial. It also presents a new work, commissioned by the Genesis Foundation, from celebrated composer Cecilia McDowall commemorating the life of Queen Elizabeth II and celebrating her remarkable reign. Of course no such collection would be complete without examples from the four anthems Handel wrote for the coronation of George II at Westminster Abbey in 1727, of which Zadok the Priest has been performed at the coronation of every British monarch since. Much has changed since their first performance almost 300 years ago. Yet their dramatic impact and grandeur, underlined by mighty choral acclamations and regal trumpets and drums, remains supremely fit for the coronation of a new king.