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Special offer. Airs and Graces
Scottish Tunes and London Sonatas
Dan Laurin (recorder)
Parnassus Avenue
Special offer. Airs and Graces
Scottish Tunes and London Sonatas
Dan Laurin (recorder)
Parnassus Avenue
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About
London in the early 1700’s offered a dazzling mix of virtually every European musical style. The recent union between England and Scotland led to an increased cultural exchange, and English audiences were entranced by the rhythms and colours of the traditional tunes of Scotland. Various collections, such as the settings by the recorder virtuoso Francesco Barsanti, were published and even Handel could not resist a few turns at the hornpipe in his Water Music. This state of affairs is reflected in the present mix of four baroque sonatas, by composers associated with London in various ways, and nine Scottish tunes in arrangements based on the Barsanti settings.
This imaginative programme is characteristic of the approach adopted by Parnassus Avenue, an ensemble which is constantly challenging ‘baroque standards’: according to Parnassus Avenue there is no ‘early’ music, just a never-ending ‘now’. In lending a John Stanley Adagio the same melancholy expressivity as the mournful Waly waly, and applying the same virtuosity to the hypnotic Clout the Cauldron as to a Handel Allegro, Dan Laurin and his colleagues also demonstrate that there are no genres, only one seamless musical whole.
Contents and tracklist
- Dan Laurin, David Tayler
- Recorded: June 2005
- Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States
- Dan Laurin, David Tayler, William Skeen, Hanneke van Proosdij
- Recorded: June 2005
- Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States
- Dan Laurin, David Tayler, William Skeen, Hanneke van Proosdij
- Recorded: June 2005
- Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States
- Dan Laurin, David Tayler, Tanya Tomkins, Hanneke van Proosdij
- Recorded: June 2005
- Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States
- Hanneke van Proosdij, William Skeen, David Tayler
- Recorded: June 2005
- Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States
- Hanneke van Proosdij
- Recorded: June 2005
- Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States
- Dan Laurin, David Tayler, William Skeen, Hanneke van Proosdij
- Recorded: June 2005
- Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States
- Dan Laurin, Tanya Tomkins, Hanneke van Proosdij
- Recorded: June 2005
- Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States
- Tanya Tomkins, William Skeen, Hanneke van Proosdij
- Recorded: June 2005
- Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States
- Hanneke van Proosdij
- Recorded: June 2005
- Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States
- Tanya Tomkins, William Skeen
- Recorded: June 2005
- Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States
- Dan Laurin, Hanneke van Proosdij
- Recorded: June 2005
- Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States
- Dan Laurin, David Tayler, Tanya Tomkins, Hanneke van Proosdij
- Recorded: June 2005
- Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States
- Dan Laurin, David Tayler, Tanya Tomkins
- Recorded: June 2005
- Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States