La Royalle: Music for French Kings & Courtiers
Gordon Ferries (guitars, lute and theorbo)
My IRR colleague and lute afficionado Christopher Price has been an admirer of the Scottish musician Gordon Ferries for some time; this is the first time I have heard him – and I am impressed....
La Royalle: Music for French Kings & Courtiers
Gordon Ferries (guitars, lute and theorbo)
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My IRR colleague and lute afficionado Christopher Price has been an admirer of the Scottish musician Gordon Ferries for some time; this is the first time I have heard him – and I am impressed....
About
Gordon Ferries’ fifth solo disc for Delphian spans two centuries of music for kings and courtiers. Performing on four instruments matched to the periods in question, and captured in sumptuous recorded sound, Ferries takes in the chansons and elegant counterpoint of 16th-century France’s cultivated humanist courts and the exquisite melancholy and refined dance forms from the private chambers of Louis XIV’s Versailles, and investigates the place of guitar music at the heart of the decadence, sexual intrigue and Baroque splendour of Charles II’s Restoration court.
Contents and tracklist
- Gordon Ferries (theorbo)
- Recorded: 16-17 February 2012
- Recording Venue: St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk
- Gordon Ferries (lute)
- Recorded: 16-17 February 2012
- Recording Venue: St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk
- Gordon Ferries (lute)
- Recorded: 16-17 February 2012
- Recording Venue: St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk
Corbetta:
La guitarre royalle dediée au roy de la Grande Bretagne, Suite in D Major
Work length10:59
- Gordon Ferries (baroque guitar)
- Recorded: 16-17 February 2012
- Recording Venue: St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk
- Gordon Ferries (gittern)
- Recorded: 16-17 February 2012
- Recording Venue: St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk
- Gordon Ferries (lute)
- Recorded: 16-17 February 2012
- Recording Venue: St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk
- Gordon Ferries (theorbo)
- Recorded: 16-17 February 2012
- Recording Venue: St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk
- Gordon Ferries (baroque guitar)
- Recorded: 16-17 February 2012
- Recording Venue: St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk
- Gordon Ferries (theorbo)
- Recorded: 16-17 February 2012
- Recording Venue: St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk
- Gordon Ferries (gittern)
- Recorded: 16-17 February 2012
- Recording Venue: St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk
- Gordon Ferries (gittern)
- Recorded: 16-17 February 2012
- Recording Venue: St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk
- Gordon Ferries (gittern)
- Recorded: 16-17 February 2012
- Recording Venue: St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk
- Gordon Ferries (gittern)
- Recorded: 16-17 February 2012
- Recording Venue: St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk
- Gordon Ferries (baroque guitar)
- Recorded: 16-17 February 2012
- Recording Venue: St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk
- Gordon Ferries (baroque guitar)
- Recorded: 16-17 February 2012
- Recording Venue: St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk
Awards and reviews
Feburary 2013
My IRR colleague and lute afficionado Christopher Price has been an admirer of the Scottish musician Gordon Ferries for some time; this is the first time I have heard him – and I am impressed. The disc is beautifully produced …. Ferries’ playing is clean and unfussy and he has a particularly attractive way with trills … it is subtle, rich and probing … I am impressed and am confident other lovers of this repertory will be too.
1st December 2012
When Charles II arrived from France to assume the English throne, he brought with him a fascination for guitar music bordering on obsession... in these renditions on period instruments by Gordon Ferries of pieces by (mostly French) court composers, there is an elegance and poise that both soothes and satisfies
November 2012
These are crisp, clean interpretations, warmed by Ferries’ naturally sensitive musicianship.
Lute News November 2012
Ferries is clearly a master of everything he puts his hand to, both technically and in his interpretation of the different styles of music. A delight to listen to from start to finish.
