Music To Hear: Alfonso Ferrabosco, Music For Lyra Viol From 1609

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The preludes and dance numbers (allemandes, galliards and pavanes) are played with vigour and stateliness, and with just the right amount of rustic edge. Boothby also brings out the melancholic... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Jun 2023
Catalogue No: SIGCD757
Label: Signum
Length: 53 minutes

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Ferrabosco, A II: Lessons for 1, 2 & 3 Viols

Work length53:46

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Richard Boothby, Asako Morikawa

Prelude 2 (Page 34)

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Almaine – Coranto I (Page 17)

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Galliard – Coranto II (Page 25)

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Almaine – Coranto II* (Page 31)

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Galliard – Coranto II* (Page 30)

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Prelude 3 (Page 35)

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Almaine – Coranto III (Page 1)

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Galliard – Coranto III (Page 2)

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Almaine – Coranto IV (Page 3)

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Prelude 1 (Page 34)

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Galliard – Coranto IV (Page 11)

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Almaine – Coranto V (Page 12)

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Pavan – Coranto (Page 14)

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Alfonso Ferrabosco, born in Greenwich to an Italian composer father of the same name, was the pre-eminent viol player of the early 17th century, and his lyra viol publication mostly for solo viol is the largest, most important & technically challenging publication for viol for nearly a century. It was published in the same year at the Shakespeare Sonnets, and may share a dedicatee, in Henry Wriothsley, Earl of Southampton. Ferrabosco worked extensively with Ben Jonson on his plays and masks, in some of which Shakespeare acted.

The lyra viol was an English invention of only a few year before this work, and it had become bit of a craze, with many works published in the first 15 years of the century.

It’s first referred to in a play by Ben Jonson in 1599, Cynthia’s Revels, and at this time probably had sympathetic metal strings running underneath the bridge and through a hollow fingerboard.

Lyra-viol music is really the beginning of the journey that ends in the Bach suites for ‘cello and violin

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July 2023

The preludes and dance numbers (allemandes, galliards and pavanes) are played with vigour and stateliness, and with just the right amount of rustic edge. Boothby also brings out the melancholic quality of Ferrabosco’s music - a style that was highly fashionable in late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean England.

June 2023

These are intimate performances of intimate music, yes; but the writing and the playing are such that chordal and contrapuntal textures, beefy bass lines and flute-like cantabiles just about do the job of an entire consort of viols.

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Music To Hear: Alfonso Ferrabosco, Music For Lyra Viol From 1609

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