Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – Geminiani & The Celtic Earth: Give Me Your Hand (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – Geminiani & The Celtic Earth: Give Me Your Hand (2017)
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Some of the Italian musicians who came to London to ‘make their fortunes’ found themselves influenced by the Celtic lands and their rich tradition of folk music. They were in their turn admired and sometimes even copied by their counterparts in the British Isles. This recording shows the outcome of that encounter. Lorenzo Bocchi was probably the first Italian cellist to settle in Edinburgh, in 1720.

Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762) arrived in Dublin in 1733. Since 1714 he had been resident in London, where he performed with Handel, but his passion for art dealing landed him in prison. The Earl of Essex then took him under his protection in Dublin, where he swiftly acquired a high reputation. In 1749 he published in London a collection of songs and tunes arranged as sonatas for several instruments combined with a treatise that gives us much useful information on how to play this music. James Oswald (1710-1769), whom Geminiani greatly admired, was a prolific Scottish composer. Turlough O’Carolan (1670-1738), a harper who went blind at the age of eighteen, travelled throughout Ireland as an itinerant bard in the service of aristocratic families. This disc brings these four musical protagonists together in an imaginary meeting (or perhaps it actually took place!) in Dublin.

Tracklist:

01. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – Sqr. Woodes’s Lamentation on y Refusauall of His Half Pense – Bruno Cocset (02:36)
02. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – Da Mihi Manum – Bruno Cocset, Esther Mirjam Griffioen (03:06)
03. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1: III. Violin Sonata in E Minor (Adagio-Allegro-Adagio-Tempo giusto-Adagio-Presto-Adagio-Allegro) / “My Nanio” (James Oswald) – Bruno Cocset, Bertrand Cuiller (07:57)
04. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – The Bonny Boat Man – Bruno Cocset, Bertrand Cuiller (03:01)
05. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – The Banks of Severn – Bruno Cocset, Bertrand Cuiller (02:41)
06. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – Concerto Grosso No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 7 (Andante) – Bruno Cocset, Guido Balestracci, Bertrand Cuiller, Emmanuel Jacques (01:39)
07. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – The Murrays March – Bruno Cocset, Bertrand Cuiller (01:41)
08. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick: Sonata I “The Broom of Cowdenknowe’s” (Grave) / “Bonny Christy” (Andante-Grave-Presto) – Bruno Cocset, Bertrand Cuiller, Emmanuel Jacques (03:27)
09. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – Plea Rarkeh Na Rourkough, or a Irish Weding Improved with Diferent Divisions After an Italian Maner with a Bass and Chorus by Sig.r Lorenzo Bocchi – Bruno Cocset, Guido Balestracci, Bertrand Cuiller (04:08)
10. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – Ragg Set by a Gentleman – Bruno Cocset (03:20)
11. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – Capten Magan-Creamonea-Planksty-John Drury (Second Air)-The Seas Are Deep-Lord Gallaways Lamentation – Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies (07:10)
12. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick: Song IV “O Bessy Bell” – Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies (02:40)
13. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – The Northern Lass – Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies (02:03)
14. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – To Dauntin Me (Slow-Gig) – Bruno Cocset (02:52)
15. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – Barbra Allan – Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies (02:07)
16. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – Steer Her up & Had Her Gaun – Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies (02:02)
17. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – The Banks of Sligoe – Bruno Cocset (02:22)
18. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – When She Cam Ben She Bobed – Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies (02:48)
19. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick: Air IV “Sleepy Body” – Bruno Cocset, Guido Balestracci, Emmanuel Jacques, Richard Myron (03:07)
20. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – John O’Connor – Bruno Cocset, Guido Balestracci, Emmanuel Jacques, Richard Myron (02:30)
21. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – Sheebeg and Sheemore – Bruno Cocset (01:16)
22. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – Colonel John Irwin – Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies (01:18)
23. Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies – The Inchanted Forrest (Andante affetuoso) – Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies (03:32)

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