Carine Tinney, Ziv Braha, ensemble feuervogel – The Queen’s Masque (A Female Representation of Power in English 16th Century Consort Music) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:22 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coviello Classics
Fairy figure, minstrel or holy virgin? Elizabeth I used all these role models as if in a masquerade to legitimize her position as monarch. Female rulers were not actually envisaged in the structures of the 16th century. They contradicted the passive, obedient and silent image of women of the time. With masque music by Byrd, Dowland, Morley, Parsons and others, ensemble feuervogel looks behind these royal masks, breaks through courtly facades and explores how the problem of role models was solved under Elizabeth I.
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Carine Tinney & Martin Gregorius – Dusk to Dawn (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:14 minutes | 943 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PASCHENrecords
The true vox humana in the form of a bell-like soprano voice, plus the artificial imitation of it in harmony with all the pipe works, to which the queen of instruments owes her majesty; complex lines and chords, woven into surfaces, over which simple, song-like singing rises in garlands to tell of eternal secrets: this is the new production with which Carine Tinney and Martin Gregorius are making their PASCHENrecords debut.
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