Thomas Hobbs, Romina Lischka, Sofie Vanden Eynde – Orpheus’ Noble Strings (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:10 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paraty Productions
Orpheus and his lyre: how to better picture the power of music? Orpheus could move stones to tears, he even moved to pity the gates of death. Music overturns the world, this the composers of the English Renaissance knew very well. Even more, music is the soul of the world, a unifying force. Thomas Hobbs celebrates the many facets of music in lutesongs, in particular those of by T. Campion and J. Danyel. It is not solely the lute which accompanies the song, but also less frequently heard instruments such as the lyra viol, the bandora, the orpharion. With their generous strings, these instruments bring to the ears the sound of Orpheus’ magical lyre.
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Romina Lischka, Sofie Vanden Eynde – Marais, de Visée & Sainte Colombe: En Suite (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:12:25 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paraty
The viola da gamba and the theorbo are string nobility: an artistic duo embodying the height of grandeur and sophistication. Indeed, the sense of intimacy that can arise between the two in French baroque repertoire provided the impetus for this recording. Though different in appearance and technique —one is bowed, the other plucked — both instruments have more in common than might at first seem.
The viola da gamba’s finest hour, however, both in terms of composition and performance, was undoubtedly the result of the work of one man, Marin Marais (1656-1728). It is of course possible to hear echoes, in Marais’ eccentric style of performance and composition, of his beloved and inspiring teacher Sainte Colombe (c. 1658–1701), about whose life and career we sadly know very little. It was however Sainte Colombe who pioneered the technical innovations needed to make expressive and virtuosic solo performance on the bass viol possible, e.g. by introducing silver-wound strings, which produced a more clearly defined sound. He also added an extra bass string and modified playing technique to allow the left hand to move more freely. Marin Marais’ haunting instrumental lament ‘Tombeau de Ste Colombe’ is a pupil’s enduring testament in honour of his master.
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B-Five Recorder Consort, Sofie Vanden Eynde – The Soule of Heaven (Pavans and Almaines of Alfonso Ferrabosco I & II) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:12 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Coviello Classics
B-Five Recorder Consort is a European recorder quintet. The centerpiece of the ensemble’s programs forms the consort music of the renaissance period. In addition to that the musicians try to establish a new repertoire for recorder quintet in collaboration with different composers.
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Sofie Vanden Eynde – Vanishing Point (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:56 minutes | 915 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Antarctica Records
In 2016, lutenist Sofie Vanden Eynde put her instrument aside for nine months to recover from a severe burnout. Five years later, she felt the need to look back. Would it be possible to articulate the inner reality of a burnout musically: to make a burnout audible, tangible, understandable and – who knows – avoidable?
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