La Royalle : music for kings and courtiers /
Ferries, Gordon,performer.
Performing on four instruments matched to the periods in question, and captured in sumptuous recorded sound, Gordon Ferries's latest, eagerly-awaited solo recital for Delphian spans two centuries of music with Royal connections - from the chansons and elegant counterpoint of sixteenth-century France's cultivated humanist courts and the exquisitely melancholy dance-forms heard in the private chambers of Versailles, to the extraordinary place of guitar music in the decadence, sexual intrigue and Baroque splendour of Restoration England. The Italian-born composer and guitarist Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681) served both Charles II and his cousin Louis XIV, and his music provides a common thread.
Visée, Robert de : Allemande la Royalle -- Roy, Adrian Le : Pavane "Est il conclud," for lute -- Roy, Adrian Le : Gaillarde "Si Ie M'en Vois" -- Corbetta, Francesco : Suite for guitar in D major (from La guitarre royalle dediee au roy, 1674) -- Brayssing, Gregoire : Fantasie des Grues, for guitar -- Brayssing, Gregoire : Fantasie no 5, for guitar -- Brayssing, Gregoire : Fantasie no 6, for guitar -- Sermisy, Claudin de : Une bergerote no 1 -- Anonymous : Une bergerote, for lute -- Hurel, Charles : Suite for theorbo in C major -- Corbetta, Francesco : La guitarre royalle dediée au roy de la Grande Bretagne -- Corbetta, Francesco : Sarabande for 2 guitars in A minor -- Hurel, Charles : Suite in D -- Certon, Pierre : RobinRoy, Adrian Le : Almande tournee -- Sandrin : Jay veu que j'estoys franc et maistre -- Heurteur, Guillaume Le : Regretz soucy et peine (attrib.)Visée, Robert de : Suite for theorbo in D minor.
Gordon Ferries, guitars, lute & theorbo.
Performing on four instruments matched to the periods in question, and captured in sumptuous recorded sound, Gordon Ferries's latest, eagerly-awaited solo recital for Delphian spans two centuries of music with Royal connections - from the chansons and elegant counterpoint of sixteenth-century France's cultivated humanist courts and the exquisitely melancholy dance-forms heard in the private chambers of Versailles, to the extraordinary place of guitar music in the decadence, sexual intrigue and Baroque splendour of Restoration England. The Italian-born composer and guitarist Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681) served both Charles II and his cousin Louis XIV, and his music provides a common thread.
Music.
Guitar and lute music.
Guitar and theorbo music.
Courtiers and favourites of royalty
Courts and courtiers