The worldpremiere recording of an early 17thcentury collection of music conceived for a richly varied ensemble of lutes.

Composer: Adriaan Smout
Artists: Pacoloni Ensemble

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Adriaan Smout (15781646) was a philosopher, teacher and preacher who collected and transcribed the music that came his way from across Europe. He lived, worked and died in Rotterdam, a city that has always been wellplaced to capitalise on international commercial and cultural links to support a distinguished history of music publishing.

The contents of Smout’s collection, which found its way into the Thysius library in Leiden, embraces musical forms amongst the most popular of the lateRenaissance and earlyBaroque periods: songs, branles, galliards and allemandes. There is also a bergamasque (a shepherd’s song) which, in its extreme simplicity, has been taken by the Italian musicians of the Pacoloni Ensemble as an opportunity for improvisation and variation. The original authors have nearly all been lost in the mists of time, except for Smout’s transcription of ´Can she excuse´, a song by John Dowland.

Up to four lutes are used, and several tracks are enhanced by percussion which would have lent colour and rhythmic strength to this music played in its own time: the manuscript as a whole has been freshly edited, and taken as the basis for richly textured and melodically elaborated performances which do not confine themselves to the literal indications of the tablature.

Tracklist:
Thysius Lute Book:
0:00:00 I. Si vous estes belle/Reprinse
00:04:10 II. Passomezo haubois/Gailliarde haubois
00:07:21 III. Jan Dirrixz
00:09:59 IV. Ick clam den boom al op
00:11:42 V. Onse Vader
00:14:51 VI. Wie sal mijn troetelen
00:18:10 VII. Gaet hem toe
00:20:40 VIII. Wilhelmus van Nassowen
00:24:48 IX. Can shee excuse
00:26:28 X. Brande d’Angleterre
00:28:57 XI. Rogier
00:30:33 XII. Passomezo del Zorzi
00:31:31 XIII. Galliarda la gamba
00:32:57 XIV. Passomezo la Romanesqua/Gallarde la romanesqua
00:35:52 XV. Galliarda la caracossa
00:38:45 XVI. Passomezo d’Italie/Gailliarde d’Italie
00:44:22 XVII. Gailliarda chi passa
00:47:46 XVIII. Bargamasco
00:51:06 XIX. Almande mon varle
00:53:41 XX. Gallarde Fransoyse
00:55:27 XXI. Gallarde de royne d’escosse
00:56:46 XXII. Gallarde belle qui me vas martirant
01:00:10 XXIII. Brande battaille


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