Est 1923

Garden Of Early Delights

Delightful choices, delectable playing – everything in the garden is lovely

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Biagio Marini, Giovanni Bassano, John Dowland, Diego Ortiz, Jacob van Eyck, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Johann Schop, Dario Castello

Genre:

Chamber

Label: Linn Records

Media Format: Hybrid SACD

Media Runtime: 0

Mastering:

Stereo
DDD

Catalogue Number: CKD291

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Trattado de glosas, Movement: Recercada segunda de tenore Diego Ortiz, Composer
Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp
Diego Ortiz, Composer
Pamela Thorby, Recorder
(Der) Fluyten Lust-hof, Movement: What shall we do this evening? (Wat zal men op den) Jacob van Eyck, Composer
Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp
Jacob van Eyck, Composer
Pamela Thorby, Recorder
(Der) Fluyten Lust-hof, Movement: When Daphne, the most beautiful maiden (Doen Daphnchoone Maeght) Jacob van Eyck, Composer
Jacob van Eyck, Composer
Pamela Thorby, Recorder
(Der) Fluyten Lust-hof, Movement: Buffoons (Boffons) Jacob van Eyck, Composer
Andrew Lawrence-King, Psaltery
Andrew Lawrence-King, Psaltery
Jacob van Eyck, Composer
Pamela Thorby, Recorder
Sonata seconda a soprano solo Dario Castello, Composer
Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp
Dario Castello, Composer
Pamela Thorby, Recorder
(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Sorrow sorrow stay, lend true repentant teares John Dowland, Composer
Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp
John Dowland, Composer
Lachrime pavaen Johann Schop, Composer
Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp
Johann Schop, Composer
Pamela Thorby, Recorder
(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Weepe you no more sad fountaines John Dowland, Composer
Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp
John Dowland, Composer
Susanne un jour Giovanni Bassano, Composer
Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp
Giovanni Bassano, Composer
Pamela Thorby, Recorder
Recercada II sobre camto llano Diego Ortiz, Composer
Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp
Diego Ortiz, Composer
Pamela Thorby, Recorder
Sonate a 1,2,3 per il Violono o Cornetto, Chitarro, Movement: Sonata sesta (1 instrument) Giovanni Battista Fontana, Composer
Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp
Giovanni Battista Fontana, Composer
Pamela Thorby, Recorder
Per ogni sorte di strumento musicale diversi gener, Movement: Passacaglio Biagio Marini, Composer
Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp
Biagio Marini, Composer
Sonate a 1,2,3 per il Violono o Cornetto, Chitarro, Movement: Sonata seconda (1 instrument) Giovanni Battista Fontana, Composer
Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp
Giovanni Battista Fontana, Composer
Pamela Thorby, Recorder
(Der) Fluyten Lust-hof, Movement: Amarilli mia bella Jacob van Eyck, Composer
Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp
Jacob van Eyck, Composer
Pamela Thorby, Recorder
Trattado de glosas, Movement: Recercada sobre la canción Doulce Memoire Diego Ortiz, Composer
Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp
Diego Ortiz, Composer
Pamela Thorby, Recorder
Frais et gaillard Giovanni Bassano, Composer
Andrew Lawrence-King, Psaltery
Andrew Lawrence-King, Psaltery
Giovanni Bassano, Composer
Pamela Thorby, Recorder
The title’s a play on both Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights and Jacob van Eyck’s recorder collection The Flute’s Garden of Delight; but more than anything this new disc recalls Herbert’s line “a box where sweets compacted lie”. Straddling the Renaissance and early Baroque, the programme comprises sonatas, sets of divisions and arrangements of songs and popular tunes from Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and England. This repertoire proves rich soil for Thorby and Lawrence-King, and the resulting cross-fertilisation of styles and modes of expression with a modern scholarly aesthetic enlivened by two of the keenest musical intelligences in the business results in a most satisfying listening experience.

Thorby maximises the affective impact of the music through an incredibly varied approach to articulation and phrasing – compare the lively glosses of the delightful opening track, Diego Ortiz’s Recercada segunda de tenore, with the evocative, floating lines of Giovanni Battista Fontana’s Sonata seconda. Lawrence-King is likewise alert to the rhetorical possibilities inherent in both his accompaniments and solos; in the former category, he proves an ideal partner for Thorby in his ability to think vocally, while in the latter his almost visual sense of line and colour is apparent, as in Biagio Marini’s Passacaglio and Dowland’s “Weep you no more”.

Recorded sound is nothing short of stunning, while the cover image of a hummingbird nicely encapsulates Thorby’s lightness and agility as she darts from piece to piece to extract its nectar. This is Paradise indeed.

Garden Of Early Delights

Trattado de glosas, Movement: Recercada segunda de tenore

(Der) Fluyten Lust-hof, Movement: What shall we do this evening? (Wat zal men op den)

(Der) Fluyten Lust-hof, Movement: When Daphne, the most beautiful maiden (Doen Daphnchoone Maeght)

(Der) Fluyten Lust-hof, Movement: Buffoons (Boffons)

Sonata seconda a soprano solo

(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Sorrow sorrow stay, lend true repentant teares

Lachrime pavaen

(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Weepe you no more sad fountaines

Susanne un jour

Recercada II sobre camto llano

Sonate a 1,2,3 per il Violono o Cornetto, Chitarro, Movement: Sonata sesta (1 instrument)

Per ogni sorte di strumento musicale diversi gener, Movement: Passacaglio

Sonate a 1,2,3 per il Violono o Cornetto, Chitarro, Movement: Sonata seconda (1 instrument)

(Der) Fluyten Lust-hof, Movement: Amarilli mia bella

Trattado de glosas, Movement: Recercada sobre la canción Doulce Memoire

Frais et gaillard

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