Hume Passion and Division

Heinrich brings poetry and personality to Hume’s deeply evocative utterances

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Tobias Hume

Genre:

Instrumental

Label: Hyperion

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 71

Mastering:

Stereo
DDD

Catalogue Number: CDA67811

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: Loves Pastime Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: A Jigge Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: Harke, Harke Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: Rossamond Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: Touch me lightly Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: The Duke of Holstones Almayne Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: A Souldiers Resolution Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: I am Melancholy Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: Tickell, Tickell Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: A French Ayre Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: Deth Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: Life Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: ~ Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: Tinckeldum, twinckeldum Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: Captain Humes Pavan Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: A Souldiers Galliard Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: Loves Farewell Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer
Captaine Humes Musicall Humors, Movement: Now I Come Tobias Hume, Composer
Susanne Heinrich, Viola da gamba
Tobias Hume, Composer

If you enjoyed Susanne Heinrich’s solo Abel album (1/08), you’ll want this release. Hume’s music stands at the opposite end of the period in which solo viol playing flourished in England but offers a comparable level of technical and musical challenge to the performer. Heinrich raises the stakes by using gut strings without silver or copper winding in the lower register (metal-wound strings post-date Hume) – something many players today would find too risky because they speak grudgingly and produce a slightly gruffer sound than wound strings. The rewards for doing so justify the perils: the lowest notes of bass-lines breathe uncannily and blend seamlessly in chords.

This is not the first time a performer has devoted a disc to “Captain Humes Musicall Humors” – Jordi Savall recorded selections in 2004 and several others, Sarah Cunningham (1992) and Vittorio Ghielmi (2004) among them, have included pieces by Hume in albums of English music; Heinrich herself contributed some to Charivari Agréable’s “Queen’s Goodnight” (2002) – but this one offers listeners selections not previously recorded.

Ah, but the music! The melancholy of the opening and closing tracks is bewitching. Here, and elsewhere on the disc, Heinrich dramatically – often poetically – conveys Hume’s deeply personal, seemingly reflective musical utterances. If little is known of his life, the fact that he shared a patron with Shakespeare (the Earl of Pembroke) is enough to realise that in his day his music was taken seriously. Heinrich includes mercurial, conversational pieces that tease the listener (tr 2, 4 and 15) and those that evoke the lute (in “Harke, harke” Hume sought to surpass it with col legno effects). Elsewhere she brilliantly captures his military swagger and bravura (tr 8 and 17), evoking trumpets and drums and a sense of marching into the distance. Bravo!

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