Thurston Dart - Consort Music (2019) Flac

With this and several other albums issued in 2019, Eloquence celebrates the art of Thurston Dart, the harpsichordist, conductor and editor who played a leading role in the early-music revival in postwar Britain. After his death in 1971 at the age of just 49, his fellow harpsichordist Igor Kipnis paid fulsome tribute to 'a man of many parts', whose 1954 volume on The Interpretation of Musichad attained testamentary authority among his fellow musicians, matched by the skill, style and flourish of his many recordings. 'He was the ideal musicologist-performer.' Thurston Dart prepared the performing editions of nearly all the music on this CD compilation, but he struck a fine balance between scholarly rectitude, practical concerns and a performer's instincts. For the 1957 album of Lachrymaehe rearranged Dowland'soriginal sequence of seven linked pavans(all in the same key) followed by 14 other pieces, and produced instead an extended and varied dance-suite, representing the introvert and extrovert sides of the composer side by side. Mixing old and new instruments, he directed a modern string band playing with old-style bows, plus viols, lute and harpsichord.
Tracklist
01. Lachrimae, 1604 Lachrimae Antiquae
02. Lachrimae, 1604 Sir John Souch, his Galiard
03. Lachrimae, 1604 Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
04. Lachrimae, 1604 The King of Denmark's Galiard
05. Lachrimae, 1604 Lachrimae Gementes
06. Lachrimae, 1604 The Earl of Essex Galiard
07. Lachrimae, 1604 Lachrimae Tristes
08. Lachrimae, 1604 M. Thomas Collier his Galiard
09. Lachrimae, 1604 Lachrimae Coactae
10. Lachrimae, 1604 M. Nicolas Gryffith his Galiard
11. Lachrimae, 1604 Mrs Nichols Almand
12. Lachrimae, 1604 Lachrimae Amantis
13. Lachrimae, 1604 The Earl of Essex Galiard
14. Lachrimae, 1604 Lachrimae Verae
15. Lachrimae, 1604 Captaine Digorie Piper his Galiard
16. Lachrimae, 1604 Semper Dowland semper dolens
17. Lachrimae, 1604 M. Giles Hobies Galiard
18. Lachrimae, 1604 Sir Henry Upton's Funeral
19. Lachrimae, 1604 M. Buctons Galiard
20. Lachrimae, 1604 M. John Langton's Pavan
21. Lachrimae, 1604 M. George Whithead his Almand
22. Suite, for violin, bass viol and chamber organ (Musical Britannica 98 Fantasy
23. Suite, for violin, bass viol and chamber organ (Musical Britannica 98 Alman
24. Suite, for violin, bass viol and chamber organ (Musical Britannica 98 Ayre
25. Miserere (from Parthenia In-Violata, c.1620)
26. Ayre, for two bass viols and continuo
27. Fantasia, for 2 violins, bass viol and continuo
28. Suite, for 2 violins, bass viol and chamber organ (Musica Britannica 102) Fantasy
29. Suite, for 2 violins, bass viol and chamber organ (Musica Britannica 102) Alman
30. Suite, for 2 violins, bass viol and chamber organ (Musica Britannica 102) Galliard
31. Suite for violin, bass viol and chamber organ (Musica Britannica 99) Fantasy
32. Suite for violin, bass viol and chamber organ (Musica Britannica 99) Alman
33. Suite for violin, bass viol and chamber organ (Musica Britannica 99) Ayre
34. Captain Hume's Galliard (Musica Britannica 122)
35. Fantasia (Musica Britannica 8)
36. Captain Hume's Lamentations
37. Galliard (Musica Britannica 17)
38. Pavan
39. Ricercar
40. Alman
41. Passamezzo Pavana
42. Pavan The Funerals
43. Galliard
44. Almaine The Honie-suckle
45. Coranto Heigh - Ho Holiday
46. Four-Note Pavan
47. The Temporiser
48. The Witty Wanton
49. Ayre
50. Four-Note Pavan
51. Galliard
52. Alman
53. Coranto