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What are you listening to? Part III

well I don't have your playlist :p

so you make us guess - but I do love Tomaso Albinoni

Here is my quick guess - at some thing similar - I can check my own library but names seldom match

 
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mikzn said:
well I don't have your playlist :p

so you make us guess - but I do love Tomaso Albinoni

Here is my quick guess - at some thing similar - I can check my own library but names seldom match

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I like - nay love - Baroque music, and share your liking for Tomaso Albinoni; this means that I have quite a few CDs - amassed over the years, that make up that part of the 'classical' section of my much collection (now resident in my computer's iTunes, or my mp3 player).
 
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Music from the 15th century tonight: the singers on this CD are the wonderful group Gothic Voices (with some period instrument players), album is The Dufay Spectacle. These are chamber works, a mix of a cappella and sparsely accompanied motets and chansons. Love Du Fay's sudden modulations. Some of the secular songs are either quite cheeky or plaintive... Check out the one titled Je me complains pitieusement.

Can't find it on You Tube by this group but other performances of some of the songs are up there. I did find the audio for this album on Apple Music.

The Dufay Spectacle - cover art.jpg



The Dufay Spectacle - tracklist.jpg
 
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LizKat said:
Music from the 15th century tonight: the singers on this CD are the wonderful group Gothic Voices (with some period instrument players), album is The Dufay Spectacle. These are chamber works, a mix of a cappella and sparsely accompanied motets and chansons. Love Du Fay's sudden modulations. Some of the secular songs are either quite cheeky or plaintive... Check out the one titled Je me complains pitieusement.

Can't find it on You Tube by this group but other performances of some of the songs are up there. I did find the audio for this album on Apple Music.

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Sounds fascinating - must investigate.

How many of the tracks are instrumental? And how many are voice - i.e. song (accompanied or non-accompanied)?
 
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Sounds fascinating - must investigate.

How many of the tracks are instrumental? And how many are voice - i.e. song (accompanied or non-accompanied)?
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They're all sung. Some of the tracks have a few stretches where the instruments are featured, intros, bridges etc. but mostly they underwrite the singers. Du Fay's secular songs were mostly three-part with two additional parts usually but not always instrumental --there is an extra mezzo soprano on board here-- and used as underpinning. Du Fay also often set the middle of the three vocal parts as fauxbourdon (false drone) to serve that function in his a capella writing. The array of period gear in this recording is fun and it's occasionally featured in flourishes and ornamentation of the lower parts. One almost feels transported to a early Renaissance drawing room... I could try to wear the CD out in short order if I hadn't fished out a download from AM to stick on my gear.
 
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Very recently it’s been:

Nocturnes, Op. 9 - Chopin (with my son at the end of day)

Charlie Parker - Entire catalogue on shuffle

Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy (an old favorite)
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Wonderful; just wonderful.
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Scepticalscribe said:
I like - nay love - Baroque music, and share your liking for Tomaso Albinoni;
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yes 23 terrific tracks and an amazing CD - oddly evenly tempo and consistent tracks

thanks for sharing your enthusiasm for Baroque music, and especially your liking for Tomaso Albinoni; It made me "go back to the well" - I love it!
 
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Winding down the week listening to Saving Abel. The afternoon is clear so hoping to escape early.
 
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