Terpsichore

Praetorius: Terpsichore
New London Consort - Philip Pickett
L'Oiseau Lyre 414 633

Contents:

  1. No. 286: Passameze (a 6; 3 cornetts, 3 sackbuts, regal, timpani, 2 violins, 2 violas, cello, double-bass, 2 harps, archlute, theorbo, harpsichord, 5 recorders, curtal, organ)
    No. 287: Galliard (a 5; 2 violins, 2 violas, cello, double-bass, harpsichord, 4 recorders, curtal, archlute, theorbo)
  2. No. 32: La bourée (a 4; 3 curtals, rackett, regal)
  3. No. 15: Bransle de la torche (a 5; 2 violins, 2 violas, cello, double-bass, harpsichord, 2 archlutes, 2 harps)
  4. No. 4: Bransles simples / Bransles gay / Bransles doubles (a 5; 2 harps)
  5. No. 14: Bransles de villages (a 5; 2 violins, 2 violas, cello, double-bass, great bass viol, hurdy-gurdy, 2 lutes)
  6. No. 22: Philou (a 4; 2 violins, 2 violas, cello, dulcimer, xylophone)
  7. No. 212: Ballet des sorciers (a 4; 3 shawms, curtal, side drum)
    No. 277: Ballet des Princesses (a 4; 4 flutes, lute, tambourine)
    No. 278: Ballet (a 4; 4 recorders, organ, tambourine)
    No. 277: Ballet des Princesses (a 4; 4 flutes, lute, tambourine)
  8. No. 274: Ballet (a 4; 4 racketts, regal)
    No. 278: Ballet des bacchanales (a 4; 4 crumhorns, regal)
    No. 280: Ballet des matelotz (a 4; 4 sackbuts)
    No. 254: Ballet des coqs (a 5; 2 cornetts, 3 sackbuts, 2 recorders, 2 rauschpfeifen, 2 shawms, curtal, regal, organ, 2 side drums)
  9. No. 15, arr. Pickett: Bransle de la torche (a 5; 4 schreierpfeifen, regal, tabor)
  10. No. 30: Pavane de Spaigne (a 4; harpsichord, lute, theorbo)
    No. 28: Spagnoletta (a 4; 2 lutes)
  11. No. 288: Passameze pour les cornetz (a 6; 2 cornetts, 4 sackbuts, organ, bass drum)
  12. No. 150: Courante M.M. Wustrow (a 4; 2 violins, bass viol, great bass viol, harpsichord)
    No. 179: Courante (a 4; 4 flutes)
    No. 48: Courrant de bataglia (a 5; 2 trumpets, 3 sackbuts, curtal, organ, regal, timpani)
  13. No. 33: La sarabande (a 5; violin, lira da braccio, lute, organ, cello)
  14. No. 199: Volte du tambour (a 5; 2 cornetts, 3 sackbuts, regal, 2 side drums)
    No. 243: Volte (a 4; 4 flutes, lute, tabor)
  15. No. 242: Volte (a 4; 4 sorduns, regal, tabor)
    No. 223: Volte (a 5; 4 rauschpfeifen, shawm, tabor)
    No. 210: Volte (a 5; 5 recorders, organ, tabor)
    No. 211: Volte (a 5; 2 violins, 2 violas, cello, double-bass, harpsichord, tabor)
    No. 236: Volte (a 4; 2 cornetts, sackbut, curtal, tabor)
    No. 201: Volte (a 5; 2 violins, 2 violas, cello, double-bass, harpsichord, archlute, theorbo, 2 harps, trumpet, 2 cornetts, 4 sackbuts, rauschpfeife, 4 recorders, curtal, regal, organ, 2 tabors)

Performers: Simon Standage, Pavlo Beznosiuk: Renaissance violins; Jan Schlapp, Annette Isserlis: violas; Anthony Pleeth: cello; Amanda McNamara: double-bass; Richard Campbell: bass viol; William Hunt: great bass viol; Pavlo Beznosiuk: lira da braccio; Nigel Eaton: hurdy-gurdy; Frances Kelly, Andrew Lawrence-King: double harps; Tom Finucane, Paula Chateauneuf: lutes, archlutes, theorbos; Michael Laird, Jonathan Impett, Mark Bennett: trumpets; Michael Laird, Jeremy West, Jonathan Impett: cornetts; Richard Cheetham, Paul Nieman, Kennedth Hamilton, Stephen Suanders: sackbuts; Philip Pickett, Miguel Lawrence, Keith McGowan, William Lyons, Penny Pay, Marion Scott, Kathleen Stubbings: recorders; Lisa Beznosiuk, Jonathan Morgan, Nancy Hadden, Miguel Lawrence: flutes; Philip Pickett, Miguel Lawrence, Marion Scott, William Lyons, Kathleen Stubbings: schreierpfeifen; Keith McGowan, Penny Pay, Andrew Watts, Phillip Pickett: crumhorns; Philip Pickett, William Lyons, Penny Pay: shawms; Phillip Pickett, Penny Pay, Andrew Watts: curtals, Philip Pickett, Penny Pay, Keith McGowan, Andrew Watts: racketts, Philip Pickett, Keith McGowan, Penny Pay, William Lyons: sorduns; Keith McGowan, Philip Pickett, William Lyons, Andrew Watts: rauschpfeifen; David Roblou: regal, organ, harpsichord; Timothy Roberts: organ; John Toll: harpsichord; Stephen Henderson, David Corkhill: percussion

Playing time: 49'

Recording date: March 1985

Additional information from Frank Cone.

Another recording by the present ensemble devoted to Praetorius:

Praetorius: Nativitas
New London Consort - Philip Pickett
L'Oiseau-Lyre 458 025

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Todd M. McComb