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Suzanne van Soldt Manuscript Anonymous, Les Witches, Sébastien Wonner
Manuscrit Susanne van Soldt
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (15) - Disc #1
1. Brande Champanje, for keyboard
2. Preludium, for keyboard
3. Allemande la Nonette, de Frans Galliard, for keyboard: Almande de La nonette
4. Allemande la Nonette, de Frans Galliard, for keyboard: De frans galliard
5. Ghij Herder Israels Wylt Hooren, for keyboard
6. Wt de diepte o Heere, for keyboard
7. Almande Brun Smeedelyn, for keyboard
8. Als een Hert gejaecht (Psalm 42), for keyboard
9. Pavane dan Vers, for keyboard
10. Heer, ich wil v wt 's Herten gront (Psalm No. 9), for keyboard
11. Susanna Vung Jour, for keyboard
12. Almande de symmerman, for keyboard
13. Myn God (Psalm 23) for keyboard (1599 Notebook No. 8)
14. Alemande Loreyne, for keyboard
15. Brabanschen ronden dans ofte Brand, for keyboard

CD Details

All Artists: Suzanne van Soldt Manuscript Anonymous, Les Witches, Sébastien Wonner
Title: Manuscrit Susanne van Soldt
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: ALPHA PRODUCTIONS
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 9/9/2008
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 3760014195266

Synopsis

Album Description

Dances, songs & psalms by anonymous composers, from Susanne van Soldt's copybook (1599) For this new release, Alpha asked Les Witches to work on Susanne van Soldt's famous manuscript from the late 16th century, comprising dances, songs, and psalms adapted to the virginal or the harpsichord. The majority of pieces in the manuscript are reductions for the keyboard. Based on these reductions, Les Witches had to imagine the "original" versions for instrumental ensembles, then recreate the tonal colors that we see in Brueghel's country fairs, weddings, and village feasts. Let's get up and dance!

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CD Reviews

Period riffs to please modern ears

Orgelbear | 10/22/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Susanne van Soldt was a teenager when her Protestant family left Antwerp to escape persecution during the Spanish invasion of the Netherlands. Among the items that Susanne took to the family's new home in London was a manuscript, dated 1599, in which she kept keyboard reductions of popular dances and psalm tunes. Susanne would have played the pieces in this book (now in the British Library) on the virginal. (This approach is taken by Guy Penson for his virginal performances of the MS on a Ricecar CD.) But the period ensemble Les Witches use the manuscript as a starting point to recreate fleshed-out ensemble performances based on depictions of domestic and public musicales by Brueghel and Vermeer. The instruments seen in the paintings inspired this CD's colorful instrumental palette, which includes violin, lute, bagpipes, virginal, cabinet organ, and percussion. Les Witches play most of the selections as the kind of spirited, rhythmically vibrant improvisations that would have been heard in musical get-togethers of the day. In a few instances, the musicians use the simple Psalms in the manuscript as reason to include well-known period elaborations of the tunes, for example van Eyck's recorder variations on Psalm 9 and Sweelinck's lute version of Psalm 23. Ultimately, it doesn't matter how accurately Les Witches may have recreated a 17th-century sound or Susanne's book, because these lusty, ebullient performances are a delight from beginning to end."