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Music for Gainsborough
by his contemporaries
charivari agréable
Susanne Heinrich
Kah-Ming Ng
Lynda Sayce
with
Reiko Ichise
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"Just the sounds to be heard in the
wealthy households whose inhabitants Gainsborough painted so
memorably"
Gramophone
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Performance Notes
| Susanne Heinrich |
(a) 6-string bass viol Merion D. Attwood 1999 |
| Reiko Ichise |
(b) 7-string bass viol David Rubio 1988 |
| Lynda Sayce |
(c) mandora Edward Fitzgibbon 1996
(d) 13-course baroque lute Michael Lowe 1998 |
| Kah-Ming Ng |
(e) harpsichord Jacob Kirkman 1776
(f) chamber organ Vincent Woodstock 1996 |
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| Carl Friedrich Abel (1723 - 1787):
Sonata No. 1 in G major, from ‘The Countess of Pembroke’s Music
Book’ |
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| 1 |
- Allegretto |
a |
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c |
f |
[3:46] |
| 2 |
- Adagio |
a |
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c |
f |
[1:54] |
| 3 |
- Allegro |
a |
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c |
f |
[2:00] |
| 4 |
Johann Christian Bach (1735 - 1782): (4)
‘Trust me wou’d you taste true pleasure’ from The Maid of the Mill
(arr. S. Heinrich & L. Sayce) |
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c |
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[5:17] |
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Anonymous: (5) (‘In diesen heil’gen Hallen’)
from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, an untitled contemporary arrangement in
‘The Countess of Pembroke’s Music Book’ |
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[2:25] |
| 6 |
Thomas Linley, sen.: (1733 - 1795): (6) ‘I
will never vow truth at the feet fair’ (transc. S. Heinrich), from
‘The Posthumous Vocal Works of Mr Linley and Mr T. Linley’ (London, c.
1798) |
a |
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[1:37] |
| 7 |
Carl Friedrich Abel: (7) Vivace, from US-NYp
MS Drexel 5871 |
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[4:32] |
| 8 |
Thomas Linley, jun.: (1756 - 1778): (8) ‘If
thy too cruel bow be bent’ (arr. S. Heinrich), from In Yonder Grove
(1773) |
a |
b |
c |
f |
[4:01] |
| Rudolf Straube (1717 - 1785):
from GB-Lbl Add. MS 31698 |
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| 9 |
Fantasie |
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d |
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[2:45] |
| 10 |
Windsor Forest |
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[1:19] |
| 11 |
Allegro |
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d |
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[1:22] |
| 12 |
(The Lass of Peatie’s
Mill) |
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[1:06] |
| 13 |
Hornpipe |
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[0:57] |
| 14 |
Menuet I & II |
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[3:24] |
| 15 |
Felice de Giardini (1716 - 1796): Andante from
Sonata Op. 13/2 (arr. S. Heinrich) |
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b |
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[4:45] |
| J. C. Bach: Sonata Op. 17/5 in A
major: |
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| 16 |
- Allegro |
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e |
[8:33] |
| 17 |
- Presto |
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[5:02] |
| 18 |
Rudolf Straube: Adagio from Sonata I (1746) |
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[4:05] |
| 19 |
Thomas Linley, sen.: ‘Ah could you possibly
know’ from ‘The Posthumous Vocal Works’ (arr. S. Heinrich) |
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[2:18] |
| Carl Friedrich Abel: Sonata in G
major WKO 147 |
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| 20 |
- Allegro moderato |
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b |
c |
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[4:45] |
| 21 |
- Adagio |
a |
b |
c |
e |
[1:55] |
| 22 |
- Rondeau |
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b |
c |
e |
[1:43] |
| 23 |
- Romance/Majeur |
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b |
c |
e |
[2:23] |
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Total running time: |
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[72:48] |
Pitch A = 415 Hz.
Keyboards tuned by Kah-Ming Ng in Young and Valotti temperaments.
Acknowledgements
Front cover: ‘Ann Ford, later Mrs Philip Thicknesse’ (1760) by Thomas Gainsborough
Credit: Cincinatti Art Museum, USA (bequest of Mary M. Emery)
We gratefully acknowledge the loan of instruments by Dr Daphne Briggs (d) and Mr Justin Majzub (e).
We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of Abjad Ltd in making this recording possible.
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Recorded:
15th-17th January 2000
St Andrew's Church, Toddington, Gloucestershire
Production, editing & engineering:
Adrian Hunter
Booklet Notes:
Lynda Sayce
Translations:
French: Robert Bagur
German: Arne Spohr
Text and translation editor:
Christine Darby
Booklet cover design:
ATX Design Associates
Booklet layout and typesetting:
Jan Hart
Copyright:
© Copyright 2000 Signum Records Ltd
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