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AV 0036
The Siena Lute Book

Jacob Heringman plays the Siena Lute Book

Released Date:
01 Apr 2007

Originally recorded in 2007

Artists:

Jacob Heringman

lute

Venue:

Church of St Michael and all Angels, Great Tew, Oxfordshire



Producer:

Adrian Hunter



Engineer:

Adrian Hunter



Record Label
Avie Records

Genre:

Chamber


Early Music

Total Time - 71:44
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The Siena Lute Book

 

DA PARIGI FRANCESCO

(early to mid 16thc.?)
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1 

[Fantasia?]

3:32
 

ANONYMOUS

2 

[Fantasia?]

3:34
 

FRANCESCO DA MILANO

(1497-1543)
3 

[Fantasia?]

4:02
4 

[Ricercar?]

1:07
 

ANONYMOUS

(Francesco da Milano?)
5 

[Fantasia?]

3:03
 

FRANCESCO DA MILANO

6 

[Recercata]

1:12
 

ANONYMOUS

7 

Fantasia

3:27
8 

Passemezo del giorgio

2:27
 

FRANCESCO DA MILANO

9 

Ricercata

1:53
 

FABRIZIO DENTICE

? (c. 1539?-1581)
10 

[Fantasia]

5:37
 

PERINO FIORENTINO

(1523-1552)
11 

[Fantasia?]

3:04
 

FABRIZIO DENTICE

12 

[Fantasia?]

2:48
 

ANONYMOUS

13 

Spagna detta Lamire. Quarto Modo

1:30
14 

Spagna detta Lamire. Secondo Modo

1:20
 

GIULIO SEGNI DA MODENA

(1498-1561)
15 

[Ricercar ottavo]

2:06
 

CLEMENT JANEQUIN

/anon. lute setting
16 

Orsus orsus [Or sus, or sus vous dormes]

5:35
 

FRANCESCO DA MILANO

17 

Ricerchare

2:11
 

PIERRE SANDRIN

/anon. lute setting
18 

La volunté

3:26
 

THOMAS CRECQUILLON

/anaon. lute setting
19 

[Pour ung plaisir]

3:25
 

ANONYMOUS

20 

Fantasia

1:47
 

GIULIO SEVERINO

(late 16th c.)
21 

[Fantasia?]

3:36
 

FRANCESCO DA MILANO

22 

Fantasia

2:09
 

ANONYMOUS

23 

[Balletto]

1:38
24 

[Gagliarda]

2:21
25 

[Gagliarda]

1:59
 

FABRIZIO DENTICE

26 

[Fantasia?]

2:55


Jacob Heringman is one of the world’s most respected and innovative solo lute players. He is well known for his extensive discography of over 50 CDs as a soloist, collaborator and ensemble player. His well-earned reputation for seeking out rare and unjustly neglected renaissance repertoire is borne out by The Siena Lute Book, one of the richest and most important sources of 16th-century Italian lute music. Represented in this expansive anthology are the great Francisco da Milano, the neglected master Fabritio Dentice, Giulio Severino, Pierino Fiorentino, as well as the mysterious FB and BM, the latter described by Galilei as a "Florentine gentleman".

"A rather unappealing cover design verifies the proverb never judge a book (or CD), by its cover! Lutenist Jacob Heringman here presents an engaging compilation of lute music from sixteenth century Italy. These works have been preserved mainly in the eponymous Siena Lute Book, whilst a few tracks come from the less substantial and less meticulously-organised Medici lute book, so-called on account of the Medici insignia on the first page. Despite the fact that the Siena Lute Book has ended up in The Hague and the Medici book in Haslemere (Dolmetsch Library), they both originate from Tuscany and are mostly in the same hand of an anonymous scribe. The disc comprises works by both top musicians of the day, such as Perino Florentino and Francesco da Milano and by anonymous composers, as well as contemporary arrangements of songs. In a number of cases Jacob Heringman has rearranged or reconstructed the works for their present versions.

The playing itself is exemplary, unsurprisingly so given Heringman’s expertise in this area. The works are charming and sweet to the ear if possibly a little uninspiring at times. Whilst the theory goes that by ranging from fantasias and arrangements of French songs to madrigals and dances, this CD offers an assortment of lute music giving an idea of the broad spectrum of works current at the time, in practice the sound offers little respite or variation and could possibly, depending on the listener’s devotion towards renaissance lute music, wear a little thin. For the fan, however, this collection offers a good selection of both unknown and better-known works, delightfully and authoritatively performed by one whose passion for this delicate, lilting, elegant and often courtly music clearly shines through.

One rather felt that the presentation and design of this CD does not do its contents, or the high standard of Heringman’s playing, justice. Dismal front cover aside, the sleeve-notes could be more comprehensive, both in terms of clarification (Richard Falkenstein, in the main discussion of the disc, refers to the Medici Lute Book as "Haslemere", whereas elsewhere in the booklet it is consistently called the Medici Lute Book, thereby inviting confusion) and in terms of Heringman’s own notes on the tracks, which cover a seemingly randomly selected 14 tracks out of the 26! The sound is excellent. One for lute music devotees, one feels, though, rather than for a wider audience."


Em Marshall 

MusicWeb International



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