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| 1. Fantasia X Que Contrahaze La Harpa En La Manera De Ludovico | |||
| 2. Quatro Diferencias | |||
| 3. 22 Diferencias De Conde Claros | |||
| 4. The Woods So Wild | |||
| 5. Lost Is My Liberty | |||
| 6. Fantasia | |||
| 7. Semper Dowland Semper Dolens | |||
| 8. Dowland's galliard | |||
| 9. Melancholy Galliard | |||
| 10. Lady Hundson's Puffe | |||
| 11. Lachrimae | |||
| 12. The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth | |||
| 13. Go From My Window | |||
| 14. Come Away (Come Again) | |||
| 15. Can She Excuse | |||
| 16. Poper's Pavan | |||
| 17. Captain Digorie Piper's galliard | |||
| 18. Fancy No. 1 | |||
| 19. Fancy No. 2 | |||
| 20. Fantasia Xlll | |||
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Album Description
GRAMMY-award winning classical guitarist David Russell takes listeners on a captivating journey back to the Renaissance period. The release marks Russell's eleventh recording for Telarc and his first comprehensive study of the Renaissance era.
"English, Italian, and Spanish composers in the decades around 1600 created an especially rich repertory of works for lute and guitar, instruments highly prized both for cultivated social use and at court. This recital by David Russell captures the spirit of that great age of music through some of its most enduring compositions." Says Richard Rodda in the liner notes.
The recording includes pieces by familiar as well as lesser known composers from the Renaissance era. From the canon of John Dowland, Russell performs "Come Away (Come Again)", "Go From My Window" and "Fantasia", as well as Dowland's lesser-known "Semper Dowland Semper Dolens", "Piper's Pavan" and "Lady Hunsdon's Puffe". Other works include Francesco Canova de Milano's "Fantasia XIII, VI and XX", William Byrd's "The Woods So Wild", Pietro Paolo Borrono's "Peschatore che va cantando" and Joan Ambrosio Dalza's "Piva."
David Russell is heralded worldwide for his superb musicianship and inspired artistry, having earned the highest praise from audiences and critics alike. In recognition of his great talent and his international acclaim, he was named a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Music in London in 1997. Most recently, he won a GRAMMY Award in the U.S. for his 2004 Telarc release, 'Aire Latino' (Best Instrumental Soloist in Classical Music).
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
ALMOST "LUTE LIKE"
10 Jan 2007
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David Russell has been part of my guitar listening experience for sometime now. He truly is a phenomenal guitarist. On this album he plays many of what I call "Renaissance Hits" on, of course, the "acoustic" guitar. I had to listen very close to determine that he really was playing these Renaissance works on the guitar and not on the lute itself. He does a fantastic job of replicating the sound of the lute and what I consider the "Renaissance Style ", The album contains a good sample of Renaissance music with y works by John Dowland, Pietro Borrono, William Byrd and of course by that ubiquitous "Anonymous." I feel that this album could really be valuable as an introduction to the beauties of "Renaissance Music". Anyway, David Russell plays the works contained therein splendidly with very beautiful tone
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
One of my very favourite albums!
19 Jun 2009
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David Russell's album of Renaissance lute pieces works beautifully on the modern classical guitar. He eschews contemporary Spanish guitar techniques like glissando, heavy vibrato, slurring, and portamento. David presents these pieces as they would sound played by a first rate lutenist.
Mr. Russell's touch is light and graceful, and he invests a great deal of feeling in his exquisite phrasing, ornamentation, and lively rhythms. He also employs a capo to raise the pitch of the guitar up two frets to be closer to the range of a Renaissance lute. The modern guitar is tuned EADGBE from 6th to 1st strings, while modern lutenists nominally tune to GCFADG from 6th to 1st strings with added bass strings to expand the range of the instrument. Historical lutes are seen early in the 1500s with 6 pairs of strings. Later decades adopted added "courses" or pairs of strings in the lower register.
Surviving Renaissance instruments include 6 course, 7 course, 8 course, and 10 course lutes. Modern guitarists who play this repertoire will often tune the 6th string down a step or play written bass notes an octave higher.
I never tire of listening to this album and especially enjoy his interpretation of the master Elizabethan lute composer, John Dowland.
David Russell's playing is a breath of fresh air among the myriad classical guitar players who rely on showy technique and forceful, hard as nails tone.
Mr. Russell's touch is light and graceful, and he invests a great deal of feeling in his exquisite phrasing, ornamentation, and lively rhythms. He also employs a capo to raise the pitch of the guitar up two frets to be closer to the range of a Renaissance lute. The modern guitar is tuned EADGBE from 6th to 1st strings, while modern lutenists nominally tune to GCFADG from 6th to 1st strings with added bass strings to expand the range of the instrument. Historical lutes are seen early in the 1500s with 6 pairs of strings. Later decades adopted added "courses" or pairs of strings in the lower register.
Surviving Renaissance instruments include 6 course, 7 course, 8 course, and 10 course lutes. Modern guitarists who play this repertoire will often tune the 6th string down a step or play written bass notes an octave higher.
I never tire of listening to this album and especially enjoy his interpretation of the master Elizabethan lute composer, John Dowland.
David Russell's playing is a breath of fresh air among the myriad classical guitar players who rely on showy technique and forceful, hard as nails tone.
David Russell Rennaisance Guitar album
25 Mar 2012
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David Russell has a beautiful tone and seems to pick some less commonly played pieces for his albums and performances. I love when artists pick more obscure compositions because it exposes people like me (without a serious music background) to things we might not normally know about.
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