A Meeting Place: Medieval & Renaissance Music for Lute & Ud
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Label: Sono Luminus
Cat No: DSL92133
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 3rd May 2011
Contents
Artists
Munir Nurettin Beken (ud)August Denhard (lute)
Artists
Munir Nurettin Beken (ud)August Denhard (lute)
About
Separated by cultures, continents and centuries of parallel development, the Turkish ud and Western European lute speak different languages today, yet they hark back to a common origin. With the Sono Luminus release of 'A Meeting Place: Medieval & Renaissance Music for Lute & Ud', Mόnir Nurettin Beken and August Denhard explore the improvisatory richness of a performance tradition that their instruments may have shared in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Throughout its long history, the Turkish ud has been played primarily with a plectrum, a technique perfectly suited to the melodically, colourful and sometimes rhythmically intense music of Turkey, the Arab countries and Northern Africa. Moorish musicians brought the instrument to Spain, and Europeans may also have encountered it on the Crusades of the 13th century.
As the ud developed into its European counterpart, the lute, it retained the plectrum, concentrating on single melodic lines. But lute players began to set the plectrum aside as later medieval music developed in polyphonic complexity. Fingers striking strings simultaneously could more easily imitate the two-, three-, and four-part textures of the emerging vocal style. For this recording, plectrum and finger techniques are used on both instruments as the artists explore the many roles that plucked instruments may have played in the medieval and renaissance periods.
Ud virtuoso and composer Mόnir Nurettin Beken began his musical life in 1975 at the age of eleven, studying at the State Conservatory of Istanbul under the famous pedagogue Mutlu Torun, author of an extensive work on the ud method. In 1998, Mr Beken earned a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Maryland.
As a performer on lute, theorbo and baroque guitar, August Denhard has appeared with Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Concord Ensemble, Chicago Music of the Baroque, the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Camarata Pacifica Baroque, and many other ensembles specializing in early music. Mr Denhard has given numerous solo recitals and is in demand as an accompanist of 17th century vocal music. He performs regularly in a lute song duo with tenor Eric Mentzel and with Baroque Northwest.
'A Meeting Place: Medieval & Renaissance Music for Lute & Ud' will truly delight fans of early music, Renaissance festival attendees, and traditional classical music enthusiasts.
Track Listing:
1. Greensleeves Anonymous (16th century)
2. Piva Joanambrosio Dalza (fl.1508)
3. Estampie Fragment anonymous in Robertsbridge Codex (c.1360)
4. Recercada I Diego Ortiz (c. 1515-60)
5. Nota I anonymous in British Lib. Harley 978 (13th century)
6. Estampie anonymous in Robertsbridge
7. Estampie IV anonymous in Chansonnier du Roi (13th century)
8. Lamento da Tristano, Rotta anonymous in British Lib. 29987 (c.1400)
9. Spagna for two lutes Francesco Canova da Milano (1497-1543)
10. Aspire refus contre doulce priere Jacopo da Bologna (fl.1340), Faenza Codex (15th century)
11. Notas II and III anonymous in British Lib. Harley 978
12. La Manfredina Estampie anonymous in British Lib. 29987
13. Douce Dame Jolie Guillaume de Machaut (ca.1300-77)
14. Belle Fiore Dansa anonymous in Faenza
15. Untitled anonymous in Faenza
16. Un fiore gentile mapparse Antonio Zacara da Teramo (fl.1390), Faenza
17. Calata ala Spagnola Joanambrosio Dalza
18. Saltarello anonymous in British Lib. 29987
19. Buselik Saz Semaisi Mutlu Torun (1972)
Total Time: 49:55
Throughout its long history, the Turkish ud has been played primarily with a plectrum, a technique perfectly suited to the melodically, colourful and sometimes rhythmically intense music of Turkey, the Arab countries and Northern Africa. Moorish musicians brought the instrument to Spain, and Europeans may also have encountered it on the Crusades of the 13th century.
As the ud developed into its European counterpart, the lute, it retained the plectrum, concentrating on single melodic lines. But lute players began to set the plectrum aside as later medieval music developed in polyphonic complexity. Fingers striking strings simultaneously could more easily imitate the two-, three-, and four-part textures of the emerging vocal style. For this recording, plectrum and finger techniques are used on both instruments as the artists explore the many roles that plucked instruments may have played in the medieval and renaissance periods.
Ud virtuoso and composer Mόnir Nurettin Beken began his musical life in 1975 at the age of eleven, studying at the State Conservatory of Istanbul under the famous pedagogue Mutlu Torun, author of an extensive work on the ud method. In 1998, Mr Beken earned a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Maryland.
As a performer on lute, theorbo and baroque guitar, August Denhard has appeared with Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Concord Ensemble, Chicago Music of the Baroque, the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Camarata Pacifica Baroque, and many other ensembles specializing in early music. Mr Denhard has given numerous solo recitals and is in demand as an accompanist of 17th century vocal music. He performs regularly in a lute song duo with tenor Eric Mentzel and with Baroque Northwest.
'A Meeting Place: Medieval & Renaissance Music for Lute & Ud' will truly delight fans of early music, Renaissance festival attendees, and traditional classical music enthusiasts.
Track Listing:
1. Greensleeves Anonymous (16th century)
2. Piva Joanambrosio Dalza (fl.1508)
3. Estampie Fragment anonymous in Robertsbridge Codex (c.1360)
4. Recercada I Diego Ortiz (c. 1515-60)
5. Nota I anonymous in British Lib. Harley 978 (13th century)
6. Estampie anonymous in Robertsbridge
7. Estampie IV anonymous in Chansonnier du Roi (13th century)
8. Lamento da Tristano, Rotta anonymous in British Lib. 29987 (c.1400)
9. Spagna for two lutes Francesco Canova da Milano (1497-1543)
10. Aspire refus contre doulce priere Jacopo da Bologna (fl.1340), Faenza Codex (15th century)
11. Notas II and III anonymous in British Lib. Harley 978
12. La Manfredina Estampie anonymous in British Lib. 29987
13. Douce Dame Jolie Guillaume de Machaut (ca.1300-77)
14. Belle Fiore Dansa anonymous in Faenza
15. Untitled anonymous in Faenza
16. Un fiore gentile mapparse Antonio Zacara da Teramo (fl.1390), Faenza
17. Calata ala Spagnola Joanambrosio Dalza
18. Saltarello anonymous in British Lib. 29987
19. Buselik Saz Semaisi Mutlu Torun (1972)
Total Time: 49:55
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