Vestiva

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Cat No: FHR137

Release Date: 12 January 2024

Label: First Hand Records

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5060216346137

Genres: Classical Rennaissance

Description

Vestiva features virtuosic diminutions and embellishment practices of the 16th and 17th centuries, both historical and newly written, and improvised by the performers, based on historical treatises.

'Vestiva: not only our red thread throughout the album, referring to one of our favourite madrigal hits Vestiva i colli, but also a metaphorical motto: "dressing up" the music with colours, diminutions, trilli, accenti ... (as the hills, the colli, in the original madrigal text are dressed up with flowers) in the balancing act of pure flexibility and absolute punctuality or momentum - creating spoken "words" with a minimal, reduced instrumentation and without actual sung text. Working in this minimal, fragile and intimate instrumental setting with lute, harp and recorders while trying to reach maximum expression is an absolute challenge and pure joy.'

LUX MUSICAE LONDON

Mijam-Luise Münzel violin

Aileen Henry harp

Toby Carr lute

"This disc is a fine demonstration of some of the main aspects of performance practice in music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, thanks to the invention and playing skills of the three artists. This seems to be the first recording of their ensemble. It is a promising debut, and I hope to hear more from them in the years to come." – MusicWeb International

"Vestiva explores how the art of embellishment revolutionised instrumental music in the 16th and 17th centuries, allowing performers to openly flaunt both their virtuosic and improvisatory skills alike. [...] This is an album of pleasing variety." – BBC Music Magazine ****

'The results could so easily have sounded 'worthy', but in the hands of these gifted musicians the music comes wonderfully to life, and we are given a little flavour of how embellishment became such an indispensable skill for musicians of this period.' – Early Music Review
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