Release Date: 01 January 2000
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943412626
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Hume/Captain Humes Poeticall Music Vol 1
Description
Tobias Hume(c.1575?-1645)Captain HumesPoeticall Musicke (1607)Relatively little isknown of Tobias Hume. His date of birth has been inferred from his admission,in 1629, as a pensioner, to the Charterhouse, where regulations stipulated thatthose admitted should have reached the age of sixty, but the inference seemsopen to question. He published two collections of pieces for viols and songs, TheFirst Part of Ayres in 1605 and Captain Humes Poeticall Musicke in1607. His dedication of the first of these, to Lord William, Earle ofPembrooke, L. Herbert of Cardyf, L. Par and Rosse of Kendall, Lord Marmion, andS. Quintin, Lord Warden of the Stannaries, and Knight of the Most Noble Orderof the Garter, tells us something of him: My Life hath beene a Souldier,and my idleness addicted to Musiicke, of both which I here doe offer theservice to your best worthy selfe. His second collection is dedicated toQueen Anne, in an apparently desperate attempt to secure royal favour. Thethird Earl of Pembroke, identified by some as the Mr W.H. to whom Shakespeare'ssonnets are dedicated, was an important patron, but seems to have failed tooblige Captain Hume. In 1607 he offers this last hope of my labours, to yourmost princely acceptance, humbly imploring that, it would please yourthrice-royall spirit, not to esteeme my Songs unmusicall, because my Fortune isout of tune. This dedication again seems to have had no positive result.From other sources, notably his application in 1611 to King Charles I forpermission to engage in a military expedition under the King of Sweden, arequest that was denied, it may be gathered that Hume had had varied experienceas a soldier, including in the service of the Swedish King, who now asked forhis return. The next documentary evidence of his life is found in hisapplication in 1629 to enter the Charterhouse as a 'poor brother'. In 1642,apparently in some distress, he seeks money from Parliament, describing himselfas a colonel and hoping to enter military service again, now, seemingly, nearlyseventy, in the expedition to suppress the rebels in Ireland. He died in 1645.It will be gathered that the conjectural date of birth of 1569 offered by some,based on the supposition that he must have been sixty when he applied to enterthe Charterhouse in 1629, leads to gross improbabilities. Others have suggesteda date in the region of 1575 for his birth and this at least makes marginallymore credible his hope of renewed military service in 1642. Problems ofchronology lie in the fact that by 1605 he had already had experience,seemingly abroad, as a soldier, but then military life could start relativelyearly. The Charterhouse was not simply a home for pensioners, but also providedmilitary training for younger soldiers and one might guess that Hume had somepart to play in this latter activity, as an experienced officer, in spite ofthe described terms of his admission. Then again, rules of admission to theCharterhouse might have been waived in certain cases.H
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
