Mignarda – Shakespeare’s Lutebook (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Mignarda – Shakespeare’s Lutebook (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:40 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prima Classic

The music on this album is the result of decades of research and many lecture-recitals performed across the US, with publication of a book of scores bearing the same title. We do not pretend to know whether Shakespeare the playwright played the lute — or whether the historical figure of Shakespeare the playwright existed at all. But we know that the plays were a collaborative effort written and produced in concert with several of the best literary and musical figures of the Elizabethan/Jacobean age, and indication for music in Shakespeare plays was as ubiquitous as any other stage direction. Much of the music appearing in the plays is of a lighter character, suitable for capering and jollification in an outdoor theater. But the historical music Mignarda chooses is typically of a more complex nature, and was likely performed in an indoor theater where subtlety and nuance, an essential characteristic of music for voice and lute, might actually be heard. Our approach is to convey the texts with understanding, choosing historical musical settings when they survive, but employing informed choices of historical style and convention when the original setting is lost to history.Much of the music appearing in the plays is of a lighter character, suitable for capering and jollification in an outdoor theater. But the historical music Mignarda chooses is typically of a more complex nature, and was likely performed in an indoor theater where subtlety and nuance, an essential characteristic of music for voice and lute, might actually be heard. Our approach is to convey the texts with understanding, choosing historical musical settings when they survive, but employing informed choices of historical style and convention when the original setting is lost to history.

Shakespeare’s Lutebook is a personal selection of music drawn from some of the most iconic plays, and we share our interpretations to offer the listener some insight into the music common to Shakespeare’s time.

Tracklist:

1-01. Mignarda – The Willow Song (Arr. for Lute and Voice by Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart) (03:43)
1-02. Mignarda – When Griping Griefs (Arr. for Lute and Voice by Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart) (02:46)
1-03. Mignarda – Almaine – Oxford’s Galliard (Arr. for Lute by Ron Andrico) (02:25)
1-04. Mignarda – Come Away Death (Arr. for Lute and Voice by Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart) (02:08)
1-05. Mignarda – My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is (Arr. for Lute by Ron Andrico) (03:29)
1-06. Mignarda – Romanesca – Galliard (Arr. for Lute and Voice by Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart) (02:41)
1-07. Mignarda – Greensleeves (Arr. for Lute and Voice by Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart) (03:24)
1-08. Mignarda – Galliarda Romanesca (Arr. for Lute by Ron Andrico) (02:22)
1-09. Mignarda – O Mistress Mine (Arr. for Lute and Voice by Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart) (02:31)
1-10. Mignarda – Sleep Slumbering Eyes (Arr. for Lute and Voice by Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart) (04:08)
1-11. Mignarda – Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone (Arr. for Lute and Voice by Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart) (03:08)
1-12. Mignarda – As I Walked Forth (Arr. for Lute and Voice by Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart) (03:41)
1-13. Mignarda – Full Fathom Five (Arr. for Lute and Voice by Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart) (02:21)
1-14. Mignarda – Have I Caught My Heavenly Jewel? (Arr. for Lute and Voice by Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart) (02:16)
1-15. Mignarda – Kemp’s Jig (Arr. for Lute by Ron Andrico) (01:31)
1-16. Mignarda – Orpheus With His Lute (Arr. for Lute and Voice by Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart) (02:24)
1-17. Mignarda – Fantasia (Arr. for Lute by Ron Andrico) (01:57)
1-18. Mignarda – Who is Sylvia? (Arr. for Lute and Voice by Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart) (02:09)
1-19. Mignarda – Like As The Lute Delights (Arr. for Lute and Voice by Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart) (03:38)
1-20. Mignarda – Farewell Dear Love (Arr. for Lute and Voice by Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart) (03:48)

Download from FileJoker: