Airs and Graces: Scottish Tunes and London Sonatas

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Release Date: 28th Jul 2008
Catalogue No: BISSACD1595
Label: BIS
Length: 65 minutes

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trad.: Lord Aboynes welcome or Cumbernault house

Work length2:16

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Dan Laurin, David Tayler
Recorded: June 2005
Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States

trad.: Waly Waly

Work length1:28

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Dan Laurin, David Tayler, William Skeen, Hanneke van Proosdij
Recorded: June 2005
Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States

trad.: Clout the Cauldron

Work length1:59

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Dan Laurin, David Tayler, William Skeen, Hanneke van Proosdij
Recorded: June 2005
Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States

Stanley, J: Flute Solo No. 4 in B Minor, Op. 4

Work length12:25

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Dan Laurin, David Tayler, Tanya Tomkins, Hanneke van Proosdij
Recorded: June 2005
Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States

I. Adagio

Track length3:19

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II. Poco Allegro

Track length4:01

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III. Gigg

Track length5:05

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trad.: Lochaber

Work length2:01

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Hanneke van Proosdij, William Skeen, David Tayler
Recorded: June 2005
Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States

trad.: Fy gar rub her o’er with straw

Work length1:15

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Hanneke van Proosdij
Recorded: June 2005
Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States

trad.: Busk ye busk ye Bonny Bride

Work length2:15

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Dan Laurin, David Tayler, William Skeen, Hanneke van Proosdij
Recorded: June 2005
Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States

Handel: Sonata in B minor for flute and continuo, HWV376 'Halle III'

Work length9:19

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Dan Laurin, Tanya Tomkins, Hanneke van Proosdij
Recorded: June 2005
Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States

I. Adagio

Track length2:41

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II. Allegro

Track length2:41

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III. Largo

Track length2:02

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IV. Allegro

Track length1:55

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Geminiani, F: Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 5 No. 3

Work length6:42

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Tanya Tomkins, William Skeen, Hanneke van Proosdij
Recorded: June 2005
Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States

I. Andante

Track length1:59

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II. Allegro

Track length1:19

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III. Affetuoso

Track length1:30

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IV. Allegro

Track length1:54

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trad.: The Flowers of the Forrest

Work length4:06

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Hanneke van Proosdij
Recorded: June 2005
Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States

anon.: Dumbarton's Drums

Work length3:14

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Tanya Tomkins, William Skeen
Recorded: June 2005
Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States

anon.: Logan Water

Work length3:06

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Dan Laurin, Hanneke van Proosdij
Recorded: June 2005
Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States

Roman: Flute Sonata No. 10 in E minor

Work length11:41

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Dan Laurin, David Tayler, Tanya Tomkins, Hanneke van Proosdij
Recorded: June 2005
Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States

I. Larghetto

Track length2:51

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II. Andante

Track length2:55

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III. Piva

Track length2:24

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IV. Non Presto

Track length2:44

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V. Villanella

Track length0:47

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Handel: Recorder Sonata, HWV375

Work length3:48

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Dan Laurin, David Tayler, Tanya Tomkins
Recorded: June 2005
Recording Venue: St. Stephan's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, United States

IV. Minuet

Track length3:48

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London in the early 1700’s offered a dazzling mix of virtually every European musical style. The recent union between England and Scotland led to an increased cultural exchange, and English audiences were entranced by the rhythms and colours of the traditional tunes of Scotland. Various collections, such as the settings by the recorder virtuoso Francesco Barsanti, were published and even Handel could not resist a few turns at the hornpipe in his Water Music. This state of affairs is reflected in the present mix of four baroque sonatas, by composers associated with London in various ways, and nine Scottish tunes in arrangements based on the Barsanti settings.

This imaginative programme is characteristic of the approach adopted by Parnassus Avenue, an ensemble which is constantly challenging ‘baroque standards’: according to Parnassus Avenue there is no ‘early’ music, just a never-ending ‘now’. In lending a John Stanley Adagio the same melancholy expressivity as the mournful Waly waly, and applying the same virtuosity to the hypnotic Clout the Cauldron as to a Handel Allegro, Dan Laurin and his colleagues also demonstrate that there are no genres, only one seamless musical whole.

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