CCL CDG1214 Cover image: Girl with a Pearl EarringJan Vermeer (163275) Mauritshaus, The Hague/ Bridgeman Art LibraryThis compilation & 2007 Classical Communications Ltd Made in Great Britain

1 Vita in ligno moritur, prima pars Ludwig Senfl (c.1486c.1543) Lynda Sayce, bass lute

2 Pavana dolorosa Peter Philips (c.15611628) Martin Souter, virginals

3 Partita in D minor BWV1004 Chaconne Johann Sebastian Bach (16851750) Ilya Ioff, violin

4 Sonata in C minor K457 Adagio Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (17561791) Martin Souter, piano

5 Pavane Gabriel Faur (18451924) Sam Piha & Martin Vishnik, guitars

6 Symphony No 5 Adagietto Gustav Mahler (18601911) Radio Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana conducted by Anton Nanut

7 Sonata in F minor Op2/1 Adagio Ludwig van Beethoven (17701827) Martin Souter, piano

8 Piano Concerto No20 in D minor, K466 Romance Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Felicja Blumental, piano, Innsbruck Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Wagner

Tracks 1 & 2 recorded at Jericho Farm Studios

Tracks 3, 6 and 8 courtesy of Countdown Media GmbH

Tracks 4 & 7 recorded by kind permission on historic keyboard instruments in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Track 5 recorded in Summertown, Oxford

A Musical Moment Profound music for contemplation

Quiet music crossing four centuries, from the calm lute of the sixteenth century to the rich harmonies of the nineteenth, in a programme of some of the most profound music ever written. Long adagios contrast with a series of short but moving pieces.

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This album begins in the world of the girl with a pearl earring with lute music that

she might have heard in the houses and artists studios of Delft. Ludwig Senfl , the

composer of the fi rst track, was one of Northern Europes most famous musicians. He

sang in the Imperial chapel and, like so many musicians of the day, became involved

in the religious controversy between Catholic and Protestant which raged at the

time and which affected even Jan Vermeer, a Reformed Protestant who married

into a Catholic family. Senfl composed mainly choral music, but many of his works

were arranged for other instruments, particularly the lute, thus allowing his calm

and austere musical style to be played in the home. Peter Philips was also involved

in the religious issues of the day, an Englishman who fl ed to Northern Europe and

eventually to Italy. He was a prolifi c composer, although only a relatively small amount of keyboard music has survived. The Pavana dolorosa is played here on a

virginals, a small oblong keyboard instrument of the type which appears in many

Dutch paintings of the period.

Johann Sebastian Bach composed a sublime set of partitas for solo violin.

A partita is a suite of dance movements, and the chaconne from the D minor

suite is one of his most famous works. The music unfolds gradually in a series of ever

A Musical Moment Profound music for contemplationmore elaborate patterns over a standardised chord sequence. Mozart and Beethoven

were famous in their day as keyboard players, and they both wrote substantial

amounts of piano music for publication during their lifetime. Both adagios heard

here are sublime works: calm and refl ective while retaining an inner luminosity and

thus suited to Vermeers style of painting. Mozarts Piano Concerto in D minor

is one of his best known. Calm outer sections regulate a more turbulent central

development, as if any troubling thoughts which emerge from the initial calm are

eventually resolved.

Two more composers are represented on our album of calming music. Gabriel

Faur was a teacher and composer in Paris around a century ago. He often wrote

music in deliberately antique style, and his lovely Pavane is his own tribute to the

music of previous centuries. Mahler famously wrote lengthy symphonies which

explored through music the full range of human emotion and thought with an

intensity rarely equalled. The Adagietto comes from the Fifth Symphony and is

pure bliss in music.

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