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Carl Smith - organ - Tudor Organ Music - Tallis, Redford, Tomkins
Артист: Carl Smith - organ
Альбом: Tudor Organ Music - Tallis, Redford, Tomkins, 2006
Издатель: Naxos
Жанр: Classical
Формат файла: EAC / FLAC / CUE / LOG
Ссылка: CD
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Tudor Organ Music



Label: Naxos
Year: 2006


Composers:
Anonymous
John Redford (1485 - 1547)
John Blitheman (1525 - 1591)
Thomas Tallis (1505 - 1585)
Thomas Tomkins (1572 - 1656)


Performer:
Carl Smith - organ


Vanderbilt University-based organist Carl Smith takes us on a pleasant little tour of some Tudor-era church music, visiting works by important contributors to the period's organ repertoire, most importantly John Redford, Thomas Tallis, and Thomas Tomkins. The pieces are typically short (most less than two minutes) and highly refined in their use of imitation and other developmental, structural devices. Most organs in England during the 16th and 17th centuries contained two manual divisions; pedal keyboards were virtually non-existent. Resources were relatively limited regarding registral compass and stops, especially compared to, say, instruments available in northern Germany at the time, and thus most English organ music of this period is for manuals only, the forms basic and unelaborate. Which is not to say the music by these very accomplished composers is uninteresting or inelegant.

On the contrary, the pieces on this program show the same high level of invention and craft that we hear in these same composers' more lauded choral compositions. Beyond that, it's up to the organist to bring the music to life, to carefully measure and sensitively balance its melodic and harmonic elements relative to period style and the constraints of a given instrument. And for these reasons and for this repertoire the choice of instrument is very important. Which brings us to Carl Smith, who is a serious student of English keyboard music and who has selected two different yet entirely appropriate American organs (one of which is featured on the CD cover) for his performances. The first, which he uses for 21 of the disc's 30 tracks, is an organ of modest specifications, dominated by fundamental flue stops; the second is more varied in voices and colors, featuring a nice selection of mutations, mixtures, and reeds, in addition to the basic flue stops. Smith is quite adept at utilizing his resources, keeping things interesting by often subtle variations in color and texture. In other words, this recital is very easy to listen to and it's expertly played and recorded. Highlights include Redford's Te lucis ante terminum, a distant cousin of Bach's chorale preludes, and the wonderfully weird, anonymous La Mi Re.


This repertoire, in two or three contrapuntal lines, is mainly arrangements of small vocal works such as hymns and antiphons characterized by motivic integration, rhythmic displacements, and short passages of imitation. The timing for most of these works is between one to two minutes. The musical interest is in the subtle turn of melodic line and/or metric sophistication.

In addition to three anonymous works, the composers represented are John Redford, who was affiliated with St. Paul's Cathedral and later became Almoner and Master of the Choristers; Thomas Tallis, who worked his way through a variety of church positions to become a member of the Chapel Royal in 1543, serving under Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary Tudor, and Elizabeth I; John Blitheman, who was also affiliated with the Chapel Royal; Thomas Preston, who is thought to have been organist at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later at Trinity College, Cambridge; and Thomas Tomkins, who became organist at the Chapel Royal in 1621.

Thomas Mulliner, who flourished in the 1560s in London, compiled what has come to be called the Mulliner Book in an effort to collect the best examples of this repertoire. Two instruments were used on this recording. One is in the Sudekum Chapel of the First Lutheran Church in Nashville, TN, and the other is in the Ackerman Auditorium of Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, TN. Both of these are appropriately scaled and registered instruments suitable to these small-scale works.

This music is more subtle than exciting and the tempos and mood tend to be the same from work to work. These performances more plod than sparkle and one often wonders why so much of this music would have been interesting to the likes of kings and queens. Perhaps it was designed to accompany and inspire meditation for their daily prayers.

Organist Carl Smith is a faculty member of the Blair School of Music of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. He has performed music from the Mulliner Book on many occasions and said he finds in these works some of the loveliest counterpoint in all of organ literature.





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