Just discovering Baroque

[ilovebaroque]

Welcome, Aria!

The other day I made an unsuccessful attempt to paste our YouTube player on the site. Thanks to the generous help of Hector, I think I got the hang of it!

This is a Purcell piece that we showcase on You Tube together with a little tour of Westminster Abbey and London. BTW, this particular performance was by an American group called "The New England Brass Ensemble" (1962) and first published by the now defunct RCA Record Club.

Back in the Stone Age, "record clubs" used to advertise in popular magazines and when you (mailed) in your little postcard and then (waited!) about 3 weeks for a reply-you were in heaven when that postman finally brought you your set of vinyl records from the Club. Tuvia has been "schlepping" this recording around with him now since childhood. It's long overdue for an upgrade. I think the results are pretty good, no?

Another interesting "factoid" about this piece: The title "Cebill" was a play on words used by Henry Purcell himself to describe the triangle bell which he included by design (although on most recordings that little bell is barely heard). There is a lot of confusion about what the "real" spelling of this piece should be- (Cebill, Cebille, etc.) . Purcell intended for it to be called "the bell" in French but instead opted for this "incorrect" title, just so folks would have something to argue about for all time ( or because some wiseguy Frenchman pissed him off!) .

[ReinerTorheit]

Originally Posted by ilovebaroque

This is a Purcell piece that we showcase on You Tube together with a little tour of Westminster Abbey and London.

Nicely done

Purcell had a trumpeter named Snow, for whom he wrote this virtuosic repertoire. I think Snow has been neatly served in this performance

[Marie-Noëlle Duros]

Hello IloveBaroque,
did you know that in french "une sébille/sébile" -that makes the same sounds as your ' Cebill'- is the small metal tumbler in which beggars make money sound when they ask for your coin... :
perhaps another pun by Purcell ???

[micrologus]

Originally Posted by Scott Good

What a splendid recording! Just delightful - I love this piece.

The cornet playing flatting the 7th's at the cadences is very cool + adding little suspensions here and there. The frame drum (I think that's what it is) is so very tasty - are there two drums? Almost sounds like a conga thud in there. And how the violin and cornet can blend is remarkable, considering how different these instruments are. Beautiful baroque tambourine. And of course the singers are great too!

I've played this piece many times...I'm now armed with piles of new ideas to bring to the next rendition - thanks!!!

L'Arpeggiata / Christina Pluhar


I saw them perform together with Nuria Rial an Philippe Jaroussky. Overwhelming!!!

One of my favorite baroque ensembles