Erik Bosgraaf, Izhar Elias & Alessandro Pianu
The Dancing Master: Music in London around 1700
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Recorded live at the Gertrudiskapel Utrecht, 25 August 2020
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About this concert
The programme 'The Dancing Master' echoes the city of London around 1700. Recorder player Erik Bosgraaf, guitarist Izhar Elias and harpsichordist Alessandro Pianu perform suites by Neapolitan virtuoso violinist and composer Nicola Matteis and melodies from John Playford's dance manual The Dancing Master.
Erik Bosgraaf, Izhar Elias and Alessandro Pianu are part of Ensemble Cordevento.
Programme
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Anonymous
Division on a ground
(from: The Division Flute, London 1706) -
Nicola Matteis
Suite in G major
Preludio - Adagio - Motivo - Sarabandafl. 1672-1699 -
Nicolas Matteis
Dissembling love or The lost heart
Drive the cold winter away
(from: The Dancing Master, late 17th century) -
Anonymous
Tollet’s ground
(from: The Division Flute) -
Anonymous
Scotch tune
(from: The Flute-Master, London 1706)
Johney cock thy beavor
(from: The Division Flute) -
Nicola Matteis
Ground in D major, la sol re, per far la mano
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Nicolas Matteis
Tune
(from: The Bird’s Fancyer’s Delight, London 1717) -
John Blow
Morlake’s ground
1648/49-1708 -
Nicola Matteis
Suite in F major
Preludio - Gavotta con divisioni - Aria condivisione -Ground after the Scotch humour
Musicians
- Erik Bosgraaf recorder
- Izhar Elias guitar
- Alessandro Pianu harpsichord
About the performers
Erik Bosgraaf is generally considered to be one of the world's most virtuoso recorder players, and he is certainly the most adventurous. The recorder is for him an inexhaustible source of inspiration and possibilities. He improvises, plays jazz, works with electronics and seeks out cooperation in the field of other art disciplines, for example with filmmakers. His repertoire stretches from medieval to Vivaldi's Four Seasons to tomorrow's music. Roughly a hundred works have been written for him, including twelve solo concertos (Willem Jeths, Theo Loevendie, Anna Meredith and others). Pierre Boulez gave him personal permission to arrange his clarinet composition Dialogue de l´ombre double for recorder. In 2019 in Tallinn he gave the world premiere of Arvo Pärt’s Fratres in a version for recorder.
Izhar Elias is seen as one of the most versatile guitarists of today. His poetic style and groundbreaking programming is based on extensive research into historical performance practice (Renaissance, Baroque and early 19th century), chamber music and contemporary music combined with multimedia. He regularly collaborates with composers, choreographers, filmmakers and theatre directors. In 2011 Elias received the prestigious Dutch Music Award. Since 2019 he has taught at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. His twelfth album was also released that year: Songs of Love and Exile, with Sephardic melodies, together with soprano Channa Malkin.
Born in Sardinia, Alessandro Pianu started his musical studies at the conservatory of Sassari, graduating cum laude as a pianist. He then studied harpsichord in Venice and with Bob van Asperen in Amsterdam. In 2001 he won first prize at the Bologna International Harpsichord Competition, after having been a prize winner at the Budapest International Harpsichord Competition a year earlier. Pianu has performed in important concert halls, opera houses and festivals, including the Opéra National de Paris, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam). Since 2006 Alessandro Pianu has been a harpsichord répétiteur at the early music department of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.