Pure Python?
'Wild Men of the Seicento' -
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KEITH BRAMICH'... Piers Adams and David Wright's superb performances exhibit a strangely infectious authenticity.'
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As well as being very entertaining, Piers Adams' liner notes for this CD convincingly and knowledgeably portray the lunacy of seventeenth century music, arguing that it is very difficult for the modern ear to handle works exhibiting both humour and spirituality. On first hearing, one could easily assume that this CD contains 'straight' music 'messed about with' by Adams. The truth is more subtle, however, and Piers Adams and David Wright's superb performances exhibit a strangely infectious authenticity. The humour at the end of the Violin Sonata No 3 in F by Heinrich Biber (1644-1704), for example, described by Adams as 'pure Monty Python', comes largely from Biber's writing (plus a 'brought up to date' harpsichord part) — Adams on recorder is (mostly) true here to Biber's original...
Copyright © 18 January 2016
Keith Bramich,
Torrevieja, Spain
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