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Track(s) taken from CDH55258

Sonata from the play Tunbridge Walks in D major

composer
British Library Add.MS 49599; Harmonia Anglicana, vi, 1703

Michael Laird (trumpet), Frank De Bruine (oboe), The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)
Recording details: May 1995
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: February 1996
Total duration: 4 minutes 4 seconds

Cover artwork: Fresco on the staircase of Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdon by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (1675-1741)
Reproduced by kind permission of the Governors of Kimbolton School
 

Reviews

‘Had the English Orpheus been a trumpeter, this is how he might have played’ (Early Music Review)
The British Library manuscript is the source for the trumpet sonatas by James Paisible and John Barrett. The sonata by the London organist John Barrett is scored for trumpet, oboe and strings, and was presumably inspired by Purcell’s use of the same scoring in the Act II Indian Queen symphony. It appears by itself in the British Library manuscript, but a printed version in Walsh’s series Harmonia Anglicana reveals that it was originally the overture to his suite for Thomas Baker’s play Tunbridge Walks; or, The Yeoman of Kent, first produced at Drury Lane in 1703.

from notes by Peter Holman © 1995

Le manuscrit de la British Library est la source des sonates pour trompette de James Paisible et de John Barrett. La sonate de l’organiste londonien John Barrett est écrite pour trompette, hautbois et cordes, une instrumentation prenant sans doute pour modèle celle adoptée par Purcell dans la symphonie du deuxième acte de The Indian Queen. Cette sonate apparaît sous la forme d’un manuscrit isolé à la British Library, mais un tome imprimé des Harmonia Anglicana de John Walsh révèle qu’il s’agissait à l’origine de l’ouverture d’une suite que Barrett composa pour Tunbridge Walks; or, The Yeoman of Kent, une pièce de Thomas Baker produite pour la première fois à Drury Lane en 1703.

extrait des notes rédigées par Peter Holman © 1995
Français: Alexandre Blanchard

Das Manuskript der britischen Bibliothek ist die Quelle der Trompetensonaten von James Paisible und John Barrett. Die Sonate des Londoner Organisten John Barrett ist für Trompete, Oboe und Streicher instrumentalisiert und war vermutlich von Purcells Gebrauch der gleichen Partitur im zweiten Akt der Symphonie Indian Queen inspiriert. Es steht als alleiniges Manuskript in der britischen Bibliothek, aber eine gedruckte Version in Walshs Serie Harmonia Anglicana entlarvt, daß es ursprünglich die Ouvertüre seiner Suite für Thomas Bakers Schauspiel Tunbridge Walks; oder, The Yeoman of Kent, erstmals 1703 in Drury Lane aufgeführt, war.

aus dem Begleittext von Peter Holman © 1995
Deutsch: Hypérion

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