The novelty of this disc resides in its packaging above all; although the music is quite unfamiliar, there are no booklet notes at all, just a tracklist, some credits, and wallpaper-like background with a design evoking human cells. Discs of early music have sometimes incorporated contemporary music, so the contents of the disc itself aren't so unusual. The music is for viol consort, a group of stringed instruments of different sizes that were predecessors of the modern orchestral strings. A cello is added to the group on ...
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The novelty of this disc resides in its packaging above all; although the music is quite unfamiliar, there are no booklet notes at all, just a tracklist, some credits, and wallpaper-like background with a design evoking human cells. Discs of early music have sometimes incorporated contemporary music, so the contents of the disc itself aren't so unusual. The music is for viol consort, a group of stringed instruments of different sizes that were predecessors of the modern orchestral strings. A cello is added to the group on several tracks that are original compositions by cellist Ernst Reijseger. All the music is either of the late Renaissance era (from Italy or England), or new music composed by the performers themselves (in a few cases they arrange early works in modern ways). The Renaissance pieces are artfully chosen so as to fit this project. Some of the Italian composers represented, such as Giovanni de Macque and Giovanni Maria Trabaci, were experimentalists themselves; Macque (sample the Prima...
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Add this copy of Full of Colour (Concerto Di Viole) to cart. $36.27, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2006 by WINTER&WINTER: 6519501.
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