When this album was released in 2020, it signaled the continued rise of a major new recorder talent in Tabea Debus. She coaxes an attractive tone out of a variety of Renaissance and Baroque recorders, keeps a steady pitch, and puts together collaborators, gambist Jonathan Rees and theorbist Alex McCartney, who have a fresh sound and interact with her in a relaxed way. The program concept is also fresh: the idea of the ohrwurm , or earworm in English, although not contemporary with the music involved (the English word was ...
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When this album was released in 2020, it signaled the continued rise of a major new recorder talent in Tabea Debus. She coaxes an attractive tone out of a variety of Renaissance and Baroque recorders, keeps a steady pitch, and puts together collaborators, gambist Jonathan Rees and theorbist Alex McCartney, who have a fresh sound and interact with her in a relaxed way. The program concept is also fresh: the idea of the ohrwurm , or earworm in English, although not contemporary with the music involved (the English word was not coined until 1978), brings together a variety of music in a convincing way. Debus' selections hang around the line between concert music and anonymous folk tunes in a way that an 18th century instrumentalist would have recognized, and she ornaments her melodic lines with agile moves that don't call attention to themselves. Some of the pieces here, like Handel's "Lascia ch'io pianga," originally from the opera Rinaldo, are well known as earworms and have been arranged for...
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