Format: CD
Barcode: 8711525526501
Releasedate: 13-01-17
- violinist Antoinette Lohmann plays rare repertoire with great skill and imagination
- Antoinette Lohmann has discovered and recorded three compositions that were never recorded before
- the title of this album Phantasia Musica refers to a 17th Century instrumental syle that is rarely performed nowadays
- Jean van Vugt's recording is pure and natural as it gets; it strives to capture the actual sound and atmosphere of a live concert rather than the artificial glamour of the studio
- the cd is a 1000 copy hand numbered limited edition
Seventeenth-century music is rhetorical music: everything notated by the composer conceals an intrinsic emotion. However the task of expressing these emotions rests solely with the performer, who must convey them in such a compelling way that the audience is captivated and moved. Thus, when performing rhetorical music the musician should play in the same way that one adapts his manner of speaking to the emotion of the moment, for instance by taking more time, speaking more calmly or agitatedly, louder or softer.
The style of the works recorded on this album is often associated with Stylus Phantasticus, a term originally applied to a compositional method in which the composer's fantasy was the source of a composition. Later the term’s emphasis shifted to the freedom of performance. Phantasia Musica was another term signifying the importance of performer’s imagination, however the word ‘phantasia’ here refers to improvisation; many 17th-century compositions (e.g. toccata, fantasia and capriccio) are actually written-out improvisations.
Antoinette Lohmann recorded these works on a late 17th-century violin by Egidius Snoeck (Brussels), which is still in its original state and strung with four pure gut strings. The bow is a copy of a short, convex, 17th-century German bow, which is held with the thumb under the frog or on the hair; this was the most commonly used bow hold throughout Europe until the end of the 17th Century.
The style of the works recorded on this album is often associated with Stylus Phantasticus, a term originally applied to a compositional method in which the composer's fantasy was the source of a composition. Later the term’s emphasis shifted to the freedom of performance. Phantasia Musica was another term signifying the importance of performer’s imagination, however the word ‘phantasia’ here refers to improvisation; many 17th-century compositions (e.g. toccata, fantasia and capriccio) are actually written-out improvisations.
Antoinette Lohmann recorded these works on a late 17th-century violin by Egidius Snoeck (Brussels), which is still in its original state and strung with four pure gut strings. The bow is a copy of a short, convex, 17th-century German bow, which is held with the thumb under the frog or on the hair; this was the most commonly used bow hold throughout Europe until the end of the 17th Century.