Ralph Rousseau - A Pritty Thing

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A Pritty Thing: Ralph Rousseau Plays Tobias Hume For any lover of the Viola Da Gamba (not now a well known or...

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A Pritty Thing: Ralph Rousseau Plays Tobias Hume

For any lover of the Viola Da Gamba (not now a well known or often played instrument) or lover of 16th / 17th Centurry music, this album of compositions from the hand of Scottish composer Tobias Hume (1579-1645) will come as something of a revelation.

Recorded in the Chapel of the Fransciscan Convent in Utrecht, Ralph Rousseau plays a 6-string Viola da Gamba made by Georrge Aman in the early 18th Century.

The Viola da Gamba has been a regular instrument Ralph has played at his concerts over the past 20 years, this recording onto tape for LP has had no editing whatsoever and the results are stunning.

To the gamba player Hume's music offers a rare sense of liberty. On the one hand almost nothing is known about his person, but on the other hand every one of his pieces is baptized with a little descriptive title pointing to its origin. This combination - at least to me personally - leads to a wonderful sort of openness, where a few words from an otherwise unknown person are the only things to go on apart from the music score or tablature itself, obviously. In any case, it was Hume's music that lured me into the realm of the viola da gamba as a solo instrument some 20 years ago. It has been a regular part of my solo performances ever since.

This recording was made in the chapel of the Franciscan Convent in Utrecht, where a spent so many hours meditating, praying, and playing. The recording was carried out in a fully analog fashion. The only way to really do justice to the analog process is the vinyl record. For convenience, however, we used a parallel digital channel in order to make it available on cd as well.

The analog recording technique does require that the recordings be made in one take. So this recording has absolutely no editing whatsoever. Everything you hear is exactly the way it sounded in the chapel. I don't think Captaine Hume would have wanted it any other way. For me as a player, this involved a unparalleled concentration that felt very much like the thrill of a live concert.

- Ralph Rousseau

Album: Ralph Rousseau - A Pritty Thing

Label: STS Analog - 6111165

Format: Vinyl, LP Record, 33RPM, 12", Stereo, Album, Limited

Country: Netherlands

Genre: Classical

Tracklist:

Tobias Hume (1579-1645)

The First Part Of Ayres

1. The Spirit Of Gambo

2. A Soldiers Maske

3. Captaine Humes Pavan

4. T Sa Ala Mod Du' France

5. A Soldiers Resolution

6. Toy Suite

7. My Mistress Hath A Pritty Thing

8. Maister Crasse His Almayne

9. A Preludum

10. A Soldiers Galiard

11. A French Ayre

12. Captain Humes Almayne

13. A Mediation

14. The New Knights Humor

15. The Earle Of Pembrooke His Galliard

16. A French Jigge

17. A Question

18. Ha Couragie

19. An Answere

20. Now I Come

21. My Mistresse Maske

Ralph Rousseau knew very early on that music and science would be dominating factors in his life. Playing the piano and bass guitar at the age of eight he later combined his conservatoire double-bass studies with a university physics degree, graduating ‘cum laude’ in both.

His professional career started as a double-bass player, where he performed with, among others, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. As a researcher, he worked for Shell and for the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research. He combined this with pop, jazz and rock music.

Features:

• 180g Vinyl

• Pressed in Germany

180g Import LP - Ralph Rousseau - Netherlands

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