音楽の四つ葉のクローバー～ダニエル・シュペール作品集

リコーダーとコルネットの古雅な響き。
ユーモアにあふれるシュペールの作品

ダニエル・シュペール(1636-1707)はドイツ・バロックの作曲家で笛吹き。音楽のみならず、冒険小説作家、政治評論家としての顔を持つ才人でした。彼の作品をピリオド楽器で奏した注目盤の登場です。

カペラ・イティネリスは、バーゼル・スコラカントールムの仲間たちにより2016年に結成されたリコーダーとコルネット合奏団。旅を意味するグループ名は、彼らがバーゼルからローザンヌまで2週間かけて徒歩で旅行したことがグループ結成につながったとのことで、「古楽と旅行のアンサンブル」と名乗っています。

シュペールの宗教音楽以外は独特なユーモアと風刺の感覚に満ちていて興味津々。カペラ・イティネリスも才気煥発で、独創的な音楽を存分に味わえます。
キングインターナショナル

The ensemble performing here, Capella Itineris, is so named because the group often travels to concerts via backpacking, but composer Daniel Speer was also itinerant, holding numerous posts in medium-sized German towns in the late 17th century. He worked as a Stadtpfeifer, a city piper, and wrote a good deal of wind music, but he also composed religious music with brass (there is a good deal of evidence that much German Renaissance sacred music was not a cappella) and, most intriguingly, comic vocal pieces that are perhaps ancestors to Bachs comic secular cantatas. These are given only in German and French in the booklet, and making sense of them requires the use of footnotes, so they are not of much use to monoglot anglophones. However, those in a position to make the effort will find them pretty wild, including such characters as one who bleats like a goat. The rest of the music is pleasantly varied, probably because Speers responsibilities changed as he moved around. He is not another Schutz or Buxtehude, but lovers of the German Baroque will find music, and even entire genres, of which they were previously unaware, and for library collections and Baroque enthusiasts, the album is invaluable. ~ James Manheim