Notes and Editorial Reviews
SENFL
Songs and Instrumental Music
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Tore Tom Denys (ten); La Caccia
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MUSICA FICTA 8015 (63:44
Text and Translation)
This album follows a plan identical in format to that of Charles Daniels and Fretwork on Harmonia Mundi 907334, incorporating a mix of Senfl’s viol consort songs, and instrumentals. La Caccia expands matters with a recorder consort and several plucked string instruments. The result has a lighter, more varied texture than in Daniels/Fretwork, abetted by Denys’s
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preference for higher pitching in identical songs.
They don’t share much content, but the little they do indicates Daniels’s preference for slightly slower tempos. In “Ach Eislein,” this allows a greater emphasis on phrasing, while in “Im meyen,” he employs a greater variety of dynamics to give life to the raunchy text. Neither tenor, however, conveys the charm necessary to bring it to life; and Denys, who is quite affecting in the sorrows of “Mag ich Unglück” and “Mein’ Fleiss und Müeh,” is completely stone-faced when it comes to this bawdry.
Like the Daniels/Fretwork disc, too, Denys/La Caccia supplies multiple recompositions based on the same thematic material. The expected “Tandernac” appears both as an instrumental in four parts, for instance, and a series of parts in tandem with the religious song, “Felices, quicumque deo confidere possunt.”
Asked to choose between the two discs, I wouldn’t—nor, for that matter, would I care to forego Cordes/Weser-Renaissance (CPO 999648-2), with a small vocal ensemble in lieu of a single vocalist, and including a much broader mix of instruments. Simply put, each of these discs brings something distinctive to the table. And in the case of Denys/La Caccia, it’s a combination of Denys’s attractively bright tone and enunciation, and La Caccia’s varied accompaniments and its sensitive treatment of pure instrumentals. Recommended.
FANFARE: Barry Brenesal
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Works on This Recording
1.
Unsäglich Schmerz by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; Germany
3.
Tandernaken a 4 by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
Period: Renaissance
Written: 1534; Germany
4.
Mein Fleiss und Müeh' by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
Period: Renaissance
Written: 1534; Germany
5.
Mag ich, Herzlieb by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1534; Germany
6.
Im Maien by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; Germany
7.
Fortuna ad voces musicales by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
Period: Renaissance
Written: 1534; Germany
8.
Es taget vor dem Walde by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; Germany
9.
Dort oben auf dem Berge by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; Germany
10.
Das Lang by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century
11.
Carmen in la by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; Germany
12.
Albrecht mirs schwer by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; Germany
13.
Ach Elslein, liebes Elselein by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; Germany
15.
Ich scheid dahin by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
16.
Rosina, wo was dein Gestalt by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
18.
Dem ewigen Gott by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
19.
Carmen by Ludwig Senfl
Performer:
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Conductor:
Patrick Denecker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Caccia
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