Suite in G by R. De Visée - Clive Titmuss, guitar

Описание: Robert De Visée’s life and work dates from the last quarter of the 1600s. His music still attracts our admiration today for its freshness and originality. This Suite in G is actually the source material for a later work, the suite in D for the theorbo, in tablature in the Saizenay manuscript. As well as his court position, he may also have served the head of the Navy (named Saizenay), possibly as a theorbo instructor and composer, leaving a large collection of his music in MS for theorbo and lute. Though there is no direct evidence of which version came first--the guitar version is more likely to have been the model on which the theorbo version was arranged. This guitar version is also found only in MS and was not included in De Visée’s printed guitar books. I altered the tablature original substantially to improve its clarity and playability. The simple charm of it melodies make it more likely to have been written early in his career. His later works often display more complex harmony than is heard here, and are found among the carefully edited and engraved published works, especially the expanded suite forms in C, G, D and A (all) minor.
The guitar I am using is one that I made in 1995, and decorated with the traditional materials of the contemporary “ébéniste” and luthier--ivory (up-cycled from junked piano keyboards) and ebony (both from keyboards and in plank form) are used for binding and purfling, each tile added separately.
In the background is a little history of the guitar, with instruments I’ve built since the 1995-2011, from left: a vihuela, a five-course guitar after an anonymous Spanish instrument, a six-course guitar after Pagés/Benedid (late 18th C.), after Panormo/Grobert, London, c.1812, and a remarkable guitar I did not build, by Hermann Hauser, Munich, 1923, ex Les Crane, a gift from him.
Susan Adams knitted the “tumbling blocks” vest, the perfect thing to wear when playing my Voboam-style guitar.
Audio is by Chaianne Ellis at SoulTech Audio, video by Clive Titmuss and audio/video editing is by Susan Adams. Please leave us a comment because we love to hear from you! You might also enjoy;
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