Margret Koell & Ensemble Between The Strings - Woundrous Machine (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Wondrous Machine is the title of an air from Purcell's Odes for St. Cecilia's Day, a hymn of praise to the music of which Cecilia is considered the patron saint, and to the instruments from the flute to the organ, of which she is considered the inventor. Not as an inventor, but as an innovative rediscoverer and ambassador of an equally "wondrous" instrument, namely the historical harp and its "entourage", is Margret Koell. She programmatically places the title "Wondrous Machine" above a project that focuses on the tonal mutability of the triple harp. The programme focuses on George Frideric Handel: the Concerto Op. 7 No. 1 for harp, lute and orchestra is Koell's arrangement of the original concerto for organ and orchestra. The Concerto Op. 4 No. 6 is presented here for the first time in the extremely rarely heard version of 1736 for harp and lyrichord (viola organista) - the latter, a bowed keyboard instrument, is based on sketches by Leonardo da Vinci. With his sketch for another "wondrous machine", the flying machine "ornithopter", da Vinci was once again the inspiration: for the new composition by Christof Dienz, which catapults the triple harp and lyrichord into the present. The programme is rounded off by interspersed Scottish tunes by composer James Oswald.

Margret Koell, triple harp and artistic direction
Slawomir Zubrzycki, lyrichord
Michele Pasotti, lute, theorbo and co-conductor
Between the Strings, ensemble on historical instruments

Tracklist:
01. Handel: Concerto for harp, lute, lyrichord & other instruments op. 4 no. 6, HWV 294: Andante Allegro
02. Handel: Concerto for harp, lute, lyrichord & other instruments op. 4 no. 7, HWV 295: Larghetto
03. Handel: Concerto for harp, lute, lyrichord & other instruments op. 4 no. 8, HWV 296: Allegro Moderato
04. Oswald: A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes: Ty on the Wars
05. Handel: Concerto for harp & lute op. 7 no. 1, HWV 306: Andante
06. Handel: Concerto for harp & lute op. 7 no. 2, HWV 306: Andante
07. Handel: Concerto for harp & lute op. 7 no. 3, HWV 306: Largo e piano
08. Handel: Concerto for harp & lute op. 7 no. 4, HWV 306: Bourrée Allegro
09. Oswald: A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes: Bonny Christy
10. Oswald: A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes: My Nanio
11. Dienz: flapping its wings – Concertino for triple harp, lyrichord & 5 baroque strings
12. Oswald: A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes: There are few good Fellows when Jamie´s awa´


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