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Reviewer: Lehman Kenny has 20 years of teaching and touring in Europe. She has been touring in 2019 with this program. There are 7 pieces from a 1623 book by Alessandro Piccinini, 3 from 1640 by Kapsberger, plus a suite and 2 other pieces by Robert de Visee, as found in a 1699 manuscript. The new pieces were written for Kenny by Nico Muhly, Benjamin Oliver, and Sir James MacMillan. The latter is an excerpt from an Easter chamber cantata from 2012, Since it was the Day of Preparation.... Kenny recorded it in 2015 with the Hebrides Ensemble and Synergy Vocals (Delphian). The excerpt is a sufficient teaser to get that whole powerful piece. In its original context the theorbo’s forlorn melodies and whamming clusters set the scene for the story in John 19, just before the soldiers are to take the dead Jesus off the cross. Oliver’s piece, ‘Extending from the inside’, has a funny ostinato on a low G, barre chords, and a funk-rock idiom that makes the theorbo sound like an electric guitar. It’s like a soliloquy full of emotional outbursts. Muhly’s ‘Berceuse with seven variations’ is a lullaby that gets into freely dissonant chords, agitated runs, and harmonics. The variation
called ‘Stutter’ has fast
repeated notes and sounds like Flamenco guitar. The repeated notes continue
more calmly into the coda. For more Kapsberger, look to Stefano Maiorana (M/A 2017) and Paul O’Dette (1990, J/A 2008). For Piccinini, I am happy with two Tactus albums played by Francesca Torelli and Luciano Contini, both recorded more than 20 years ago. For De Visee, Hopkinson Smith’s old Astrée recording of these same pieces (1979) is as good as Kenny’s. I’ve enjoyed reacquainting myself with all of those. It doesn’t matter in detailed comparisons, though, because the urgent reason to acquire Kenny’s program is the new compositions. | ||||
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