Description
James Paisible, Three Sonatas in D minor, F major, and C major (Paris ms., XI-XIII) for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo.
Edited by David Lasocki; basso continuo realization by Bernard Gordillo. Published February 2013. IH0021.
Never published before! Beautiful sonatas in a mixed Italian-French style written by the most celebrated recorder player of his time.
Score plus double part for recorder and bass instrument.
Praise:
“Paisible was a virtuoso on both the recorder and bass violin, and his understanding of these instruments is reflected in these three sonatas…. exciting to play and perform. Overall, Lasocki’s modern edition and the basso continuo realization by Bernard Gordillo of these three sonatas [have created] an excellent scholarly and practical publication. It has a very detailed and interesting Preface and critical report, as well as a clear and thorough performance score, which is an excellent addition to the recorder repertoire.”
Oliver Smith, review in Recorder and Music Magazine 33, no. 2 (summer 2013): 60-61
“Die hier neu edierten drei Sonaten sind genau diejenigen, die bislang noch in keiner modernen Edition greifbar sind…. Sämtliche Werke ähneln in ihrem englisch-französisch-italienischen Stil sehr anderer Blockflötenmusik aus derselben Zeit wie z.B. von Finger, D. Purcell oder C. Rosier. Die kontrapunktische Interaktion zwischen Ober- und Bassstimme ist mitunter recht ausgeprägt. David Lasocki steuert wie gewohnt hoch kompetente und äußerst informative Vorworte und kritische Berichte bei…. Der editorische Ansatz der Ausgaben von Instant Harmony, bislang weitgehend unbeachtete Originalmanuskripte in den verschiedensten Bibliotheken dieser Welt nach originalen Blockflötenwerken zu durchkämmeren, kann nicht genug gelobt werden – auch die wissenschaftliche Präsentation durch den Herausgeber ist durchaus beispielhaft.”
[The three newly edited sonatas are precisely those that have not been available in a modern edition until now….. All these works resemble, in their English-French-Italian style, very different recorder music from the same period such as, for example, by Finger, D. Purcell or C. Rosier. The contrapuntal interaction between upper and lower voices is sometimes extremely distinctive…. The editorial starting point of Instant Harmony’s editions – to comb the most varied music libraries of this world for original recorder works in original manuscripts generally ignored until now – cannot be praised enough. Also, the editor’s musicological work is exemplary….]
From a review by Michael Schneider in Tibia.
