Stylus Luxurians plays Keiser
BackReinhard Keiser - Sonata a 3, No. 1 Stylus Luxurians (formerly Ensemble Croesus) Baroque Ensemble in Washington, D.C. Recorded: Summer, 2001 Players on recording: Carol Holmes, violin Michael Holmes, recorder Daniel Rippe, bass viola da gamba Tim Miller, theorbo Bozena Jedrejczak-Brown, harpsichord About the Ensemble: The ensemble for early music "Stylus Luxurians" is a subgroup of the Orchestra of the 17th Century, a larger and highly-varied pool of period-instrument specialists in Washington D.C. Both ensembles perform with the intent of presenting programs that emphasize the era that directly led to the development of eighteenth-century music. "Stylus Luxurians" is equally at home with Italian early baroque music as it is with the seventeenth-century French national idiom and late baroque German trio sonatas. The continuo group (consisting of harpsichord/organ and gamba/cello) remains constant, and can interchange to fit either the standard trio sonata model (accompanying duo violins and/or recorders) or with early brass instruments (cornetti, sackbuts and trumpets). Each performance of Stylus Luxurians is an exploration in new sonic combinations, and so the personnel constantly varies. The ensemble and its members have received critical acclaim: "Stylus Luxurians lavished tonal, timbral and articulative care on the Charpentier [Sonate a huit, a piece which was] played probably for the first time in this country...the musicians achieved the best balance of liveliness and instrumental polish in [Francesco] Mancini's expressive, at times nearly theatrical Sonata in D minor both scored from recorder, two violins, and continuo and [Gottfried] Finger's Sonata No. 4 for two recorders." RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH, July 19, 2004 "Michael Holmes, a master of the recorder, crumhorn, and the sackbut..." WASINGTON POST, June 14, 2004 [During the Washington Early Music Festival] Stylus Luxurians takes its name from an abstract musical concept that was prevalent in much of seventeenth-century Europe, meaning literally "severe and embellished style". The term was coined by the Dresden court musician Christoph Bernhard in his treatise Tractatus compositionis augmentatus which epitomized the 17th century as an era where words, music, and rhetoric combined to form a perfect marriage. The severity of this connection has never been matched in any other era of Western music history. Contact: musicdirector@uucss.org
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