Vienna Plucked

[ardcarp]

Yet another antidote to the Viennese Strauss Fest. Early Music Now this afternoon featured lutenist Paul O'Dette.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cn38

Adrian Le Roy:
Petite fantasie dessus l'accord du Leut
Vray Dieu disoit une fillette (Lassus)
Branle simple – Le branle precedent plus diminué
Branle gay
Branles de Bourgongne (Premier, Quatryesme & Neufiesme Branles)

Francesco Canova da Milano:
O bone Jesu (Antonio de Ribera)
Fantasia (3)
Fantasia (64)
Tu discois que je mourroye (Claudin de Sermisy)
Fantasia (33)

[Quarky]

Many thanks for link. This programme is easy to overlook!

[Richard Tarleton]

For info, all the da Milano pieces are to be found on O'Dette's da Milano CD "Il divino", Harmonia Mundi HMU907557.

Lots of Branles in the lute repertoire!

[ardcarp]

I recall that the Capriol Suite has a movement called Bransles. Your link gives various alternative spellings for this dance, including 'brawl' !

[Alain Maréchal]

I hesitate to mention this, and those of a polite disposition should not read on, but branler has also a very vulgar demotic meaning, and you should never call anybody a branleur.

(If you check your dictionary, you are falling into the same trap as the Lady who complimented Samuel Johnson on keeping crude language out of his Lexicon.)

[ardcarp]

Needless to say, like the fabled Lady (and indeed like many an inquisitive 11-year-old) I have discovered that un putain de branleur is even worse. Could come in useful.....