Ralph Rousseau Plays Tobias Hume - A Pritty Thing VINYL LP STS6111165
For any lover of the Viola Da Gamba (not now a well known or often played instrument) or lover of 16th / 17th Centurry music, this album of compositions from the hand of Scottish composer Tobias Hume (1579-1645) will come as something of a revelation.
Recorded in the Chapel of the Fransciscan Convent in Utrecht, Ralph Rousseau plays a 6-string Viola da Gamba made by Georrge Aman in the early 18th Century.
The Viola da Gamba has been a regular instrument Ralph has played at his concerts over the past 20 years, this recording onto tape for LP has had no editing whatsoever and the results are stunning.
tracklist
A1 The Spirit Of Gambo
A2 A Soldiers Mask
A3 Captaine Humes Pavan
A4 T Sa Ala Mod Du' France
A5 A Soldiers Resolution
A6 Toy Suite
A7 My Mistress Hath A Pritty Thing
A8 Maister Crasse His Almayne
B1 A Preludum
B2 A Soldiers Galiard
B3 A French Ayre
B4 Captain Humes Almayne
B5 A Mediation
B6 The New Knights Humor
B7 The Earle Of Pembrooke His Gailard
B8 A French Jigge
B9 A Question
B10 Ha Couragie
B11 An Answere
B12 Now I Come
B13 My Mistresse Maske
