Music Speaks: Ohrwurm – Tabea Debus, recorder & Paul Morton, theorbo, lute

“A romp through catchy tunes from the 14th century all the way through to contemporary solo recorder pieces.'  – BBC Radio 3

Described by The Times as a charismatic virtuoso, recorder player Tabea Debus is constantly exploring the horizons of music for recorder and has performed widely across Europe, Asia, Colombia and the USA. Ohrwurm explores how tunes and dances wormed their way into many aspects of music-making in 17th and 18th-century Europe – and, in traversing the centuries, contemporary compositions testify to the earworm’s secured place in modern life.

Program

Ciaconna Medley
After various Italian composers including Antonio Bertali (1605-1669), Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665) and Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
(arr. Tabea Debus)

Anonymous (16th century)
La Monica or Une jeune fillette 

Pierre-Francisque Carroubel (1556-1611/15)
Spagnolette – from: Terpsichore, Musarum Aoniarum (Michael Praetorius, 1612)

Gareth Moorcraft (born 1990)
Diaries of the Early Worm (2019, for Tabea Debus)

John Dowland (1563-1626)
Prelude in G

Johann Schop (1590-1667)
Pavane Lachrimae 

John Dowland (1563-1626)         
La Mia Barbara 
The Earle of Essex Galiard, or Can she excuse my wrongs

Jacob van Eyck (1590-1657)
Engels Nachtegaeltje 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja 

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Fairest Isle 

Division Flute (1706) & John Johnson (around 1590)
Variations on Greensleeves (arr. Tabea Debus)

Suite delle Donne (arr. Tabea Debus)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) – Suite from Il Ballo delle Ingrate
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – Für Elise

Charles Hurel (died c. 1692)
Prelude, Allemande – from: Suite in G Major for solo theorbo

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)                                                                                                                    
Courante, Menuet 1 and 2 – from: BWV 813  (arr. Tabea Debus)

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (1580-1651)                      
Canzona in D minor

Andrea Falconieri (1585-1656)                                               
La suave melodia

Diego Ortiz (c. 1510-1576)
Segunda sobre tenores Italianos – from: Trattado de Glosas (1553)

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