Various Composers - L'entropia (Lina Tur Bonet; Jadran Duncumb)

Information

1. Johann Paul von Westhoff - “Imitazione delle Campane”
2. Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli - Sonata “La Vinciolina”
3. Biagio Marini - Romanesca
4. Giuseppe Colombi - Sarabanda con la scordatura
5. Samuel Capricornus - Sonata in E minor
6. Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset - “Printemps”
7. Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger - Ballo
8. Giovanni Battista Fontana - Sonata Seconda
9. Nicola Matteis - Preludio in Fantasia
10. Nicola Matteis - Scaramuccia
11. Nicola Matteis - Passaggio Rotto
12. Nicola Matteis - Fantasia
13. Biagio Marini - Sonata Quarta
14. Francesco Corbetta - Folias
15. Nicola Matteis - Adagio
16. Nicola Matteis - Ciaccona sopra la vecchia Sarabanda
17. Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde - Sonata Terza

Lina Tur Bonet, baroque violin

Jadran Duncumb, theorbo & baroque guitar

Date: 2025

Label: Glossa

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In physics, entropy measures the degree of disorder in a system and the associated arrangement possibilities. Lina Tur Bonet chose this term as the title for her new CD on GLOSSA, on which she - together with theorbist Jadran Duncumb - interprets Italian violin music of the so-called stylus phantasticus. This style developed in Italy in the late 16th century from the practice of improvisation. It is characterized by a decidedly expressive style of playing in which short, sometimes dissonant and bizarre figures, sometimes extreme chromaticism, rapid virtuoso runs and sections with an ostinato bass are combined as in a free improvisation. Johann Mattheson confirmed this impression in his book Der vollkommene Kapellmeister in 1739: "For this style is the freest and most unrestricted way of setting, singing and playing that one can conceive of, since one soon comes up with these and then those ideas, since all kinds of otherwise unusual passages, hidden ornaments, meaningful turns and embellishments are produced, without actual observation of the act and tone; sometimes hasty, sometimes hesitant; sometimes monophonic, sometimes polyphonic; sometimes a short time after the act: without sound mass; but not without the intention to please, to hurry and to astonish."

For Lina Tur Bonet, the entropy of the stylus phantasticus symbolizes the unexpected twists and turns to which the two musicians expose each other. It stands for the unpredictable nature of a piece in a free, quasi-improvised interpretation. The spontaneity of the two players' reactions allows the creativity of the stylus phantasticus to blossom in a completely new way and leads the listener into an untamed and fantastic cosmos full of surprises.

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