CD38  CD Tour |
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December 5, 2015
Release on BandCamp: 2/2/2021
Program Notes:
This CD is really the Broken consort unbroken and the Flatte consort still flat, since it has been arranged for an ensemble of French horns which are all the same instruments.
Broken is an early Baroque terminology that refers to ensembles featuring instruments from more than one family, for example a group featuring both string and wind instruments.
These have been transposed from their original notation to better fit the range of the horn. Each Suite has been names a fifth lower than the original.
With each one of these short works, my recording process involved choosing an initial tempo, sight-reading while recording to get a start on each part .While doing this, I was looking for interpretive inspiration. I tried to make each one of these tracks a little different - not just mordents, trill and the common turn, but actually improvise and then imitate. Dynamics and slurs, which were not notated back in 1661, became part of the ornaments.
My favourite for this is the slow part in the first Flatte Consort trio, where I created a big “noodle” part first in the second horn, and then on the repeat in the first horn, I am very happy with this piece in particular, and the CD overall. I rushed this one recording it in about three weeks, so I had some major playing time on my new horn.
I was in no way trying to be authentic in my interpretation of this music, instead, just self-expressive. I made this an exercise in diversity.
About the Recording:
About the Performer:
Richard Burdick as a musician:
French hornist: Richard O. Burdick is the first horn of Regina Symphony Orchestra and the Regina Symphony Chamber Players in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a prolific composer.His move to Canada in 2003, with his wife Rebecca and his two boys, marked the start of the fourth major period in his musical Career.
In the 1980’s Richard was first Horn of Napa Symphony, a member of a San Francisco based theater orchestra and played lots of chamber music as manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts, a chamber music series in Berkeley California.
Starting in 1990 he played fourth Horn full-time for Sacramento Symphony, which went bankrupt in 1996. He then won auditions for Fresno Philharmonic, Napa & North State Symphonies and played in Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera.
He is a prolific composer and has many self produced CD’s of his own compositions, Bach, his classical natural horn playing and multi-track performances of many of his favorite pieces.
He performs on a variety of horns, a baroque natural horn (1720), a classical era natural horn (1800), a romantic era (1840's) natural horn, a single F horn from the 1880's, his main symphony horn is a Brendan Model Finke triple horn.
He has also done many music related jobs such as arranger for Sacramento Symphony, librarian and personal manager for Sacramento Philharmonic, and manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts (chamber music series) in Berkeley, California for 19 years starting in 1984.
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