CD48

CD48 Giovanni Giacomo                  Gastoldi
motets and duets arr. for horn choir

This recording provides the listener with calm music

This recording is a perfect calm background for our lives during the crisis

Secular Motets & Duets

A polyphonic composition based usually on a sacred text and sung without accompaniment.

Richard O. Burdick, horns

CD 48 the music of Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi
motets and duets arr. for horn choir

This is just nice music; there is no sense of authentic practice, no strange tunings, it's juts nice and calm.

This recording has two different works on it:
Balletti a cinque voci from 1591
Twelve Fun Pieces for two horns

Released: April 12, 2020

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About the Composer:

Giacomo Giovanni Gastoldi
(b. Caravaggio, ?; d. ? 1622)
Was the maestro di cappella at the church of Santa Barbara, Mantua, from about 1581 until his death in 1622. Before that served as a teacher of counterpoint. Of the music composed by Gastoldi, little is instrumental. He was the author of “Balletti a 5 per cantare, suonare, e ballare” (Venice, 1591—95; Antwerp, 1596), which are said to have served Morley as models for his “Ballets or Fa-las”. His later collections are “Balletti a 3 voci . . .” (1594) and “Canzo-nette a 3 voci”.
Gastoldi was one of the composers who wrote music for Guarini’s favola “Idropica”, per-formed at Mantua in 1608 (the others being Claudio and Giulio Cesare Monteverdi, Salomone Rossi, Monco and Paolo Biat).
Many of his collections were reprinted and influential in that they were imitated by notable composers such as Morley and Burdick.

About the Music:

I have known the music of Gastoldi since at least the early 1980's.

There are 12 duets in this 27 page book published by I Ching Music. Six of the duets are for horn 1 in the high range (up to high Bb) and horn 2 in the staff and a little below. A good range for both horns. The second set of six duets is lower for both parts. The second horn gets to read a fair amount of ledger lines below the treble clef staff, and is excellent practice for low horn players. Lot of fun here!

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About the Recording:

This multi track recording was done in December 2-19

Cover Photo : Downtown Seattle taken in 2018 by R Burdick

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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