Composer: John Bull, Antonio Selosse
Performer: Terence Charlston
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deux-Elles
Catalogue: DXL1143
Release: 2010
Size: 550 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
01. Selosse: Variations on La Folia in D Minor
02. Selosse: Ciaccona in C Major
03. Bull: The King’s Hunt in F Major
04. Selosse: Toccata in G Minor: Toccata in G Minor
Selosse: Suite in C Major
05. I. Courante and Variation
06. II. Sarabande and Variation
Selosse: Suite in F Major
07. I. Allemande
08. II. Sarabande
09. III. Variation 1
10. IV. Variation 2
11. V. Variation 3
12. Selosse: Chaconne in C Major
Selosse: Suite in G Major
13. I. Allemande
14. II. Courante and Variation
15. Selosse: Courante and Variations in G Minor
Selosse: Suite in D Major
16. I. Prelude
17. II. Allemande
18. III. Hornpipe or Rant
19. IV. Menuet
CD 02
01. Selosse: Toccata in C Major for the Vox Humana
02. Selosse: The Hunting Lesson in G Major
03. Selosse: Fuga Ite missa est in D Major
04. Selosse: Toccata in C Major for the Cornet and Echos
05. Selosse: Bergamasca in G Major
06. Selosse: Chaconne in F Major
Selosse: Suite in D Major
07. I. Allemande
08. II. Courante
09. III. Sarabande
10. Selosse: Allemande in F Major
11. Selosse: Allemande and Variation in G Minor
Selosse: Fitt fo the Manicorde
12. I. Allemande in C Minor
13. II. Allemande in C Minor
14. Selosse: Allemande and Variation in F Major
A newly discovered manuscript revealed to be the music of Antoine Selosse is given its premiere recording on disc by keyboard virtuoso, Terence Charlston.
This exciting and historically important new CD, entitled ‘La Chasse Royale’ presents a newly discovered manuscript of music by Antoine Selosse.
Although it seems possible that Antoine Selosse (the Jesuit musician Antonio Mason alias Selosse, 1621-87, who was active at the English Jesuit College of Saint Omer in the 1680s) is the ‘Selos’ to whom the contents of the manuscript were attributed in the first flyleaf inscription, various factors mitigate against his authorship of the whole collection. The repertoire chosen for inclusion in Selosse’s remarkable book covers a broad spectrum of the genres popular in seventeenth century Europe and reveals a wide range of national influences and styles. It consists of mainly dance pieces (often with variations of their own) and these are grouped by key. Few pieces have a specific title and no composers are named but the authorship of only one piece can be stated with confidence: Bull’s popular The King’s Hunt 3 and the suites in G major (13-14) and D major (16-19) are strikingly similar, on stylistic grounds, to works by John Roberts.
La Chasse Royale