Solo Music From The Eighteenth Century - Davenport & Bixler

 

Solo Music From The Eighteen Century

Solo Music From The Eighteenth Century

LaNoue Davenport - Recorder

Martha Bixler - Harpsichord

Classic Editions CE 1048

1962

The soprano and alto recorders were made by Arnold Dolmetsch, Ltd.

The tenor recorder is from Hermann Moeck Verlag

The harpsichord is by Neupert

From the back cover: LaNoue Davenport

LaNoue Davenport is one of the most widely-known figures in the recorder-playing world and in the field of authentic performance of early music. He has reached this position by a devious route, have been born in Dallas, Texas, of a musical family whose father was the first instructor in music of the four children. His first instrument was the piano (age five), then trumpet (age thirteen), with which he was content through high school, four years in the U.S., Navy, The New York College of Music, a year in a Broadway pit, and numerous small jazz bands in Texas and New York. His interest in early music was stimulated through courses with Irish Katz, and, borrowing a recorder from a friend, he was soon participating in concerts in and around New York. The trumpet was discarded, recorders began to accumulate, and soon this fascinating instrument, along with the music written for it, was occupying all his time.

He is the musicl director of The Manhattan Consort, a group specializing in Baroque music; featured recorder player with New York Pro Musica, which performs Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Baroque music; and is President of The American Recorder Society (1959-60, 1960-61). Since he is also a composer with several documentary ilm scores, and radio and concert performances of his music, to his credit, this gives him an interest in music of all periods except the Classic and Romantic.He admits to little (Classic) or no (Romantic) interest in these eras.

A summer's tour of Europe with New York Pro Musica in 1960 culminated in his being invited to lecture and play to The Summer School for Recorder Players in Roehampton, England, and in his being appointed an honorary Vice-President of The Society of Recorder Players or Great Britain.

Martha Bixler

Martha Bixler's first music lessons were on the piano, and this remained her chief musical instrument for many years. As a child she also played the recorder, violin and clarinet, and in college she was a serious student of voice.

Her interest in early music began while she was a piano student at the Yale University School of Music and a member of the Collegium Musicum, conducted by Paul Hindemith. Although her degree from Yale was in piano, she became more and more involved in the performance os music of the Medieval, Renaissance andBaroque, or "pre-piano" periods, first as a vocalist in small groups working with Hindemith, later as a recorder student of LaNoue Davenport, and finally as harpsichordist with the Manhattan Consort.

She has been a member of the Executive Board of The American Recorder Society since 1956, and for two years editor of Society's quarterly journal, The American Recorded. In New York she is well known as the conductor of several small recorder ensembles, a teacher of recorder at the New York College of Music and director of music at a private school for girls.

Miss Bixler's numerous appearance in performances if early music include concerts with the Manhattan Consort, the Four Seasons Consort, and as accompanist to Mr. Davenport in solo recitals in New York. She was harpsichordist for music to the film short, "Christopher and Me" (scored by LaNoue Davenport) made in 1959.

Sonta in D Minor

   Largo – Vivace – Furioso – Adagio – All Breve

   Alto Recorder and Harpsichord

Sonata In C Major

   Larghetto – Allegro – Larghetto – A Tempo di Gavotti – Allegro

   Alto Recorder and Harpsichord

Suite in G Minor

   Overture – Allemande – Courante – Sarabande – Gavotte – Menuet – Gigue

   Tenor Recorder and Harpsichord

Sonata in A Major

   Larghetto – Allegro – Adagio – Allegro

   Alto Recorder and Harpsichord

Suite in G Major

   Siciliano – Allegro – Vivace – Affettuoso – Presto – Tempo di Minuet

   Soprano Recorder and Harpsichord