2024 TAYNTON w/Ed Williams
Performed by Ed Williams and Chloé Saffores.
Recorded on iPhone in June 2023 at St. Lawrence Church, Taynton, Gloucestershire, England.
Released April 1, 2024 on bandcamp.
1. Frescobaldi – Kirie Alio Modo I 15:27
2. Couperin – Prelude non mesuré no. 3 10:14
3. Frescobaldi – Kirie Alio Modo II 13:19
Taking music from Girolamo Frescobaldi’s Fiori Musicali (1635) and Louis Couperin’s “préludes non mesurés” (c.1650), we went to the church organ of St. Lawrence in Taynton, England, in summer 2023 to “decompose” what was written by these composers nearly 400 years earlier.
We worked with the resistance of the keys as our fingers became engaged in a dance requiring the utmost attention to contact, playing with tact and gravity, taking care of the unintentional arabesques of sound that escaped.
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