Drawn from The First Part of Ayres (1605) and Captaine Humes Poeticall Musicke (1607), Marianne Muller's selection of Tobias Hume's works for one, two and three viola da gambas paints a one-sided picture of the Jacobean adventurer.
Though beautifully played by Muller, Liam Fennelly and Pau Marcos, Hume's dolorous dances sit strangely with Eric Fischer's Topographic Long-Range (2008), which explores the same techniques and textures in a very different musical language – spiked with the tang of East European folk music.
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