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# Broken Consort Part 1 / Tripla Concordia

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Matthew Locke was the most prominent English musician of the generation before Purcell, occupying a unique place between the Renaissance consort tradition and Baroque chamber music. The Broken Consort refers to a group with mixed instruments, and Locke's pieces entertained royalty with their ambitiously chromatic tonal language and rhythmic quirkiness. The Composer to the Private Musick was never happier than with surprisingly angular melodies and dramatic gestures 'into the theatricall way'. This recording is the début release of Wayward Sisters, winners of the 2011 Early Music America/Naxos Recording Competition.












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"Broken," in 17th-century musical jargon, designates a chamber group using mixed instruments (e.g., lutes and viols) as opposed to a "whole" ensemble (e.g., all viols). Locke organized and composed for such a consort at the court of King Charles II, continuing a tradition of Renaissance chamber music when baroque style had become the rage in the rest of Europe. He also wrote incidental music for revivals of Shakespeare's plays. It is gentle music, intimate, intricate and intended to be enjoyed by the players and small groups of friends. This recording is the debut release of Wayward Sisters, whose name, according to their biography, "refers not only to Henry Purcell's vivid conjuring of Shakespeare's witches, but to the group members' far-flung lives and continuing commitment to making music together." --WQXR Radio, April 2014Matthew Locke was the most prominent English musician of the generation before Purcell, occupying a unique place between the Renaissance consort tradition and Baroque chamber music. The Broken Consort refers to a group with mixed instruments, and Locke's pieces entertained royalty with their ambitiously chromatic tonal language and rhythmic quirkiness. This recording is the debut release of Wayward Sisters, winners of the 2011 Early Music America/Naxos Recording Competition. --WFMT, April 2014

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A different approach to Locke's consort music
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2017*

Matthew Locke's six suites from Part I of his Broken Consort collection are graceful and melodically attractive music. Although the composer scored them specifically for string consort and theorbo, they are here offered by the four musicians of the American-based Wayward Sisters playing on baroque violin, recorder, cello and theorbo. Although they are not literally sisters, and only three-quarters of them are female, they are still a very fine ensemble delivering skilful and musicianly playing with ideal choices of tempo throughout.Locke's six suites from the First Part of his Broken Consort collection are all in the consistent format of Fantazie, Courante, Ayre and Saraband. The Fantazie movements are the more extended, in several sections with especially beautiful fugato passages. The dances are full of attractive melodies, and the Sarabands are more lively than the usual stately tradition of this dance would suggest. Two suites from the multi-composer Tripla Concordia collection which open and conclude the disc, in G major and E minor respectively, are contrasting and more extended works in the then-fashionable French style. These, too, are extremely enjoyable music full of fine melodies.The only problem with the present disc is the competition, in the form of a beautiful two-disc recording of both parts of Locke's Broken Consort collection. This is played to perfection by the Locke Consort, moreover in the composer's original scoring for strings and theorbo. The present version, from Wayward Sisters, with its prominent recorder part standing out very prominently against the strings, is a different matter. It is very enjoyable to listen to, but to me the dominance of that instrument – no matter how beautifully played, which it is – detracts (and distracts the listener) from the more subtle effects of the composer's part-writing.Booklet notes are very good; recorded sound is good too, as long as you accept that it doesn't attempt to rectify the balance between recorder and strings. I am very glad to have both recordings; moreover, the present one does include the Tripla Concordia Suite in E minor which is not present in the Locke Consort's two-disc set. But, ultimately, the latter bring more weight and depth to Locke's very fine music, and so they would be my first choice.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Excellent introduction by new Baroque quartet
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2014*

Wayward Sisters (from Shakespeare's Weird Sisters in Macbeth, scored by Locke) fill in a small part of the missing repertoire of instrumental music by this well-known English composer.  Locke was Henry Purcell's first teacher and famous as both a composer and a musical theoretician.  Locke is far less performed and appreciated in the US, and I hope this first elegant and expressive recording will introduce his inventiveness and mastery of composition for instrumental ensemble to a wider audience.  One can imagine he would have approved of a broken consort performing his works and especially of this debut recording by the young and energetic members of this new quartet.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A different approach to Locke's consort music
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2017*

Matthew Locke's six suites from Part I of his Broken Consort collection are graceful and melodically attractive music. Although the composer scored them specifically for string consort and theorbo, they are here offered by the four musicians of the American-based Wayward Sisters playing on baroque violin, recorder, cello and theorbo. Although they are not literally sisters, and only three-quarters of them are female, they are still a very fine ensemble delivering skilful and musicianly playing with ideal choices of tempo throughout.Locke's six suites from the First Part of his Broken Consort collection are all in the consistent format of Fantazie, Courante, Ayre and Saraband. The Fantazie movements are the more extended, in several sections with especially beautiful fugato passages. The dances are full of attractive melodies, and the Sarabands are more lively than the usual stately tradition of this dance would suggest. Two suites from the multi-composer Tripla Concordia collection which open and conclude the disc, in G major and E minor respectively, are contrasting and more extended works in the then-fashionable French style. These, too, are extremely enjoyable music full of fine melodies.The only problem with the present disc is the competition, in the form of a beautiful two-disc recording of both parts of Locke's Broken Consort collection. This is played to perfection by the Locke Consort, moreover in the composer's original scoring for strings and theorbo. The present version, from Wayward Sisters, with its prominent recorder part standing out very prominently against the strings, is a different matter. It is very enjoyable to listen to, but to me the dominance of that instrument – no matter how beautifully played, which it is – detracts (and distracts the listener) from the more subtle effects of the composer's part-writing.Booklet notes are very good; recorded sound is good too, as long as you accept that it doesn't attempt to rectify the balance between recorder and strings. I am very glad to have both recordings; moreover, the present one does include the Tripla Concordia Suite in E minor which is not present in the Locke Consort's two-disc set. But, ultimately, the latter bring more weight and depth to Locke's very fine music, and so they would be my first choice.

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