Helge Slaatto - Ars Nova – New Music (2019)

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01. Lai No. 1, Loyauté que point ne delay (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
02. Ballade No. 8, De desconfort (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
03. Ballade No. 6, Doulz amis (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
04. Ballade No. 24, Tres douce dame (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
05. Virelai No. 26, Mors sui se je ne vous voy (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
06. Ballade No. 15, Se je me pleing (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
07. Virelai No. 13, Quant je sui mis (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
08. Virelai No. 24, En mon cuer (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
09. Virelai No. 25, Tuit mi penser (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
10. Ballade No. 1, S'amours ne fait (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
11. Virelai No. 30, Se je souspir (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
12. Rondeau No. 2, Helas! pour quoy (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
13. Ballade No. 9, Dame, ne regardes pas (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
14. Ballade No. 5, Riches d'amour et mendians (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
15. Ballade No. 13, Esperance qui m'asseure (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
16. Virelai No. 4, Douce dame jolie (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
17. Ballade No. 16, Dame, comment qu'amez (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
18. Virelai No. 5, Comment qu'a moy (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
19. Virelai No. 31, Moult sui de bonne heure nee (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
20. Lai No. 6, Amours doucement (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
21. Plainsound Study No. 1, Op. 61a
22. Scrutator alme cordium (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
23. Favellandi vicium (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
24. Mundus a mundicia (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
25. Quare fremuerunt (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
26. In mari miserere (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
27. Ad solitum vomitum (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
28. Veritas arpie (Roman de Fauvel, 14th century) [Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass]
29. Ade costa dormientis (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)
30. Inter amenitatis tripudia (Arr. F. Reinecke & H. Slaatto for Violin & Double Bass)

The music of Guillaume de Machaut and Philippe de Vitry was radically new over 650 years ago; Vitry himself coined the term “ars nova” for it.

Now Helge Slaatto (violin) and Frank Reinecke (double bass) show how closely the power of this music was connected to the common intonation system of the time, based on pure perfect fifths, which lead to highly tense thirds.

Wolfgang Schweinitz examined this system for a long time and became one of the pioneers of just intonation. “Study No. I op. 61a” can be considered the quintessential result of this work. Using the tiniest microtonal distinctions, for which he even developed his own notation system, he creates a music consisting purely of intervals derived from the harmonic series.

The Slaatto-Reinecke duo, who have been specialists in just intonation for many years, draw a fascinating line from the Ars Nova of the 14th century to the New Music of our time.

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