RENAISSANCE PLAYERS - The Cat's Fiddlestick - 1/2 Speed Mastered Oz PROMO 12" LP
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Jul 6, 2018
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The Renaissance Players, The Cat's Fiddlestick
Rare Australian, Cherry Pie Records Half Speed Mastered Promo.
Original, Australian Half Speed Mastered Promo issue.
Tip Top condition throughout.
Cherry Pie Promo sticker on the Side One label.
In stunning condition, Like New.
Includes the Original insert, and Half Speed Mastered Hype sticker.
NM / NM / NM / NM
few w The Renaissance Players are directed by Winsome Evans, Associate Professor in the Music Department at The University of Sydney. The group was founded in 1966/7, and has a nucleus of nine to ten musicians (singers and instrumentalists), which is varied according to the needs of particular performances. In addition, the group contains a poetry reader, and occasionally one or two miming clowns.
The Renaissance Players have established themselves as the oldest, most accomplished and widely known early music group in Australia. Their sense of musical style, colourful costuming, technical ability and vital presentation add up to consistently exciting performances.
The group’s name was particularly chosen to demonstrate its main function of resuscitating and giving new life to music of both the past and the present. The intention has been not to limit the repertoire to the so-called Renaissance period, but to expand as far backwards (and forwards) as possible. Under this banner, the group felicitously performs a wide range of music dating from as early as the 9th century through to contemporary folk/rock and classical styles, using replicas of, and/or ethnically authentic, instruments where possible, and attempting to reproduce performance styles appropriate to whatever music is played.
The library of The Renaissance Players contains over 2,500 pieces, which have all been collected, arranged and/or composed by Winsome Evans (sometimes operating under a creative pseudonym, Snave Pluckpayres).
In addition to their regular performances in The Great Hall and MacLaurin Hall at The University of Sydney, the John Clancy Auditorium at the University of New South Wales, the Everest Theatre (Seymour Centre) and the Sydney Opera House, the group has travelled extensively throughout Australia for the ABC, Musica Viva and various festival organisations. In 1974, they undertook an extensive tour of South East Asia, from India down to New Guinea, for Musica Viva Australia and the Department of Foreign Affairs, as part of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's cultural exchange program.
In addition to their various concert performances, The Renaissance Players have, in most years since 1973, presented The Runnymede Pop Festival in March/April; a Christmas Pudding Concert in December; and also, since 1976, an annual mid-year event in memory of Professor Frederick May.
The Renaissance Players have also provided feature music for television, film, ABC radio plays and special documentaries. As well, they have instigated six unique theatrical productions of mediaeval liturgical drama and 16th century commedia in musica. In all cases the music was researched, arranged and directed by Winsome Evans.
The group’s public recitals reflect the labour of copious research into various methods of decorating and extending basic musical structures, and into patterns of instrumentation. All of these elements were left entirely to the performers’ discretion and versatility during the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance period, as indeed they still are in much of present day popular and traditional music.
Research into performance practices has led to concerts in combination with eastern European groups, such the Turkish Anatolian Minstrels and the Arabic Eastern Music Band. Performers from living folk traditions have from time to time been members of the group, and have contributed their particular expertise and knowledge of Celtic, Balkan, Persian, Middle Eastern and Jewish music to building up a body of performance techniques which are useful in attempting to reconstruct mediaeval European folk music. In addition, the Players have also been involved in experimental concerts in which common and/or contrasting concepts of style and structure are revealed. This has included concerts with avant-garde ensembles, as well as concerts with Don Burrows and George Golla.
Generally, The Renaissance Players present programs which develop themes of satire, comedy, pathos and whimsy, by combining songs and instrumental pieces with poetry, mime, and/or dance. In 1997, The Renaissance Players were nominated for the classical section of the ARIA awards. ords about condition.
Grade &
score out of 100
GRADING
Mint is a Rigid Band - The next Four Grades are all Narrow Bands, that slightly widen as the condition gradually deteriorates - Good is still Good, but there is a rapid widening of the Grade Bands, as the condition deteriorates over the last Four grades.
MINT
100
The record itself is in brand new condition with no surface marks or deterioration in sound quality.
The cover and any extra items such as the lyric sheet, booklet or poster are in perfect condition.
Only graded on records that are sealed or clearly unplayed.
NEAR MINT
97 to 99
EXCELLENT
90 to 96
The record shows virtually no signs of having been played, there is no lessening in sound quality.
The cover and packaging might have the slightest of tiny defects.
The record shows some slight signs of having been played, but there is very little, (if any) lessening in sound quality.
The cover and packaging might have very slight wear.
VERY GOOD PLUS
80 to 89
VERY GOOD
69 to 79
The record shows signs of having been played, but there is very little lessening in sound quality.
The cover and packaging might have slight wear, light creasing.
The record has obviously been played many times, but displays no major deterioration in sound quality, despite noticeable surface marks and the occasional light scratch.
Normal wear and tear on the cover or extra items, without any major defects.
This is an above average used record, that has been well looked after.
GOOD
56 to 68
The record has been played so much that the sound quality has deteriorated, but the record will still play through, and it will not be a completely unpleasant listening experience, even at the bottom of this grade (56).
The cover and contents may suffer from folding, scuffing of edges, spine splits, discolouration, etc.
FAIR
41 to 55
The record is still playable but has not been cared for properly and displays considerable surface noise; it may even stick, skip or jump.. This is starting to be an unpleasant listening experience at the top of the grade (55) and will not be a pleasant listening experience at all by the end of it (41).
The cover and contents will be torn, stained and/or defaced.
POOR
25 to 40
The record will not play properly due to scratches, bad surface noise, etc.
The cover and contents will be badly damaged or partly missing.
BAD
0 - 24
The record is unplayable or might even be broken, and is only of use as a collection-filler.
The Sleeve is non existent (0) or what is left, is only just recognisable.
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