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Jakob Lindberg81:50BIS-2265 SACDMusic by Dufault, Kellner, Mouton, “Mr Pachelbel”, Reusner, Weiss Jakob Lindberg’s first CD featuring the lute made c. 1590 by Sixtus Rauwolf, is an anthology of music by French and German composers. It begins with a sombre Padoana by Esias Reusner (1636-79), which lies low on the instrument and is reminiscent of English […]
Joachim Held lute59:00hänssler classic CD HC19034 For this excellent CD of Polish renaissance lute music Joachim Held plays seven pieces by Albert Dlugoraj (1558-after 1618), eight by Diomedes Cato (1565-1628), nine by Jakub Polak (c.1545-1605), and seven anonymous pieces. The first track for each of the three named composers is a prelude, setting the mood […]
ed. Paolo Cherici 44pp. €15.95 ISMN: 979-0-2153-2359-9 SDS 25 (Bologna: Ut Orpheus, 2017) [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he first publisher and printer of music was Ottaviano Petrucci (1466-1539), and his first book, Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, appeared in 1501. Between 1507 and 1511 Petrucci printed six volumes of lute music with Italian lute tablature: two books by Francesco Spinacino (both […]
Michele Carreca renaissance lute 52:43 deutsche harmonia mundi 88985374332 [dropcap]G[/dropcap]iacomo Gorzanis (c. 1525-1574) was a blind lute player from Puglia, who spent much of his life in Trieste. He is best remembered today for having composed twelve settings of the passamezzo antico and passamezzo moderno, each followed by a saltarello, in all 24 possible keys, […]
Jakob Lindberg 81:11 BIS-2202 SACD Music by Marco dall’Aquila, Alberto da Mantova & Francesco da Milano [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he three Italian virtuosi represented here are Francesco da Milano (1497-1543), Marco dall’ Aquila (c.1480-after 1538), and Alberto da Mantova (c.1500-51), who was also known in France as Albert de Rippe. The CD begins with Francesco’s well-known Fantasia “La […]
Nigel North lute 73:58 BGS Records BGS 125 [dropcap]T[/dropcap]his is Nigel North’s third volume of music by Weiss, in which he plays a Parthie in D minor, a Sonata in C minor, and a Sonata in F minor. Weiss’s works have been catalogued by Douglas Alton Smith, “The Late Sonatas of Silvius Leopold Weiss”, Stanford […]
Žak Ozmo 63:03 Hyperion CDA68017 [dropcap]V[/dropcap]incenzo Galilei (c.1520-1591), father of the famous astronomer, was a remarkable musician. As a member of the Florentine Camerata, he contributed to the evolution of opera, and to the transition from renaissance polyphonic compositions to the new baroque style with elaborate melodies supported by simple chords. He was also one […]
Ensemble Inégal, Adam Viktora 50:35 Nibiru 01602231 [dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou might think the idea of sitting through almost an hour of soprano duet strophic settings of an unintelligible language with only brief ritornelli for a pair of violins would be torture, but not when the music in question is (a) by Adam Michna whose songs all sound […]
Vinícius Perez 62:14 klanglogo KL1515 Haydn: Sonata in C, Hob XVI:10 Kohaut: Sonata in D Mozart: Divertimento KV 439b/II Scheidler: Thème de Mozart varié [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n this very enjoyable CD, Vinícius Perez explores music which is not usually heard on the lute. He begins with his own arrangement of Joseph Haydn’s Sonata in C (Divertimento Hob […]
Michał Gondko renaissance lute 70:51 Ramée RAM 1406 [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n his extensive liner notes Michal Gondko defines Polonica as music with a Polish title, composed by a Pole, or which the copyist describes as Polish. He has assembled an interesting collection of lute music from the 1580s to the 1620s. There is considerable variety, from simple […]