Swedish classical guitarist Göran Söllscher has a certain following among guitar buffs of all kinds thanks to a unique contraption he plays -- an 11-string guitar, built specifically to allow him, like some of his famous predecessors on the classical guitar, to explore the lute repertory of the Renaissance and Baroque periods more fully. He has ...
Fruits de la Passion is a sampler disc, presenting music that was heard at the Montreal Baroque Music Festival in 2003 and 2004. It's not clear why it is labeled with the date 2005. Perhaps it was intended to be sold at the 2005 festival but was released later for general sale. In any event, it's an invitation to the festival, held in the Old ...
The subtitle of this album is "Jewels from Europe around 1600," and the "Jewels" could as well be applied to Emma Kirkby's voice and Jakob Lindberg's lute playing -- delicate but strong, beguiling, throwing off brilliant light. Kirkby's light soprano is ideal for this repertoire -- absolutely pure, but full of character and expressiveness, with a ...
Matthew Wadsworth is a fast-rising young British lutenist who numbers among his many accomplishments the development of a Braille lute tablature. He has accompanied singers, played in continuo groups, and performed various types of lute repertoire. With this release he takes on a collection that itself includes music from various European ...
This release may seem from the looks of it to be of a specialized kind. It's devoted, not to a selection of lute pieces devised by the performer, but to a single manuscript, the so-called ML Lutebook housed in the British Library. The name comes from the fact that the initials ML are stamped on the book's cover. That created a mystery of the sort ...
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