Since you are interested in Lute-Harpsichord Music, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
VIVALDI / J.S. BACH
Baroque Guitar Favourites Gerald Garcia (Guitar) / Camerata Cassovia / Peter Breiner [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Sep/2007 ] "Sensitive phrasing, strong tone quality and tidy ornamentation are present throughout" - Classical Guitar |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Music for Shakespeare's theatre Gerald place (tenor) Rebecca Hickey (soprano) Dorothy Linell (lute) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] Music played an important role in the Renaissance theatre and Shakespeare brought new subtlety to its use. In a theatre without lights and sets, it fell to music to underline mood, whether for magic, comedy, feasting or pathos. Here are thirty or so... |
LORENZINO DEL LIUTO
Lute Music Marco Pesci (Lute) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Oct/2006 ] Lorenzino del Liuto (properly Lorenzo Tracetti) was one of the most famous and accomplished virtuosi of the lute. He lived in the second half of the sixteenth century and he must be counted among those composers who strongly influenced Italian and... |
JOHN DOWLAND
Dowland: Lute Music, Vol. 3 - Pavans, Galliards and Almains Nigel North (lute) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Jan/2008 ] "From sympathetic gravitas to benugn smile, worldly-wise courliness to sonorous swagger, North is a Dowland-ist for all seasons" Instrumental Recording of the Month BBC Music |
Robert Barto, lute
Hagen - Lute Sonatas / Locatelli Variations [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] Robert Barto graduated from the University of California, San Diego, having specialised in historical lute performance. A Fulbright scholarship brought him to Europe, where he continued his studies with Michael Schaeffer in Cologne and Eugen Dombois... |
SILVIUS WEISS
Lute Sonatas, Vol. 7: Lute Sonata No. 15 & 48 Robert Barto (lute) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Jun/2006 ] "Both are full of superb music, from the serious grandeur of the allemande which opens the earlier sonata to the dazzling presto which closes the later one. This is a disc for all lovers of the lute." (MusicWeb Sept 2006) |
SILVIUS WEISS
Lute Sonatas, Volume 9 [32, 52, 94] Robert Barto (lute) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "The recording, made in St Andrew's Church, Toddington, is once again first class and Tim Crawford's notes enhance this characteristically fine disc. Barto has competitors in Weiss recordings - Imamura and Lindberg among them - but for my money he is... |
SILVIUS WEISS
Lute Sonatas Vol.1: Sonata No. 36, 42 and 49 Robert Barto (lute) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Jan/2005 ] "He is a supple and stylish performer, and this excellently recorded disc contains some of the finest playing of Weiss I have yet heard. Very strongly recommended." - Gramophone |