Notes and Editorial Reviews
If Kapsbergers, courses and strascini sound to you more like a culinary experience than a musical one, then consider this selection of works by Masters of the Lute – an excellent introduction to the repertoire of the instrument’s Golden Age. Matthew Wadsworth journeys across Europe explore a range of musical styles as well as the changing instrumental techniques and technologies that gave birth to the theorbo, the lute’s long-necked big brother. En route, he samples the dark-hued melancholy of John Dowland; the daring, experimental style of ‘the German of the theorbo’, Giovanni Kapsberger; sonorous dance suites by Robert de Visée, chamber musicians at the Court of Louis XIV; and a rare Passacaglia by the Bohemian composer Heinrich
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Biber. Wadsworth is an accomplished player, thoroughly at ease with the idioms of this challenging repertoire and technically a master indeed of his instrument. He underscores the brooding melancholy that characterises so much of this music, offering introspective, poised readings – at times, so hypnotically measured that the music’s forward momentum seems almost suspended. Cleanly articulated sound, recorded in rich detail.
-- Kate Bolton, BBC Music Magazine
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Works on This Recording
1.
Preludium, P 98 by John Dowland
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
Date of Recording: 09/2005
Venue: St Martins Church, East Woodhay, England
Length: 1 Minutes 27 Secs.
2.
Forlorne Hope Fancye, P 2 by John Dowland
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
Length: 4 Minutes 0 Secs.
3.
Lachrimae Pavan, P 15 by John Dowland
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
Length: 5 Minutes 2 Secs.
4.
Galliard to Lachrimae, P 46 by John Dowland
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
Length: 3 Minutes 5 Secs.
5.
My Lord Willobes Wellcome Home, P 66 by John Dowland
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
Length: 1 Minutes 31 Secs.
6.
Earl of Essex, his Galliard, P 42a by John Dowland
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
Length: 1 Minutes 59 Secs.
7.
Libro IV d'intavolatura di chitarrone: Kapsberger by Giovanni Kapsberger
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1640; Italy
Length: 4 Minutes 19 Secs.
8.
Greensleeves by Traditional
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; England
Length: 3 Minutes 58 Secs.
9.
Libro I d'intavolatura di lauto: Toccata arpeggiata by Giovanni Kapsberger
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1611; Italy
Length: 2 Minutes 53 Secs.
10.
Intavolatura di liuto et di chitarrone, Book 1: Toccata no 10 by Alessandro Piccinini
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1623; Bologna, Italy
Length: 2 Minutes 52 Secs.
11.
Intavolatura di liuto et di chitarrone, Book 1: Chiaconna in partite variate by Alessandro Piccinini
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1623; Bologna, Italy
Length: 3 Minutes 20 Secs.
12.
Unpublished manuscript pieces: Prélude no 1 by Robert de Visée
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Baroque
Length: 1 Minutes 23 Secs.
13.
Unpublished manuscript pieces: Allemande no 1 by Robert de Visée
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Baroque
Length: 2 Minutes 43 Secs.
14.
Unpublished manuscript pieces: Courante by Robert de Visée
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Baroque
Length: 1 Minutes 41 Secs.
15.
Unpublished manuscript pieces: Sarabande no 1 by Robert de Visée
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Baroque
Length: 4 Minutes 29 Secs.
16.
Unpublished manuscript pieces: Gigue no 1 by Robert de Visée
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Baroque
Length: 1 Minutes 44 Secs.
17.
Chaconne des Harlequins de Monsieur Lully by Robert de Visée
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Baroque
Written: France
Length: 3 Minutes 12 Secs.
18.
Sonatas (8) for Violin and Basso Continuo: no 6 in C minor by Heinrich Ignaz Biber
Performer:
Matthew Wadsworth (Lute)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1681; Bohemia
Length: 6 Minutes 53 Secs.
Notes: Arranger: Ferdinand Fischer.
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