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Baron: Music for Lute Solo & Lute and Recorder / Hofstotter, Korchynska, Bil
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Baron: Music for Lute Solo & Lute and Recorder / Hofstotter, Korchynska, Bil

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Composer
Ernst Gottlieb Baron
Artist
Bernhard Hofstotter, Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Jun 24, 2022
Catalog #
BRI96080
UPC
5028421960807

About

Though the music of Ernst Gottlieb Baron (1696–1760) is scarcely known to the wider public, the complete edition of his surviving compositions presented by Jan W.J. Burgers in 2005 offers an excellent opportunity to study and perform the works of this late Baroque master and restore them to the status they deserve. Though it can be assumed a large portion of his work was lost, with around a dozen suites for solo lute and ten ensemble pieces with obbligato lute, Baron’s extant oeuvre is nonetheless substantial. In the solo compositions, we predominantly find short, mostly two-part pieces in a late Baroque idiom. While these ‘simple’ suites, likely intended for pupils, offer little justification for Baron’s contemporaries having ranked him among the most important German composers of his day, the solo compositions also include works of a very different quality. The first four movements of the Suite [Partie] in F recorded here draw on wide-ranging melodic arcs and expressive modulations. The Suite [Sonata] in B flat is attributed by the original copyist to Silvius Leopold Weiss, and to Baron only by a later copyist. But it has been rightly pointed out that the presumed authorship of Weiss does not stand up to a stylistic comparison. Baron’s ensemble works include eight suites or sonatas for lute and melody instrument with a cello at times added as a bass part. In some of these works the treatment of the lute part is particularly virtuosic, assigning the lute an important role in the melodic composition. Baron’s surviving chamber music shows him as a master of the ‘galant’ style and offers attractive and original music from a time in which the lute was already losing ground before disappearing completely from concert life in the second half of the 18th century, soon after Baron’s death.

Tracklist 29 tracks

  1. 1 I. Adagio 02:01
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Adagio
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter
  2. 2 II. Allegro 01:52
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    01:52
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter
  3. 3 III. Siciliana 02:16
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Siciliana
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter
  4. 4 IV. Gigue 02:14
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Gigue
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter
  5. 5 I. Concerto 02:42
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Concerto
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil, Bernhard Hofstötter
  6. 6 II. Largo 02:15
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Largo
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil, Bernhard Hofstötter
  7. 7 III. Allegro 02:01
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil, Bernhard Hofstötter
  8. 8 I. Fantasia 02:25
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. Fantasia
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bernhard Hofstötter
  9. 9 II. Allegro 02:38
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bernhard Hofstötter
  10. 10 III. Bouree 01:34
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. Bouree
    Duration
    01:34
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bernhard Hofstötter
  11. 11 IV. Aria 02:31
    Track
    11
    Title
    IV. Aria
    Duration
    02:31
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bernhard Hofstötter
  12. 12 V. Rondeau 02:11
    Track
    12
    Title
    V. Rondeau
    Duration
    02:11
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bernhard Hofstötter
  13. 13 VI. Tempo di menuet 02:19
    Track
    13
    Title
    VI. Tempo di menuet
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bernhard Hofstötter
  14. 14 I. Allemande 02:48
    Track
    14
    Title
    I. Allemande
    Duration
    02:48
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter
  15. 15 II. Courante 02:25
    Track
    15
    Title
    II. Courante
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter
  16. 16 III. March 01:48
    Track
    16
    Title
    III. March
    Duration
    01:48
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter
  17. 17 IV. Menuet avec trio 02:35
    Track
    17
    Title
    IV. Menuet avec trio
    Duration
    02:35
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter
  18. 18 V. Loure 01:58
    Track
    18
    Title
    V. Loure
    Duration
    01:58
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter
  19. 19 VI. Gigue 01:56
    Track
    19
    Title
    VI. Gigue
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter
  20. 20 I. Entrée 04:01
    Track
    20
    Title
    I. Entrée
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bernhard Hofstötter
  21. 21 II. Poco allegro 01:43
    Track
    21
    Title
    II. Poco allegro
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bernhard Hofstötter
  22. 22 III. Sarabande adagio 03:39
    Track
    22
    Title
    III. Sarabande adagio
    Duration
    03:39
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bernhard Hofstötter
  23. 23 IV. Menuet 01:51
    Track
    23
    Title
    IV. Menuet
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bernhard Hofstötter
  24. 24 I. Concerto 02:33
    Track
    24
    Title
    I. Concerto
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil, Bernhard Hofstötter
  25. 25 II. Molto adagio 02:27
    Track
    25
    Title
    II. Molto adagio
    Duration
    02:27
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil, Bernhard Hofstötter
  26. 26 III. Vivace 02:47
    Track
    26
    Title
    III. Vivace
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil, Bernhard Hofstötter
  27. 27 I. Allegro 02:31
    Track
    27
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    02:31
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter
  28. 28 II. Adagio 01:55
    Track
    28
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter
  29. 29 III. Presto 02:46
    Track
    29
    Title
    III. Presto
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    Performer
    Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter