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Bernhard Hofstotter, Ennemond Gaultier, Germain Pinel - Album for the Lute - Music from the former library of Dr. Werner Wolffheim / Album für die Laute - Musik aus der ehem. Bibliothek von Dr. Werner Wolffheim (2023)

Bernhard Hofstotter, Ennemond Gaultier, Germain Pinel - Album for the Lute - Music from the former library of Dr. Werner Wolffheim / Album für die Laute - Musik aus der ehem. Bibliothek von Dr. Werner Wolffheim (2023)
  • Title: Album for the Lute - Music from the former library of Dr. Werner Wolffheim / Album für die Laute - Musik aus der ehem. Bibliothek von Dr. Werner Wolffheim
  • Year Of Release: 2023
  • Label: TYXart
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
  • Total Time: 01:12:50
  • Total Size: 286 mb
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Tracklist

01. (without title) – La Double – 2. Double
02. Gavotte – La Double
03. Sarabande – La Double
04. Sonata
05. Sarabande
06. Gigue – La Double
07. Chaconne in A Minor
08. Allemande – Double de la Precedente
09. Courante – La Double
10. (without title)
11. Sarabande – La Double
12. (without title)
13. Sarabande espagnole – d’une autre maniere – La Double
14. Ciaccona in A Major
15. Air – La Double
16. Sarabande – La Double
17. Aria, der Bettelmann genandt – La Double
18. Adieu de sa maitresse – La Double – Autrement
19. Gigue – La Double – La Double allegro – La Double
20. Ciacona

Up until a certain point in time between the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods, the bulk of music one could perform or hear was vocal music. From plainchant, to liturgical psalms, to the most sublime polyphonic Masses of the high Renaissance, composers and performers did not yet have a solo instrument capable of producing multiple lines or voices simultaneously. The lute already existed, but based on the Arabian oud, its first examples only had four strings, which eventually became pairs (courses), then five and six courses, single bass strings were added, music notation was set down and by the early 17th century the instrument came into its own and was extremely popular until it was eclipsed by keyboard instruments. Predominant composers like Byrd, Dowland, Bach, etc... composed pieces for the lute.

In 1928/29, Dr. Werner Wolffheim put his legendary music collection up for auction in Berlin. Among its countless treasures are original editions of J.S. Bach's "The Art of the Fugue" and "Musical Offering" as well as an "Album for the Lute", an exquisite collection of music for the 11-course baroque lute. This manuscript, now kept in Melbourne, contains almost exclusively unique pieces, which were recorded here for the first time {Booklet Notes}.

What makes this world premiere recording unique is not only the inclusion of pieces by obscure composers like Achaz Casimir Hültz (1658-1723), Esaias Reusner the Younger (1636-1679) and Jean Berdolde Bernard Bleystein de Prague (no dates), but also the many pieces by the ever prolific Anonymous as well. None of these may project the expressive characteristics of say the music of John Dowland, since most seem to have been written for pedagogical purposes. Nonetheless, Austrian lutenist Bernhard Hofstötter brings out all of the individually unique stylings and technical aspects of these pieces. Some, like the Anonymous Chaconne in A Minor or the Sarabande espagnole by Ennemond Gaultier (1575-1651) are reminiscent of the masters.

And as always with recordings from the TYXart label, the audio quality is accurately natural and sits the listener at a realistic distance from the player. The instrument used is a 2019, 11-course Laux Maler based lute by Martin Hurttig.



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