Viennese Lute Concertos
Ars Antiqua Austria / Gunar Letzbor
- Label
- Challenge Classics
- Catalogusnummer
- CC 72291
- EAN / barcode
- 0608917229127
- Verschijningsdatum
- 31 maart 2008
Wenzel Ludwig Edler von Radolt’s collection of lute music entitled ”To my most true and confiding friend”, inclined both to the merry and to the sad humours, herewith in the company of other faithful vassals of our innermost sensibility’ was printed in 1701 in Vienna by J(oh)ann Michael Nestler and bears a dedication to the then‚ Roman King’ Josef I. Radolt was of Austro-Italian aristocratic descent. He was born and died in Vienna. According to his own account, he spent his life ”so allured by the beguiling countenance of most pleasurable music, as to dedicate the course of my life to her“. The ‘Most true and confiding friend’ is the only work of Radolt that survives today. Unusual in the part books are Radolt’s meticulous fingerings for the right hand (!) that give us a precise insight into the style of lute playing current in the imperial city of the period. This extensive collection of 12 so-called ‘Concerti’ contains much that is remarkable about the Viennese Lute Concerto – a popular genre of the day comprising violins, lute and bass. The variety of scoring is striking: from four-part string writing with three obligato lutes of various sizes, to the relatively intimate combination of single violin, obligato viola da gamba (viol), lute and bass. In another concerto the composer suggests the addition of a wind instrument. The codex represents the most extensive source of a neglected genre, that once enjoyed great popularity in the German speaking countries – including composers such as Esajas Reussner.
Tracklist
- 01 Concerto e minor (transponiert): I. Ouverture 02:37
- 02 Concerto e minor (transponiert): II. Allemande 01:12
- 03 Concerto e minor (transponiert): III. Courente 01:16
- 04 Concerto e minor (transponiert): IV. Sarabande 02:16
- 05 Concerto e minor (transponiert): V. Menuette 00:51
- 06 Concerto e minor (transponiert): VI. Gigue 01:18
- 07 Concerto e minor (transponiert): VII. Menuette 00:57
- 08 Concerto e minor (transponiert): VIII. Bourée 00:43
- 09 Concerto e minor (transponiert): IX. Retirada 03:23
- 10 Aria in C Major: I. Aria 01:06
- 11 Aria in C Major: II. Allemande 00:54
- 12 Aria in C Major: III. Courente 01:03
- 13 Aria in C Major: IV. Sarabande 00:58
- 14 Aria in C Major: V. Gavotte 01:05
- 15 Aria in C Major: VI. Bourée 01:06
- 16 Aria in C Major: VII. Menuette 01:07
- 17 Aria in C Major: VIII. Gigue 01:15
- 18 Toccata in F Major 07:50
- 19 Concerto in F Major: I. Ouverture 04:15
- 20 Concerto in F Major: II. Aria / Pastorale 01:25
- 21 Concerto in F Major: III. La Querelle des Amantes 01:20
- 22 Concerto in F Major: IV. Menuette en canon 00:40
- 23 Concerto in F Major: V. Capricio en canon 01:00
- 24 Concerto in F Major: VI. Gigue 01:05
- 25 Concerto in F Major: VII. Menuette 01:18
- 26 Concerto in G Major: I. Allemande et Gigue 03:17
- 27 Concerto in G Major: II. Courente et Menuette 02:08
- 28 Concerto in G Major: III. Sarabande et Aria 03:02
- 29 Concerto in G Major: IV. Gavotte et Bourée 01:27
- 30 Symphonia in G Minor 06:48
- 31 Concerto in C Minor: I. Ouverture 04:10
- 32 Concerto in C Minor: II. Alemande 02:40
- 33 Concerto in C Minor: III. Courente 01:34
- 34 Concerto in C Minor: IV. Sarabande 02:17
- 35 Concerto in C Minor: V. Menuette 00:38
- 36 Concerto in C Minor: VI. Gavotte 00:47
- 37 Concerto in C Minor: VII. Menuette 01:00
- 38 Concerto in C Minor: VIII. Gigue 01:29
- 39 Concerto in C Minor: IX. Bourée 00:40
- 40 Concerto in C Minor: X. Retirada 03:59
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