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'Playing a six-course Renaissance-style lute, Henning draws a lucid, ringing sound and a gamut of timbres and tints to capture the variegated colours of each piece' This week's free download is Il est bel et bon (After Pierre Passereau) by Marco Dall'Aquila, performed by lutenist Lukas Henning. It was recorded on Glossa and was awarded five stars for performance and four for recording in the October issue of BBC Music Magazine. DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS: If you'd like to enjoy our free weekly download simply log in or sign up to our website. Once you've done that, return to this […]
2015-09-20 16:35:20
Is it not strange that sheep’s guts could hail souls out of men’s bodies? William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing, 2.3.57-58 musician angel by Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo), circa 1520 The first in a series of posts about the lute. I would wager that while many, perhaps even most people in our culture have heard of the instrument called the lute and may even know what it looks like, most have never heard one played – either live or on a recording. Yet this paragon of musical instruments, this “instrument of angels” was the most popular instrument in Europe for hundreds of years. Throughout the Renaissance, the lute occupied a position in European society analogous to that of the piano in the nineteenth century. Lute virtuosi played for royalty and popes and were famous throughout the continent, and a rising middle class created demand for […]
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