Various Artists: 2 Lutes with Grace - COMPACT DISCS

Various Artists: 2 Lutes with Grace - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

2 Lutes with Grace

Artist:

Various Artists

Label:

Naxos

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

747313385478

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2020-03-13

Number of Discs:

1

The plectrum lute duo was one of the most popular ensembles for professional instrumentalists in late 15th-century Western Europe. This recording presents for the first time the bulk of a surviving repertoire that can arguably be considered for the lute duo, performed on two equal plectrum lutes or with a combination of lute and gittern- a smaller member of the lute family. The album, inspired by the Ferrarese virtuoso Pietrobono dal Chitarino (c. 1417-1497), acclaimed in his lifetime as 'the foremost lutenist in the world,' includes the earliest printed lute duos by Francesco Spinacino and Joan Ambrosio Dalza and the two-voice instrumental works by Johannes Tinctoris. The often highly ornamented instrumental duos are mostly reworkings of songs, some of which are given here in a performance with the singer Grace Newcombe to provide the context for the lute arrangements that follow.

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