After being the king of court instruments in the seventeenth century, a symbol of refined entertainment, the lute was gradually abandoned in the following century.
A small group of virtuosos and composers nevertheless refused to accept this predicted decline: these musicians moved the epicentre of its influence to the courts of Vienna, Bayreuth and Dresden, adapting the codes and forms of the galant style to the lute, which for the first time integrated the orchestra in its own right.
Miguel Rincón and Il Pomo d’Oro bring together concertos by Kohaut, Fasch and Kleinknecht (world premiere), and a Trio by Hagen, also recorded here for the first time.
These splendid, inventive and virtuoso works reveal the richness of timbre and expression of an instrument that, at the crossroads of the Baroque, the Sturm und Drang and the galant style, was in its last throes.
01. Concerto for Lute in F Major I. Allegro.flac
02. Concerto for Lute in F Major II. Adagio.flac
03. Concerto for Lute in F Major III. Tempo di minuetto.flac
04. Trio in E-Flat Major I. Allegro.flac
05. Trio in E-Flat Major II. Andantino.flac
06. Trio in E-Flat Major III. Allegretto ma grazioso.flac
07. Concerto for Lute in C Major I. Allegro con brio.flac
08. Concerto for Lute in C Major II. Andante di molto.flac
09. Concerto for Lute in C Major III. Tantino allegro e grazioso.flac
10. Concerto for Lute in D Minor I. Allegro.flac
11. Concerto for Lute in D Minor II. Andante.flac
12. Concerto for Lute in D Minor III. Un poco allegro.flac
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