A Lute by Sixtus Rauwolf: French and German Baroque Music

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The Rauwolf highlights the variegated colours of the music (far more than a modern lute could), and its lower courses have a plangent resonance…Given pride of place at the end of this parade... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Oct 2017
Catalogue No: BIS2265
Label: BIS
Length: 81 minutes

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Reusner, E: Padoana

Work length7:11

$1.50

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Du Fault: Lute Suite

Work length11:41

$6.00

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: May 2016
Recording Venue: Länna Church, Sweden

Prélude

Track length1:25

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Allemande

Track length2:22

$1.00

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Courante "La superbe"

Track length1:58

$1.00

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Courante

Track length1:23

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Sarabande

Track length2:18

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Gigue

Track length2:15

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Mouton, C: Prelude - La Promenade

Work length0:59

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Prélude "La promenade"

Track length0:59

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Mouton, C: Allemande, "La dialogue des graces sur Iris"

Work length2:10

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Allemande "La dialogue des grâces sur Iris"

Track length2:10

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Mouton, C: Canaries, "Le Mouton"

Work length1:22

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Mouton, C: Courante - La Changeante

Work length1:56

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Mouton, C: Gaillarde - La Bizarre

Work length1:06

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Mouton, C: Sarabande, "La Mallassis"

Work length2:06

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Sarabande "La malassis"

Track length2:06

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$1.75

Mouton, C: Menute, "La Ganbade"

Work length1:16

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Menuet "La ganbade"

Track length1:16

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Kellner, D: Campanella in D major

Work length2:39

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Campanella

Track length2:39

$1.00

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Kellner, D: Courante in D major

Work length2:18

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Courante

Track length2:18

$1.00

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Kellner, D: Sarabande - Double in D major

Work length2:33

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Sarabande

Track length2:33

$1.00

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Kellner, D: Aria in A major

Work length1:52

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Aria

Track length1:52

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Kellner, D: Giga in A major

Work length2:29

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Gigue

Track length2:29

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Kellner, D: Gavotte in D major

Work length1:12

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Gavotte

Track length1:12

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anon.: Lute Suite in F-Sharp Minor (attrib. to J. Pachelbel)

Work length12:55

$4.00

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: May 2016
Recording Venue: Länna Church, Sweden

Allemande "L'amant mal content"

Track length3:34

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Courante "L'amant soulage"

Track length2:43

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Sarabande "L'amant soupirant"

Track length3:52

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Gigue "Raillerie des amans"

Track length2:46

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Weiss, S: Lute Suite in A Major

Work length25:50

$8.00

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$14.00

Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: May 2016
Recording Venue: Länna Church, Sweden

Prélude

Track length0:43

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Allemande

Track length3:23

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Courante

Track length2:55

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Bourrée

Track length2:55

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Sarabande

Track length5:17

$1.00

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$1.75

Menuet

Track length1:35

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Gigue

Track length3:29

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Ciacona

Track length5:33

$1.00

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The lute by Sixtus Rauwolf heard on this recording was probably built in the last decade of the sixteenth century. Some hundred years later, in 1715, it was converted to suit the musical tastes and demands of the baroque period. For this disc, Jakob Lindberg has chosen works that could have formed part of the repertory of the presumably German owner of the instrument at around the time of its final conversion.

For German lutenists from about the middle of the seventeenth century, it was France that provided the aesthetic and musical model, and towards the end of the century, when the lute rather suddenly and inexplicably dropped out of fashion in Paris certain French luthistes travelled abroad and met with great success in German-speaking lands. With them, they took their music and special traditions of lute-playing, evidence of which can be seen in the music of several of the German composers included here.

The disc closes with a suite of pieces by Silvius Leopold Weiss, the most famous lutenist of the baroque era. Weiss, Lindberg and the Rauwolf lute first crossed paths in 2006 on a highly acclaimed all-Weiss disc (BIS-1524): ‘Too good to be true’ was the verdict in International Record Review while the reviewer in Goldberg Magazine wrote ‘As an evocation of the lute's magical qualities, this deserves to achieve cult status.’ Hide

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March 2018

The Rauwolf highlights the variegated colours of the music (far more than a modern lute could), and its lower courses have a plangent resonance…Given pride of place at the end of this parade is Silvius Leopold Weiss, whose music Bach admired and arranged. Lindberg luxuriates in Weiss’s rich and varied style…The recording – like the instrument itself – is velvety and intimate.

January 2018

He is stately and expressive in Reusner’s Padoana while seizing upon the extravagant trills and strums evoked by the Dufault and the elegant deportment of the Mouton. Lindberg similarly relishes the toccata-like textures, bittersweet harmonies and melodic attractiveness of Kellner.

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