Weiss & Hasse: Lute Sonatas

[The Weiss] is music with the grandeur and expressiveness of Bach but with its idiomatically rendered textures more svelte and easy on the ear than the often rather keyboardy lute compositions... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 More…

Release Date: 25th May 2018
Catalogue No: ADX13713
Label: Audax
Length: 57 minutes

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Hasse, J A: Sonata No. 4

Work length8:19

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I. Allegretto

Track length3:24

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II. Allegro

Track length4:55

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Weiss, S: Sonata in D minor, WeissSW 35

Work length28:13

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I. Allemande. Adagio

Track length5:11

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II. Courante

Track length6:28

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III. Paysanne

Track length3:55

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IV. Sarabande. Adagio

Track length4:01

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V. Menuet

Track length3:52

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VI. Allegro

Track length4:46

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Weiss, S: Prelude in C minor

Work length2:05

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Hasse, J A: Sonata in E flat major

Work length12:09

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I. Allegro

Track length5:33

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II. Moderato

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III. Presto

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Weiss, S: Passacaglia in D major

Work length6:25

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Jadran Duncumb won the String Category of the "BBC Young Musician of the Year" as a guitar player and went on to study at the Royal College of Music. This recording from the Audax label features the Lute Sonatas from Weiss and Hasse. Dresden's orchestra in the first half of the 18th century shone above all the other European orchestras, and two of its brightest stars were Silvius Leopold Weiss and Johann Adolph Hasse. Although regarded as highly as Bach, Handel, Telemann and indeed Hasse during his lifetime and in the years after his death, later Weiss's reputation suffered due to the fact he dedicated his life to an instrument that soon became obsolete. Only since the tentative revival of the German baroque-lute in the latter part of the last century has it again been possible to appreciate his genius. This CD combines his astonishing and rarely-played late D-minor Sonata with two inventive and unheard Sonatas by Hasse, adapted by an unnamed lutenist and surviving now in a manuscript in Leipzig. Despite being written within a few years of each other by two musicians who worked together regularly and must have been close judging by Weiss naming his son after his colleague, their respective sonatas are very different in style. Jadran Duncumb not only won the String Category of the "BBC Young Musician of the Year" but also won 1st prize at the "Maurizio Pratola" lute competition in L'Aquila, Italy. He regularly plays with the Ensemble Diderot. * World premiere recordings

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September 2018

[The Weiss] is music with the grandeur and expressiveness of Bach but with its idiomatically rendered textures more svelte and easy on the ear than the often rather keyboardy lute compositions we have from Bach. But this is good music in its own right…All of these pieces Duncumb presents with clean but deep and singing tone, faultless balancing of voices, sound architectural sense and delicate but nicely judged dynamic shading.

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