In the Renaissance era, the lute was the most popular instrument in the Western world. It became the symbol of the magic and power of music. The lute was the instrument of kings and queens, playing the sublime music of great composers. The lute was heard in the theatre in the incidental music of Shakespeare's plays.Please enjoy J. S. Bach's Lute Suite in E Major BWV 1006a, performed by Evangelina Mascardi, playing the Baroque Lute:
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This is Lucile Boulanger’s first solo recital. The French gambist, universally praised for her natural and moving playing – BBC Music Magazine even described her as ‘the Jacqueline du Pré of the viola da gamba’ – juxtaposes Bach with Carl Friedrich Abel, a great master of the bass viol and a close friend of the Bach family [a good friend of Johann Christian Bach, J.S. Bach's eleventh son and eighteenth child0]. Although Johann Sebastian never wrote for solo viola da gamba, we know that he transcribed many of his works for other instruments. So Lucile Boulanger has chosen, for example, to transcribe three dances from the Sixth Suite, ‘because it sounds particularly good on the viol, being written for five-stringed cello (a step towards the six or seven strings of the viol?). It is in D, the viol key par excellence, and its style, already somewhat galant, is reminiscent of Abel. . . . This album gives me the opportunity to showcase the viol as both a melodic instrument – with the grain of the bow, the fragility of tone – and a polyphonic one.’
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0:00:00 J.S. Bach - Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air 0:04:17 Brahms - Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: III. Poco allegretto 0:10:17 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor “Pathétique”: II Agagio cantabile 0:15:04 Marcello - Oboe Concerto in D Minor: II. Adagio 0:18:56 Ravel - Piano Concerto in G Major: II. Adagio Assai 0:28:15 Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 “Pastoral”: II Andante molto mosso (Szene am Bach) 0:40:56 Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37: II. Largo 0:53:40 Brahms - Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77: II. Adagio 1:03:23 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 12 in C-Sharp Minor “Moonlight”: I. Adagio sostenuto 1:09:06 Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: I. Morning Mood 1:13:18 Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op.11: II. Romance. Larghetto 1:24:05 Fauré - Élégie, Op. 24 1:30:34 Mahler - Symphony No. 5: IV. Adagietto. sehr langsam 1:38:51 Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467: II. Andante "Elvira Madigan" 1:44:54 Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto 1:56:01 Mozart- Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A Major, K. 622: II. Adagio 2:03:21 Schubert - Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485: II. Andante con moto 2:14:10 Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major K. 488: II. Andante 2:20:30 Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings, Op. 48: III. Élégie. Larghetto elegiac
