Tag early music

Rercercata Bella Collaboration with Elizabeth Pallett

Rercercata Bella, an anonymous Renaissance lute work from the Siena Lute Book. Performance, sheet music, lesson, and discussion for classical guitar or lute. This is a collaboration with Elizabeth Pallett via Luteweb on YouTube (go subscribe) and Luteweb.com. I had…

Baroque Guitar Works on a Saers Guitar A90

Baroque guitar works performed on a Saers Guitar A90. Here I’m performing two Baroque guitar works to get a bit more out of the Saer guitar that I recently reviewed. The first work is a beautiful little Aria by Italian…

Why do we need scholarly editions of music?

Why do we need scholarly editions of music? Here is an excellent video on the importance of creating music editions with a scholarly or inquisitive mind. This is outrageously relevant to lute and early guitar scores that include a variety…

Abramovich and Kiehr Perform Por ásperos caminos by Mudarra

Ariel Abramovich (vihuela de mano) and María Cristina Kiehr (soprano) perform Por ásperos caminos (Soneto VI de Garcilaso de la Vega) from Tres libros de música en cifra para vihuela (Sevilla, 1546) by Alonso Mudarra (c.1510-1580). This comes via Ariel Abramovich’s excellent YouTube channel. Beautiful performance,…

Jonatan Bougt Theorbo Recital

Jonatan Bougt Theorbo Recital

Swedish guitarist and theorbist Jonatan Bougt gives a full theorbo recital in London at the Dutch Church. This comes via The Lute Society and their YouTube channel. I’m really enjoying these concerts from the Lute Society that include such great repertoire, performances, and the performer…

Michal Gondko Lute Recital

A one hour Lute Society Main Recital by lutenist Michal Gondko held in London, The Dutch Church. A full recital of Polonica Lute Music from around 1600. This comes via The Lute Society and their YouTube channel. Wonderful performance and…

Michael Butten Plays Narváez

Michael Butten performs three works by Luys de Narváez (fl. 1526-1549) on classical guitar. This comes via the Omni Foundation for Performing Arts and their great Youtube channel. Great repertoire and performance by Butten, he explains his arrangement of the Glorioso in the Omni description, “I…

Yair Avidor Plays Sarabande and Double by François Dufault

Yair Avidor performs Sarabande and Double by French lutenist François Dufault (c.1604-1672) on an 11-course lute by Paul Thomson. This comes via his great YouTube channel. Dufault was a student of Denis Gaultier (c.1597-1672), but very little is known about his life. There are only a…

Stephen Stubbs Plays Sanz and Murcia on Baroque Guitar

Stephen Stubbs (Baroque guitar) performs Pavanas by Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710) and Fandango by Santiago de Murcia (1682-1739) with Maxine Eilander (harp). This comes via the Pacific MusicWorks on their YouTube. If you’d like to play some Sanz I have an extensive collection of his works on the…

Baroque Arias from Europe

Baroque Arias From Europe

Baroque Arias From Europe Thalia Moutopoulou (Soprano), Michel Cardin (Theorbo), Chrysostomos Kalogridakis (Tenor, Guitar) Listen or buy via Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and more. Lovely to hear this new album filled with early music by Caccini, Bottrigari, Frescobaldi, Cavalli, Monteverdi, Purcell,…

Sebastián Montes Plays Weiss

Sebastián Montes performs Allemande and Courante from Sonata in A major by Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1686–1750) on classical guitar. This comes via his Duo KM on YouTube channel. Always a pleasure to hear Weiss who is one my favourite lute…

Marionas by Gaspar Sanz

Marionas by Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710). PDF sheet music for classical guitar with video performance and lesson. This comes from my Gaspar Sanz Collection Volume 2, a collection of six works that come with both a notation edition with left hand fingering and…