Hola Manolo,
I'm curious about that french lutenist from the XVII, Mercure.
There is a beutiful sarabande in the MS Milleran, without name, and the
same is included in the Balcarres MS.
I know, the french CNRS published his work, but I don't have the book.
There are at least two Mercures, one, often callen "Mercure d'Orleans" from the
renaissance lute repertoire - you will find quite a lot pieces by him
in the Schele Ms., of which you own a beautiful facsimile, I believe ;-) ,
and then the later, baroque Mercure. According to Mary Burwell's tutor
he lived for a long time in England.
I'm going to send you some pages from the CNRS introduction.
A beautiful recording can be found on the website of Thomas Berghan
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/tom/
as
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/tom/sarabande_mercure.mp3
hasta luego
B.
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