That may require setting limits to the violinist's ego, a notoriously impossible task. RT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Wilke" <chriswi...@yahoo.com>
To: <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 9:05 AM Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Wenzel von Radolt Ed, --- On Sun, 11/7/10, Edward Martin <e...@gamutstrings.com> wrote:
Thanks for your note. I agree with all stated, in that it is good music, although not deep. Yes, the violin is a little bit too strong, for my taste.
I should have mentioned that the music is well played by all. It is the first violin that's the offender: the line just isn't that interesting to sustain being heard that forward in the mix. This may have been the engineer's doing. It was, however, also common practice for the bowed strings to use mutes when playing with lutes and I think this recording would have benefited from doing so. Gunar Letzbor mentions that playing with lutes was a new experience for the group, so my hats off to them for tackling this music in the first place and doing such a good job of it.
Chris
The liner notes reveal some interesting facts... apparently, the parts were scattered in various areas, making great difficulty in assembling the concertos. All parts were then together, with the exception of the first violin part in the concertos. One of the lutenists in the project, Hubert Hoffman, started writing the missing violin parts, and after near completion of the work, somebody found it the missing part!! Yesterday I had a conversation with an old friend, Doug Towne. In discussing this, he laughed, stating, "They should have asked me... I've had it since the late 70's". The lutenists involved in the recording are Hubert Hoffman, Sven Schwannberger, and Klaus Kob. I have never heard of any of these performers, but they certainly performed these works well. ed At 08:41 AM 11/7/2010, Christopher Wilke wrote: >Bernd, > > Thanks for the link. And thanks very much to Martyn for > writing the article. Very interesting and informative stuff. I > wonder why Radolt has received so little attention. > > On one point, though, I can't agree with Martyn: von Radolt's > music is not of "negligible musical worth." I won't argue that it > is the deepest stuff, but it is pleasant to listen to and there are > some surprises to keep you interested. Overall, I would recommend > the recording that Ed mentioned by Ars Antiqua Austria although I > find the violin to be a bit too forward in the recorded mix. They > definitely did not follow Radolt's explicit instruction that "the > soprano part that is the small lute must at all times be set > strongly" and tripled in volume in relation to the other parts. (I > suppose they were after an "overall composite sound.") > > Actually, I know very little about this recording. I bought it > on iTunes about a year ago and there is no booklet (shame on > them!). I could hear that there was more than one lute on there, > but the performers' names are not even listed online. How hard is > it to include a digital booklet, people? > >Chris > > > >Christopher Wilke >Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer >www.christopherwilke.com > > >--- On Sun, 11/7/10, Bernd Haegemann <b...@symbol4.de> wrote: > > > From: Bernd Haegemann <b...@symbol4.de> > > Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Wenzel von Radolt > > To: baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu, "Edward Martin" > <e...@gamutstrings.com>, "Martyn Hodgson" <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> > > Date: Sunday, November 7, 2010, 4:40 AM > > > > > See my paper in FoMRHI Quarterly No > > 44 July 1986 C-737 : 'Von Radolt's > > > instructions to lute players (Wien > > 1701)' > > > > > > This gives a translation of the > > instructions and a commentary on the > > > lute sizes/pitches required. > > > > > > > > > > see > > > > http://www.fomrhi.org/uploads/bulletins/Fomrhi-044.pdf > > > > > > B > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: e...@gamutstrings.com voice: (218) 728-1202 http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1660298871&ref=name http://www.myspace.com/edslute
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