I've had the chance to listen to Oliver playing Bach (and some Weiss, the Tombeau for Losy) on a real lute - built on historical principles back in 99 I think (lute days in Nuernberg). He is a good player - a bit to esoteric (?) for my taste but he played well with a good sense for tone and structure. He is now one of the main advertizing figures for the liuto forte - I really regret this because I am a great fan of the typical sound of the historic lute and loosing a good player is in a small comunity like ours always a loss.
At the lute days in Basel there were performances on the liuto forte with modern music (and recently in Salzburg there was a Vivaldi, Zamboni performance on it). This was not my taste but I think Andr´e (Burguete) is doing well to start an edition with modern music for the liuto forte. I don't know if there is anything already published. I wonder who needs a newly developed instrument in retrospective times like ours. The development of this instrument comes 150 years too late (Andr´e blames Faustino Weiss - his role would have been to develop the lute. A nice thought but as history shows he didn't and in my opinion now it's to late. The classical romantic orchestra is set up and modern music doesn't play the role which would lead to a change of this settings) Thomas Am Mit, 2003-11-05 um 17.05 schrieb Roman Turovsky: > > That's a newly developed instrument. Would be very interesting if there > > would be a higher interest in new music. For early musicians it should > > be avoided like the devil IMHO. > I think Holzenburg's Bach set was recorded on one, although he tastefully > minimized the differences. > RT > > > It's single strung, formed similar to a lute, has machine heads instead > > of pegs and developed to produce rather "Grundtöne" (basic tones?) than > > "Obertöne" (resonances?) and esp. to be louder than a lute or guitar. > > > > see http://www.liutoforte.com/ > > > > The instruemnts are very well build and sound quite good but not like a > > lute - maybe it can be described it would sound like a better guitar - > > closer to a parlour guitar than to a modern classical guitar. > > > > Best wishes > > Thomas > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Thomas Schall > > Niederhofheimer Weg 3 > > D-65843 Sulzbach > > 06196/74519 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss > > > > -- -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss --
