>> What will it take for lutenists to take contemporary music for their >> instrument seriously, I wonder: Should it come from the top - our virtuoso >> artists, like Ron McFarlane, or from the base? Should it come at all? >> Who will be our Segovia? >> Alain > We have 3 world class virtuosos, Barto, Egüez and Djananovic-Karamazov. > Barto trew his lot with Weiss, Egüez with Bach. D-K has recently recorded a > superb archlute version of Britten's "Nocturnal". Maybe he would, > eventually.... > RT To which we should add Abramovich of the vihuela. But the idea of vihuela as a vehicle of contemporary music is just preposterous. RT
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