Hi Roman et al. On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Roman Turovsky wrote:
> I suspect it is a work Vladimir Vavilov, a Wandervogellaute player from > St.Petersburg (he died 15-20 years ago) with a lifelong predilection for > sautscheckerei. I like this new word "sautscheckerei". > He probably had a difficulty in finding the full text of "Ave" in the > atheist country, so he just went and set the first 2 words as a chaconne. > The first appearance of the piece seems to be on his LP from the mid-70's. Entertaining idea for the sparse wording of the piece. > Vavilov cannot be alled a forger, because he deliberately ignored anything > that would be a feature of the style of Caccini, or others to whom he ascribed > his compositions. This is also nice way if seeing it. Anyhow there seem to be common(?) believe that the piece is by Caccini? Anyhow one friend of mine who just reads the lutelist checked the paly list of Finnish Classic FM; There they told it was a recording by Andrea Bocelli, "Sacred Arias". The composer was named "Caccini/Mercurio". According to my friend this Mercurio has a homepage http://www.stevenmercurio.com/home.html Could it be that Vavilov has changed his name to to Steve Mercurio? Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
