At 01:48 PM 4/10/2007, Are Vidar Boye Hansen wrote: >Rolf Lislevand has just recorded Vivaldi's mandolin concertos on a soprano >lute. The reason I have heard for this is that he could not find a baroque >mandolin and meant that the musical result would not be that different.
That's an odd statement. Modern reproductions are common and period 5- to 6-course mandolini, as required by the Vivaldi, outnumber lutes in collections. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
