Siena or Capirola? Casteliano's Diversi Autori or a Francesco
facsimile? Paladino or Il Fronimo? An earlier Phalese or an
Adriaenssen? The Dowland, de Rippe or Francesco anthologies? Marsh or
Pickering? The big Besard or the Varietie? LoST or the Holmes books?
Mary Anne or Ginger?
There's lot's to be learned from the non-first choices: eg.
Wickhambrook. Short, sweet, many top shelf John Johnson pieces though
hardly a desert island choice for length or number of composers
represented (but certainly a bargain at the UK L.S.). My advice: for
every big name, take a chance on an obscure one.
It's like "How do you stop eating a bag of corn chips?". Just finish
the whole bag and the problem is solved. You don't put a lot of effort
into which one to start with, do you? Believe me, begin anywhere and
in 30 years you'll chuckle over this question, too.
Sean
On Oct 18, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Daniel Winheld wrote:
This depends entirely on what kind of music you like.
..and when in the lute player's life the question is asked. Right
now I'm in the worst throes of a Weiss relapse that I've ever
experienced. The London and Dresden Mss. (unpublications, by
definition) are the most must haves. If my temperature returns to
normal then my homemade cut & paste tab only performing versions of
Ness' Francesco, CNRS' da Rippe, Poulton's Dowland and of course the
LoST. Also Fuenllana (but I hate the "edition" I'm stuck with,
J.P.Paladin, and Julien Belin. Dan
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