Matthew Wadsworth's latest CD included a new piece for theorbo by
Stephen Goss that I think is worth mentioning, and I believe they have
plans to continue that collaboration
On 21 Dec 2017 23:16, "David van Ooijen" <[1]davidvanooi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Like most (pro) lute players, I play, record and arrange my share
of
contemporary music, have some written for me even, but it's far
outnumbered by early music.
On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 at 00:12, Daniel Shoskes
<[1][2]kidneykut...@gmail.com> wrote:
I highly recommend it. I commissioned a work from Ronn
McFarlane and
I think it's one of his most beautiful:
[2][3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgAAyMtgtE
<[3][4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgAAyMtgtE>
Ronn playing it live: [4][5]https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Cz3j5muuVKc
<[5][6]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3j5muuVKc>
Recording:
[6][7]https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/passacaglia/
878859427?i=8788594
69
<[7][8]https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/passacaglia/
878859427?i=878859
469>
Also commissioned a version of Adon Olam from Rene Schiffer
that is
in the form of a passacaglia with a theorbo part.
Let's keep them gainfully employed!
Danny
> On Dec 21, 2017, at 5:38 PM, Jacob Johnson
<[8][9]tmrguitar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think that's entirely accurate. Ronn McFarlane
plays
his own
> compositions, Jakob Lindberg performs the Britten
Nocturnal (I
know,
> it's not that new, and it's not really for lute, but IMO
it
kinda
> counts), Chris Wilke recorded a whole cd of Roman
Turovsky's
new works
> for baroque lute, I saw Elizabeth Kenny perform TWO
recent
theorbo
> commissions at the LuteFestWest, and there's certainly
more
examples I
> just can't think of at the moment.
> As soon as I can afford to do so, I intend to commission
some
works for
> myself to play.
>
> Jacob Johnson
>
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> [1][9][10]www.johnsonguitarstudio.com
> [11]469.237.0625.
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Christopher Stetson
> <[2][10][12]christophertstet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all.
> An interesting question, Peter, thanks for bringing
it up.
To
> answer
> honestly and personally, I'm not especially
interested in
new
> music,
> per se, for any of the instruments I play (mainly
lute,
guitar,
> mandolin, but some others too). I couldn't
really say
why,
> except
> that the music I've looked at from the last 30 years
tends, and I
> mean
> tends, to be difficult and not especially tuneful to
my
ear.
> There
> are exceptions, of course, and I play some of those,
though
> mostly on
> guitar. I'm not a professional, so I tend to be
fairly
> conservstive
> in the music I choose to spend time seeking out and
playing. I
> also
> don't play many of the old compositions that fit the
above
> criteria.
> I fully realize. however, that one person's
difficult
is
> another
> person's interesting, and I'm really glad that
people are
writing
> new
> music for lute.
> Best to all, and keep playing,
> Chris.
>
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Peter Martin
> <[1][3][11][13]peter.l...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I recently bought a Wigmore Hall Live CD of a
2013
concert by
> countertenor Iestyn Davies and lutenist Thomas
Dunford.
It
> included
> the world premiere performance of a substantial
piece
by Nico
> Muhly
> called Old Bones. Up to now, I'd never
heard of
it, which
> surprised
> me because Muhly is a very successful young
American
composer.
> His
> new opera Marnie has just premiered at English
National
Opera,
> and his
> previous opera Two Boys was given at ENO and at
the Met
in New
> York.
> The score of Old Bones is available from Music
Sales.
Yet I
> can't see
> that the lute world has paid the slightest
attention to
it.
> Which sets me wondering, not about Muhly as such,
but
about new
> music
> generally. With the honourable exception of
Jacob
> Heringman,
> scarcely
> anyone plays it. Any thoughts on why this
is?
Are we
> simply
> not
> interested in new music?
> Peter
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> 4. [18][20]http://www.cs.dartmouth.
edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
> 5. mailto:[19][21]peter.l...@gmail.com
> 6. [20][22]http://www.cs.dartmouth.
edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
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2. [26]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgAAyMtgtE
3. [27]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgAAyMtgtE
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878859469
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878859469
8. mailto:[32]tmrguitar...@gmail.com
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11. mailto:[35]peter.l...@gmail.com
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