I had experience with that music. I've recorded 1st and 2nd with organ, played it in concerts with harpsichord and another archlute. I also did some guitar solo and guitar duo arrangements of several sonatas for Anthony Hart and played some of them on XIX c. guitar. I read through more or less all 24 lute sonatas. Some of them are very interesting. In the average the music is of interesting transitional style and good quality. There are some signs of old style, like 2-part form close to Scarlatti Sonatas or Bach-Sons pieces. The manner of working with material is mostly old-fashioned for 70s' when Haydn and Mozart were flourished, but the musical material itself sounds more close to those vienna classics with some interesting haromies of very 'fresh' style linked to me with Mozart or even Schubert (f-minor sonata particulary, find the link below). After playing with harpsichord and archlute I came to conclusion, that texture is missing in this music. There is a lot of fast contrasts in material which must be supported with different types of texture in accompaniment: choral chords in 1st bar, arpeggios in the 2nd and counterpoint in 3rd... Using similar kind of melodies and harmonies Mozart wrote such a texture contrasts out carefully in his sonatas. Reggio uses outdated manner of spelling and leave musicians to improvise it. (So, the organ is not the best instrument for accompaniment here and my first recordings are not satisfying, I'm still thinking of re-recording this music with new ideas) There are lots of question for me regarding this music. The first is what instrument Reggio called lute? It's written in treble clef and in high tessitura. Should it sound octave lower, like classical guitar does? In this case some places occurs where lower note in the lute part are lower than bass part. May be it's some little instrument with high tunings? - So, this places with doubtful voice leading will be solved, but may be this doubtful voice leading is just composer's error? What kind of tuning is involved? May be different tunings? Some chords written out very comfortable for classical guitar tuning (but also for archlute in A), some are written way to low even for archlute in G. There is a sonatas in terrible keys for lute... That's all are very interesting and I highly recommend to play Reggio. He is worth of it. So here are my recordings: F-minor [1]https://youtu.be/efGYZtcx04Y C-major [2]https://youtu.be/AI5Yjel4V7c Cheers, Konstantin
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