Fasch is a fairly well known composer who wrote works in a variety of
forms and instrumentation.
His concerto in Dm is in the large Dresden collection (Mus.Ms.
2423.v.1) scored in four parts with lute: two violins, viola, Lluto,
cembalo/basso (unfigured). Note that the lute is written in the C1
clef but generally with no bass - it can be supposed that the
cembalo/basso line was used with the staff liuto line to create a
complete working lute part.
Fasch also wrote parts for other plucked instruments in his works:
including a concerto requiring two gallichons. And, indeed, the Dresden
'liuto' concerto discussed here also fits pretty well on the D
mandora/gallichon - and I've performed it thus...............
Other concertos with four part strings of note from this period include
those by Krebs and Kohaut.
Hopkinson Smith made a decent CD including some of these concertos
(with the Fasch) in 1999: Auvidis Astree France E 8641. I believe
Ruggero Chiesa made a modern staff transcription of the work in the
1970s.
MH
--- On Thu, 16/8/12, Roland Hayes <rha...@legalaidbuffalo.org> wrote:
From: Roland Hayes <rha...@legalaidbuffalo.org>
Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Fasch concerto
To: "baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu" <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Thursday, 16 August, 2012, 16:58
On the radio I heard a very nice performance of a lute concerto by
Fasch (?) described as a Dresden composer. Is this concerto in
print
anywhere, or facsimile? No mention of the lutenist, BTW. r
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