Where are you folks hearing these samples? Available on the net? You all bought the CD?
On Jun 6, 2010, at 4:14 AM, Stuart Walsh wrote: Monica Hall wrote: Don't know whether the rest of you have already noticed this but Carpe Diem have recently released a beautiful recording of music from Corbetta's 1671 Guitarre royale played by Rosario Conte - the best recording available now Antonio Ligios recording is no longer available. For some reason the first suite reminds me of a very old recording of Schaffer's on Baroque lute of a suite in G minor by Bittner. Someone said the recording is 'close' and you can hear fingers on strings - other than playing the notes! - and indeed the man himself breathing. (My wife thinks he looks like the actor, Patrick Stewart). He surely gets a very nice sound from the guitar and his brushing of chords is very delicate (some players are rather raspy) and lots of ornaments. The Prelude of this first suite is quite slow with familiar little phrases but Rosario gives his all. The Allemande has a little percussive sound at the beginning which happens at the repeat? Seems very well played to me. The Courante sounds fine to me too but I agree with others that the Sarabande is too slow. The Baroque lute can be played super slow (as it were) but I'm not sure this very slow tempo suits the guitar, or even this particular sarabande. A fine gigue (which is reminiscent of something else) and a swingless Passacaille to end. Stuart Monica -- To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan [2]edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp [3]http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 2. mailto:edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp 3. http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/