Vinicius Perez - The Galant Lute (2015)

Tracklist

01. Keyboard Sonata No. 6 in C Major, Hob. XVI:10 "Divertimento" (Arr. for Lute): I. Moderato
02. Keyboard Sonata No. 6 in C Major, Hob. XVI:10 "Divertimento" (Arr. for Lute): II. Menuetto
03. Keyboard Sonata No. 6 in C Major, Hob. XVI:10 "Divertimento" (Arr. for Lute): III. Final
04. Lute Sonata in D Major: I. Adagio
05. Lute Sonata in D Major: II. Allegro
06. Lute Sonata in D Major: III. Menuetto
07. Divertimento for 3 Basset Horns in B-Flat Major, K. Anh. 229 No. 2 (Arr. for Lute): I. Allegro
08. Divertimento for 3 Basset Horns in B-Flat Major, K. Anh. 229 No. 2 (Arr. for Lute): II. Menuetto
09. Divertimento for 3 Basset Horns in B-Flat Major, K. Anh. 229 No. 2 (Arr. for Lute): III. Larghetto
10. Divertimento for 3 Basset Horns in B-Flat Major, K. Anh. 229 No. 2 (Arr. for Lute): IV. Menuetto
11. Divertimento for 3 Basset Horns in B-Flat Major, K. Anh. 229 No. 2 (Arr. for Lute): V. Rondo
12. Variations in F Major on a Theme from Mozart's Don Giovanni

By the third decade of the nineteenth century, the lute was little but a memory, a symbol of past ages in the Romantic imagination, summoning up an era of chivalry and courtly love, usually to be found in paintings in the hands of a lover beneath the window of his mistress while he improvises a serenade. But far from it! The lute shaped, undergoing evolutionary changes in size and form, through a span of some three hundred years of musical history, and has left a vast surviving repertory of notated music – up to the end of the eighteenth century. The Brazilian Vinícius Perez devotes himself to that wonderful instrument with its intimate sound and recorded on 'The Galant Lute' works from the eighteenth century. 'Galant Music' was a term frequently used throughout the eighteenth century and covers the works commissioned by noble men and women, with the purpose of education, amusement and entertainment.

Using the quiet and secluded location of a Swiss monastery, Vinícius recorded galant works by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as well as lesser-known masters as Karl Kohaut and Christian Gottlieb Scheidler. Works that were partly composed for the Lute, partly arranged by Vinícius Perez himself.

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