Joachim Held - Held, Joachim: Baroque Lute Music From the Lands of the Habsburgs (2006)

Tracklist

01. Armonico Tributo: Sonata for Strings and Basso Continuo No. 5 In G Major (arr. F. Fischer): Sonata No. 5 for Strings, "Passacaglia" (arr. F. Fischer)
02. Suite In D Major: I. Ouverture
03. Suite In D Major: II. Allemande
04. Suite In D Major: III. Paysanne
05. Suite In D Major: IV. Courante
06. Suite In D Major: V. Sarabande
07. Suite In D Major: VI. Bourree
08. Suite In D Major: VII. Menuet
09. Suite In D Major: VIII. Adagio
10. Suite In D Major: IX. Menuet
11. Suite In G Major: I. Phantasie
12. Suite In G Major: II. Allemande
13. Suite In G Major: III. Courrente
14. Suite In G Major: IV. Sarabande
15. Suite In G Major: V. Menuette
16. Suite In G Major: VI. Guige
17. Delitiae Testudinis, Oder Erfreuliche Lauten-Lust: Suite In D Minor: I. Praeludium
18. Delitiae Testudinis, Oder Erfreuliche Lauten-Lust: Suite In D Minor: II. Paduana
19. Delitiae Testudinis, Oder Erfreuliche Lauten-Lust: Suite In D Minor: III. Allemande
20. Delitiae Testudinis, Oder Erfreuliche Lauten-Lust: Suite In D Minor: IV. Courante
21. Delitiae Testudinis, Oder Erfreuliche Lauten-Lust: Suite In D Minor: V. Sarabande
22. Delitiae Testudinis, Oder Erfreuliche Lauten-Lust: Suite In D Minor: VI. Gigue
23. Suite In F Major: I. Ouverture
24. Suite In F Major: II. Allemande
25. Suite In F Major: III. Courrente
26. Suite In F Major: IV. Sarabande
27. Suite In F Major: V. Gavotte
28. Suite In F Major: VI. Menuette
29. Suite In F Major: VII. Bourree
30. Suite In F Major: VIII. Guige
31. Passacaglia In C Minor (arr. from 1 Movement of Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo By F. Fischer)


In the early 1700s, throughout the German-speaking Habsburg lands of the Holy Roman Empire, the lute gradually gained a new lease of life and was brought to its highest level of development. The new generation of German virtuosos began to build a new tradition of their own - adding new elements derived from Italian opera and local popular traditions which produced a new hybrid style of lute music with its own definite character. The result was that the lute became immensely popular once again; one writer said in 1701 that there were so many lutes in Prague that one might roof a house with them.

Joachim Held has selected a program of works from a manuscript compiled by the priest and Lute virtuoso, Ferdinand Fischer,housed in the famed archives of the Benedictine monastery of Kremsmünster, near Salzburg. This is a fascinating and beautiful program of works – highly representative of the tuneful, yet polyphonically accomplished lute revival of the German High Baroque

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