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Reviewer:
William Yeoman
After delighting
us with the music of Jacobean and Italian Renaissance masters of the lute in his
previous two recordings, London-based Swedish lutenist Jakob Lindberg turns his
attention to works by French and German Baroque composers with equally
felicitous results.
Lindberg’s Sixtus Rauwolf lute was built in Augsburg around 1590 as a seven- or
eight-course instrument. In 1715 it was altered and became the 11-course
instrument it is today. As Tim Crawford writes in his superb booklet note,
Lindberg has chosen works ‘that could plausibly have formed part of the
repertory of an owner of the instrument at around the time of its final
conversion’. Crawford also explores the similarities between instrument
restoration and early music performance, and the relationships between the
German composers Esaias Reusner, David Kellner, ‘Mr Pachelbel’ and Weiss, and
the French composers of an earlier generation from which they drew inspiration,
such as François Dufault and Charles Mouton. The Baroque dance suite, with its
variations on the classic Allemande-CouranteSarabande-Gigue pattern, dominates.
There are, however, clear differences between the French and German styles;
furthermore, within those, the distinctive voice of each composer is evident.
These are voices Lindberg hears
clearly and translates with great sympathy and imagination. He is stately and
expressive in Reusner’s Padoana while seizing upon the extravagant trills
and strums evoked by the Dufault and the elegant deportment of the Mouton.
Lindberg similarly relishes the toccata-like textures, bittersweet harmonies and
melodic attractiveness of Kellner, ‘Mr Pachelbel’ and Weiss, though it is in the
latter’s Sarabande and Ciacona that Lindberg’s mastery of this repertoire is at
its most convincing – and moving.
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