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William Yeoman This latest release by one of today’s greatest lutenists features the music of, as Jakob Lindberg writes, ‘arguably the greatest lutenists of the first half of the 16th century’. Marco, Francesco and Alberto share a common musical language. There are dances such as the saltarello and the pavan, and more freely composed fantasias and ricercars and intabulations of madrigals and chansons. The textures are now homophonic, now polyphonic, according to the nature of the material. Each composer exploits as much of the compass of the six-course lute as possible. But their musical dialects are distinctive. Marco, the eldest of the three by close to 20 years, was evidently a great innovator and one of the pioneers of the so-called ‘broken style’. His Ricercar 30 and Saltarello La Traditora still retain some of their verdant freshness. Francesco, known to his contemporaries as Il Divino, reveals in his music a profound introspection despite the flashy displays of technique in works such as the brilliant opening Fantasia 34, La Compagna. Alberto strikes one as having been more extrovert, yet in masterpieces such as the Fantasia 20 demonstrates not only a mastery of vocalstyle polyphony but great depth of feeling. Lindberg is utterly at home in the idioms of all three. He brings a plangent sweetness to Francesco’s arrangement of Arcadelt’s Quanta beltà. The variations of Alberto’s Pavan La Romanesca have a fragrant, insouciant quality, and even Marco’s seemingly modest Ricercar 33 proves to be one of the highlights of this superb recording. |
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