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Reviewer: Peter
Loewen The Emperor Leopold’s extensive library attests to his considerable taste for new lute music. Among its volumes, one finds music by Jan Antonin Losy (c. 1650-1721). Losy was a wealthy aristocrat, which gave him the leisure to devote his time to music, developing his craft as both composer and performer. And as the music on this recording shows, Losy was very talented. If these works be considered typical, it would appear Losy’s influences were French. His music sounds learned. Using the French broken style known as the stile brisé, he creates the illusion of multi-part music by shifting quickly from one register to another. Above the layers of counterpoint, though, is often a clearly discernable melody that gives his suites a lyrical character. The program includes Suites in F, G, and B-flat; and in A, D, and G minor and concludes with a lovely Chaconne in F.
Losy knew Johann Kuhnau and
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, who praised his genius. Yet no single collection
of Losy’s lute music appears to have survived. Rather, Jakob Lindberg has
culled the suites on this release from various manuscript sources once held
by noble families in Austria and Bohemia, now in libraries as far flung as
Sweden and the United States. In the case of the Suite in A minor, which
opens the program, it is Lindberg who assembled individual movements to
create a coherent work. Tim Crawford in fact admits that some of the music
here might not actually have been composed by Losy but by a contemporary. | ||||
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