Baron - Music for Lute Solo & Lute and Recorder
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96080
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 10th June 2022
Contents
Works
Concerto for lute, flute and cello in G majorConcerto for lute, oboe and cello in C minor
Concerto for lute and recorder in D minor
Duet for lute and flute in G major
Lute Sonata in B flat major
Partita for lute in F major
Sonata for lute and flute in G major
Artists
Bernhard Hofstotter (lute)Bozhena Korchynska (recorder)
Mariya Bil (cello)
Works
Concerto for lute, flute and cello in G majorConcerto for lute, oboe and cello in C minor
Concerto for lute and recorder in D minor
Duet for lute and flute in G major
Lute Sonata in B flat major
Partita for lute in F major
Sonata for lute and flute in G major
Artists
Bernhard Hofstotter (lute)Bozhena Korchynska (recorder)
Mariya Bil (cello)
About
Though it can be assumed a large portion of his work was lost, with around a dozen suites for solo lute and ten ensemble pieces with obbligato lute, Baron’s extant oeuvre is nonetheless substantial.
In the solo compositions, we predominantly find short, mostly two-part pieces in a late Baroque idiom. While these ‘simple’ suites, likely intended for pupils, offer little justification for Baron’s contemporaries having ranked him among the most important German composers of his day, the solo compositions also include works of a very different quality. The first four movements of the Suite [Partie] in F recorded here draw on wide-ranging melodic arcs and expressive modulations. The Suite [Sonata] in B flat is a special case: it is attributed by the original copyist to Silvius Leopold Weiss, and to Baron only by a later copyist (apparently J.G.I. Breitkopf). But it has been rightly pointed out that the presumed authorship of Weiss does not stand up to a stylistic comparison.
Baron’s ensemble works include eight suites or sonatas for lute and melody instrument (recorder, transverse flute, violin or oboe), with a cello at times added as a bass part. In some of these works the treatment of the lute part is particularly virtuosic, assigning the lute an important role in the melodic composition. Baron’s surviving chamber music shows him as a master of the ‘galant’ style and offers attractive and original music from a time in which the lute was already losing ground before disappearing completely from concert life in the second half of the 18th century, soon after Baron’s death.
Played on period instruments by Bozhena Korchynska (recorder, oboe and flute) and Mariya Bil (cello) and Bernhard Hofstötter (lute), whose previous recordings for Brilliant Classics by Ludovico Roncalli (95856), Francois Campion (95276) and The Baroque Lute in Vienna (95087) received excellent reviews. Gramophone about his Weiss recording: "some of the most sympathetic and beautiful Weiss-playing yet committed to disc".
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