Von Radolt - Viennese Lute Concertos
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Label: Challenge Classics
Cat No: CC72291
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 2nd June 2008
Contents
Works
Aria in C MajorLute Concerto in C minor
Lute Concerto in E Minor (transposed)
Lute Concerto in F major
Lute Concerto in G major
Artists
Ars Antiqua AustriaConductor
Gunar LetzborWorks
Aria in C MajorLute Concerto in C minor
Lute Concerto in E Minor (transposed)
Lute Concerto in F major
Lute Concerto in G major
Artists
Ars Antiqua AustriaConductor
Gunar LetzborAbout
Radolt was of Austro-Italian aristocratic descent. He was born and died in Vienna. According to his own account, he spent his life ”so allured by the beguiling countenance of most pleasurable music, as to dedicate the course of my life to her“.
The ‘Most true and confiding friend’ is the only work of Radolt that survives today. Unusual in the part books are Radolt’s meticulous fingerings for the right hand that give us a precise insight into the style of lute playing current in the imperial city of the period. This extensive collection of 12 so-called ‘Concerti’ contains much that is remarkable about the Viennese Lute Concerto, a popular genre of the day comprising violins, lute and bass. The variety of scoring is striking, from four-part string writing with three obligato lutes of various sizes, to the relatively intimate combination of single violin, obligato viola da gamba (viol), lute and bass. In another concerto the composer suggests the addition of a wind instrument.
Ars Antiqua Austria was founded in Linz in 1995 with the aim of introducing audiences to the roots of Austrian baroque music played on period-instruments. The core of Ars Antiqua Austria comprises 8 musicians directed by Gunar Letzbor, however the ensemble is often augmented to perform works of a larger scale.
Ars Antiqua Austria:
- Gunar Letzbor: violin, director
- Hubert Hoffmann: lute
- Piroska Batori: violin
- Claire Pottinger-Schmidt: viola da gamba
- Jan Krigovsky: violone
- Sven Schwannberger: lute, traverso (Aria C-Major)
- Klaus Köb: lute
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