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J S Bach - Lute Works: Vol. 1 | Harmonia Mundi HMU907438

J S Bach - Lute Works: Vol. 1

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMU907438

Barcode: 0093046743826

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 3rd September 2007

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About

"If the lute could be said to have a star performer, then Paul O'Dette must surely be it. He's the most sought-after lute performer at music festivals round the world, his recordings are always showered with awards, and he has a virtuoso touch and musical intelligence that I've rarely seen matched." The Daily Telegraph.
"O'Dette is the first to admit that we can't be sure Bach actually played the lute. His 'lute works' fall off the bottom of the normal 13-course instrument unless they are transposed upwards, they're written in keyboard notation rather than lute tablature, and are laid out in a distinctly 'keyboard-friendly' way. Bach so admired the sound, however, that he had a 'Lautenwerk' made for himself, a keyboard instrument with gut strings which one of his pupils said 'could almost deceive even professional lutenists'.
As the pieces here are expanded arrangements, largely by Bach himself, of music for solo cello and violin, confining them within the finger-board and 13 strings of a lute is a huge technical challenge to which O'Dette responds magnificently. He plays with a sense of total ease - fluent, expressive, sensitively balancing contrapuntal lines. He's delightfully flexible in dance movements, reflecting their functional origins but manipulating them imaginatively: a Gavotte en Rondeaux (BWV1006a) wittily wayward in its reappearances, a Courante (BWV995) enlivened with dancing 'notes inegales'. The recording, in a warm acoustic, is excellent - intimate but spared the clatter and scrape of fingers on strings. It's hard to imagine a better start to O'Dette's on-going Bach project.”
Performance *****, Sound ***** BBC
Instrument: 13-course Baroque lute by Andrew Rutherford, New York, 2002, after Sebastian Schelle.
All works arranged by Paul O'Dette

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