Telarc: CD80693
Air on a G String: Baroque Guitar Masterpieces
Weiss: Fantasia in C minor
Weiss: Prelude (Sm. 32, from the Sonata No.5 in G major)
Weiss: Allemande (Sm. 114, from the Sonata No.19 in F major)
Weiss: Courente Royale
Weiss: Tombeau sur la mort de M. Conte D’Logy
Weiss: Allegro
Saint-Luc: Suite in D major, "La Prise de Gaeta"
F Couperin: Les Silvains
F Couperin: Les Tours de Passe-Passe
F Couperin: Les Barricades Misterieuses
J S Bach: Partita in A minor
J S Bach: Adagio / Arioso (Sinfonia from the Cantata No.156)
J S Bach: Pastorale in F major, Movement III, BMV 590
J S Bach: Air on the G String from the Suite No.3 in D major
Our Price: £11.95 (£10.17 ex VAT)
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Artist(s): David Russell (guitar)
Release Date: 27th April 2008
More Details on Air on a G String: Baroque Guitar Masterpieces
'Air on a G String' brings together works by Jacques de Saint-Luc and Silvius Leopold Weiss, two of the master lutenists of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, as well as Russell’s own transcriptions for guitar of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach and François Couperin.
Silvius Leopold Weiss, born in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) in 1686, was the most renowned member of Germany’s leading family of lutenists during the time of Johann Sebastian Bach. Weiss wrote well over eight hundred pieces for lute – more than any other composer – including some sixty solo “sonatas”.
The Flemish lutenist and composer Jacques de Saint-Luc was born in 1616 in Ath, twenty miles southwest of Brussels and not far from Belgium’s present-day border with France.
Couperin’s Les Silvains (The Woodland Fauns, Book I of Pièces de Clavecin [1713], Ordre 1, No. 8) is one of his earliest keyboard works of the pastoralism that figured so prominently in 18th-century French art. Tours de Passe-Passe (Book IV [1730], Ordre 22, No. 8) is a French colloquialism for “legerdemain” or “sleight-of-hand,” and in Couperin’s playfully effervescent piece indicates the crossing of hands at the keyboard.
Silvius Leopold Weiss, born in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) in 1686, was the most renowned member of Germany’s leading family of lutenists during the time of Johann Sebastian Bach. Weiss wrote well over eight hundred pieces for lute – more than any other composer – including some sixty solo “sonatas”.
The Flemish lutenist and composer Jacques de Saint-Luc was born in 1616 in Ath, twenty miles southwest of Brussels and not far from Belgium’s present-day border with France.
Couperin’s Les Silvains (The Woodland Fauns, Book I of Pièces de Clavecin [1713], Ordre 1, No. 8) is one of his earliest keyboard works of the pastoralism that figured so prominently in 18th-century French art. Tours de Passe-Passe (Book IV [1730], Ordre 22, No. 8) is a French colloquialism for “legerdemain” or “sleight-of-hand,” and in Couperin’s playfully effervescent piece indicates the crossing of hands at the keyboard.
