Ars Antiqua Austria / Gunar Letzbor
Viennese Lute Concertos
- Type CD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917229127
- Catalog number CC 72291
- Release date 01 April 2008
About the album
Wenzel Ludwig Edler von Radolt’s collection of lute music entitled ”To my most true and confiding friend”, inclined both to the merry and to the sad humours, herewith in the company of other faithful vassals of our innermost sensibility’ was printed in 1701 in Vienna by J(oh)ann Michael Nestler and bears a dedication to the then‚ Roman King’ Josef I.
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.
The codex represents the most extensive source of a neglected genre, that once enjoyed great popularity in the German speaking countries – including composers such as Esajas Reussner.
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11Concerto minor (transponiert) Ouverture
02:37 -
12Concerto minor (transponiert) Allemande
01:12 -
13Concerto minor (transponiert) Courente
01:15 -
14Concerto minor (transponiert) Sarabande
02:15 -
15Concerto minor (transponiert) Menuette
00:50 -
16Concerto minor (transponiert) Gigue
01:17 -
17Concerto minor (transponiert) Menuette
00:56 -
18Concerto minor (transponiert) Bourée
00:43 -
19Concerto minor (transponiert) Retirada
03:23 -
110Aria C Major Aria
01:06 -
111Aria C Major Allemande
00:53 -
112Aria C Major Courente
01:03 -
113Aria C Major Sarabande
00:58 -
114Aria C Major Gavotte
01:05 -
115Aria C Major Bourée
01:05 -
116Aria C Major Menuette
01:07 -
117Aria C Major Gigue
01:15 -
118Toccata F Major
07:50 -
119Concerto F Major Ouverture
04:15 -
120Concerto F Major Aria/Pastorale
01:24 -
121Concerto F Major La Querelle des Amantes
01:20 -
122Concerto F Major Menuette en canon
00:40 -
123Concerto F Major Capricio en canon
00:59 -
124Concerto F Major Gigue
01:05 -
125Concerto F Major Menuette
01:18 -
126Concerto G Minor Allemande et Gigue
03:17 -
127Concerto G Minor Courente et Menuette
02:08 -
128Concerto G Minor Sarabande et Aria
03:01 -
129Concerto G Minor Gavotte et Bourée
01:27 -
130Symphonia G Minor
06:48 -
131Concerto C Minor Ouverture
04:10 -
132Concerto C Minor Allemande
02:40 -
133Concerto C Minor Courente
01:33 -
134Concerto C Minor Sarabande
02:16 -
135Concerto C Minor Menuette
00:37 -
136Concerto C Minor Gavotte
00:47 -
137Concerto C Minor Menuette
01:00 -
138Concerto C Minor Gigue
01:29 -
139Concerto C Minor Bourée
00:40 -
140Concerto C Minor Retirada
03:59