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Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917274028 |
Catalogue number CC 72740 |
Release date 04 November 2016 |
"If you have any affinity for music of the lute, I heartily commend this recording to you. The performances are those of a master on the lute, the recording quality is that of a master recording engineer applying some of the highest skills in the industry. (I'll be writing more about Bert van der Wolf in the future!) In the DXD resolution to which I am listening, the sound quality is as good or better than any I've heard—capturing the sound of this 11-string lute's snap and resonance, in an ethereal natural acoustic environment, superbly. Highly recommended!"
Positive Feedback, 11-5-2020Like most musicians of his generation, Hubert Hoffmann, a member of Austria's leading early music ensemble Ars Antiqua Austria, pursues a wide-ranging career as a continuo player with numerous ensembles performing on period instruments all over the world. His fascination for the unique blend of lute music for the Habsburg Courts is reflected in his solo projects, in which he aims to shed light upon this undeservedly neglected niche in baroque lute music repertoire. His first solo CD of works by the Bohemian Count Johann Antonin Losy was received to wide critical acclaim. The second recording of music from the lute manuscript Ms.1255 in the monastery library at Klosterneuburg for the ORF Edition of Classical Music, the first ever recording of Wenzel Ludwig Radolt's important 1701 collection of lute concertos Die allertreueste Freindin for Challenge Classics, and the music of the Vienna lutenist Karl Kohaut, also for Challenge Classics, have now been issued.
In 2012, he was appointed curator of a long-term research project in the fields of lute music, lute playing and lute restoration at Kremsmünster Abbey in Upper Austria, producing an edition of the tablatures for lute and mandora, stored in the music library there. As a part of this work he has recently recorded music of Father Ferdinand Fisher, a lute playing member of this Benedictine Monastery, also for Challenge Classic.
From 2013 to 2015 he was active as chairman of the Austrian Lute Society "ÖLG". As artistic consultant, he is also engaged in establishing a new concert series with music from the Goess Manuscripts in the historic Fronmiller Hall at Ebenthal Castle in Carinthia.
If you have any affinity for music of the lute, I heartily commend this recording to you. The performances are those of a master on the lute, the recording quality is that of a master recording engineer applying some of the highest skills in the industry. (I'll be writing more about Bert van der Wolf in the future!) In the DXD resolution to which I am listening, the sound quality is as good or better than any I've heard—capturing the sound of this 11-string lute's snap and resonance, in an ethereal natural acoustic environment, superbly. Highly recommended!
Positive Feedback, 11-5-2020
All in all, whomever the composer or composers of the music on this disc are, it makes for attractive listening in an idiosyncratic but excellent series of 20 performances. Recommended.
Fanfare Magazine, 01-6-2017
Hoffmann is playing these works as concentrated as introverted, but understands it, to give the dance pieces drive and rhythmic movement. With a very dense atmosphere, underlines the recording technique the impression of the intimity and seclusion of a monastery cell
Concerto magazine Germany, 01-5-2017
Hoffmann abduct us in this musical world, sometimes lost in thought, sometimes galant - but always very own. The listener shall enjoy these discovery, very nice recorded and above all excellent
Klassik-Blog "Ouvertüre", 26-3-2017
" (...) IThink this material would mostly be interesting for the hardcore lute enthousiasts (...) "
Luister, 06-3-2017
Hubert Hoffmann's discovery is a real luck!…Music for silent moments which needs your attention
SWR 2 , 20-1-2017
Hoffmann plays the compositions fantasticly.
Kerk en Leven, 18-1-2017
''Hoffmann playes these works masterly.''
Kerk en Leven, 16-12-2016
Best rating: *****
"The player is known. It is Hubert Hofmann, and he is a d…. good one, too. What more can I say?"
HRAudio, 21-11-2016