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The Renaissance Album

~ Göran Söllscher (Artist)
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  • Audio CD (6 Oct 2005)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Universal Classics
  • ASIN: B000B8ISNW
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 141,026 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Lute music - Spain - Fantasía que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de Lud. 1:50£0.79
Listen  2. Lute music - Spain - Pavana de Alexandre0:56£0.29
Listen  3. Lute music - Spain - Gallarda 1:16£0.79
Listen  4. Chromatic Pavan 3:57£0.79
Listen  5. The Galiard to the Chromatic Pavan 1:17£0.79
Listen  6. Intabolatura de lauto - Fantasia XI in F 1:02£0.79
Listen  7. Intabolatura De Lauto - Ricercare Lvii In G Minor 3:05£0.79
Listen  8. Intabolatura de lauto - Transcription by Gunnar Spjuth - Fantasia in C0:52£0.29
Listen  9. Intabolatura De Lauto - Fantasia Xxxv In C Minor0:44£0.29
Listen10. Intabolatura de lauto - Transcription by Gunnar Spjuth - Fantasia VI in F 1:25£0.79
Listen11. My Lady Hudson's Allemande 1:23£0.79
Listen12. A Piece without Title0:48£0.29
Listen13. The Shoemaker's Wife 1:07£0.79
Listen14. Tabulaturen etlicher lobgesang und liedlein - Wer gnad durch klaff 1:14£0.79
Listen15. Der Königin tanzt (Eil Welischer tantz)0:57£0.29
Listen16. Ach Elslein, liebes Elselein mein - Transcription by Gunnar Spjuth 1:42£0.79
Listen17. In Liebes brunst0:54£0.29
Listen18. Welscher Tanz - "Wascha mesa" 1:31£0.79
Listen19. Lute Music - England - Mr Dowland's Midnight 1:30£0.79
Listen20. Lute Music - England - Sir John Smith, His Almain 2:23£0.79
Listen21. Lachrimae, 1604 - Semper Dowland semper dolens 3:40£0.79
Listen22. Lute music - Italy - Saltorello - Ballo detto il Conte Orlando - Saltorello 2:16£0.79
Listen23. Fantasia de consonancias y redobles 1:59£0.79
Listen24. Seis Pavanas - Transcription by Per-Olof Johnson - Pavana No.5 - Pavana No.6 2:01£0.79
Listen25. Mille Regretz - La canción del Emperador 2:45£0.79
Listen26. 4 Variations on "Guárdame las vacas" 1:14£0.79
Listen27. Lute Music - England - Forlorne Hope Fancy 4:09£0.79
Listen28. Hartes Ease (Almaine No.1)0:53£0.29
Listen29. The Fairy Round (Galliard No.3) 1:27£0.79
Listen30. Lute music - France - Branles de village 4:26£0.79
Listen31. The Right Honourable Ferdinando, Earl of Derby, His Galliard 2:20£0.79
Listen32. Lute Music - England - The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard 1:14£0.79
Listen33. Lute Music - England - A Fantasia 4:07£0.79
Listen34. My Lord Chamberlain his Galliard 1:56£0.79

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5.0 out of 5 stars Master of lute music, 10 Jan 2006
By Paul Magnussen (Campbell, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This album takes the playing of Renaissance music on the guitar to a new level.

Transcriptions from the Renaissance lute (and its cousin, the vihuela) formed a staple of the guitar repertory from the advent of Segovia (which is to say the 1920s) well through the 1960s; to the extent that few guitar recordings (and even fewer recitals) did not start with a few such pieces. These transcriptions were considerably facilitated by the facts that the lute until around 1580 had six or fewer courses (string pairs), and its tuning could be simulated by merely tuning the third string of the guitar down a semitone (although Segovia, characteristically, didn't bother).

Around the start of the 17th century, however, the lute started acquiring extra bass strings, so that the resulting pieces can no longer be played on a standard guitar without mutilation. This, and more particularly a strong revival of interest both in the lute itself (spearheaded by Julian Bream) and in historical "authenticity", has resulted in the almost total eclipse of Renaissance lute music in guitar recitals.

Until Göran Söllscher, that is. For Mr Söllscher is one of the few guitarists in the World to play an 11-string alto guitar constructed by Georg Bolin; and the result of that combination, whether Greensleeves or Bach, is simply magnificent.

The present album is a tribute to the late Per-Olof Johnson, the Julian Bream of Sweden and the artist's teacher. He it was who in the 1960s collaborated with Bolin to develop the alto guitar, explicitly to explore the lute repertory.

Söllscher's playing does in fact remind me of Bream's brilliant but now-aging recording's from the 60s -- and properly so, for no one understood this music like Bream.

For me, this was easily the best release of 2005 in any genre: well over an hour, and not a single bad track. When it comes to lute music, you can't go wrong with Söllscher.

P.S. For Dowland fans, the particular Fantasia played here is P.1, and "A Piece Without Title" is P.78.
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