This album presents a wide-ranging selection of Baroque music for lute and guitar, performed by Jakob Lindberg, showcasing works by composers from across Europe whose music shaped the solo repertoire of these instruments during the 17th and 18th centuries.
The program includes music by David Kellner, a Leipzig-born lutenist active in Stockholm, whose elegant fantasias feature expressive arpeggios, slurred scales, and striking pedal notes. Robert de Visée, guitarist and theorbo player at the court of Louis XIV, contributes a suite in D minor that reflects the refined, dance-infused court style beloved by the French king.
From the German tradition, J.S. Bach is represented by the Prelude in C minor, BWV 999 and Fugue in G minor, BWV 1000, likely conceived for lute or Lautenwerk (a lute-harpsichord), offering polyphonic richness and idiomatic writing.
Seven Scottish tunes drawn from the Balcarres Lute Book highlight the cross-cultural links between French and Scottish traditions, with modal harmonies and pentatonic melodies that fit the lute beautifully.
Lodovico Roncalli’s Sonata No. 8 from his 1692 collection Capricci Armonici blends strummed and plucked textures in a six-movement suite characterized by charm and stylistic variety.
The album closes with two pieces by Silvius Leopold Weiss: a Sonata in F major compiled from early manuscripts, showing his Italian-influenced lyrical style, and the deeply expressive Tombeau sur la mort de M. Comte de Logy—a tribute to a fellow lutenist and one of the most poignant laments in the lute repertoire.
Lindberg’s performance on authentic period instruments reveals the full expressive range of the lute and Baroque guitar in this richly curated journey through early music.
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