l'amant malheureux
Lute music in the 17th century reached great refinement and beauty in France. Composers such as Denis and Ennemond Gualtier, Charles Mouton and Jacques Gallot, created a school of composition which influenced greatly their contemporary harpsichordists and German lutenists.
This programme draws on this rich repertoire comprising un- measured preludes, tombeaux, and dance movements such as courantes, sarabandes and chaconnes.
Les Barricades Mystérieuses
Theorbo music from the court of Versailles
Original works by Robert de Visee, the court theorbist and guitar tutor to the Louis XIV, alongside my own transcriptions of pieces written for harpsichord or bass viol by Couperin, Marais, Duphly and Forqueray.
Robin is to the Greenwood Gone
The lute in the Elizabethan period was a much loved and revered instrument, and over 2000 pieces have come down to us, mostly in manuscripts.
This programme presents dance movements such as Pavans and Galliards, and settings of popular tunes of the time such as Greensleeves, Wallsingham and Robin.
Composers include John Dowland, Francis Cutting, Alfonso Ferrabosco