J.H. Kapsberger: Lute Works "Il Tedesco della Tiorba" - Paul O'Dette, lute - 1990, 2008.

Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger (c.1580-1651)

Lute Works "Il Tedesco della Tiorba" - Paul O'Dette, lute - 1990, 2008.

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"...Such is the ravishing quality of O'Dette's lute and chitarrone, the delicacy of touch and subtlety of timbre that he brings to this music, and the sheer imagination and variety of the pieces themselves, that the ear is captivated throughout. The seventeenth century repertoire is tinged by O'Dette with a delicious melancholy throughout. This is among the most desirable of these reissues [hmGold series]." --(Piers Burton-Page, International Record Review, May 2008)

(...) "Kapsberger was a lute virtuoso and, as O'Dette says, a 'Baroque composer in the true sense of the word,' active between about 1600 and 1650. He wrote delightful, original music which deserves to be much better known. Echoes of Dowland are audible in some pieces, while others wouldn't be out of place on a modern pop album. It's wonderful stuff, and Paul O'Dette plays it magnificently. O'Dette is recognised as one of the world's greatest lutenists, if not the greatest, and this disc shows why. He has such a great empathy with the music and plays with such skill and grace that I was instantly seduced the first time." (...) --(Sid Nuncius -a customer review-; amazon.com) read more

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