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The Knight of the Lute - Music From the Varietie of Lute Lessons 1610

1/1/2009, 19 Tracks, 1:01:57

Featuring

  • Matthew Wadsworth
  • John Dowland
  • Gregorio Huet
  • Anthony Holborne
  • Anonymous
  • Laurencini da Roma
  • Daniel Bacheler
  • Robert Ballard
  • Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder
  • John Perrichon
  • Moritz von Hessen-Kassel
  • René Saman
  • Thomas Morley

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Recording & Production

The recording was made at The National Center For Early Music in York, England, during December 2006 and May 2007.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

John Dowland, the most brilliant lutenist of his day, was overlooked for a court lutenist position in 1594, likely due to his Catholicism and difficult personality, leading him to seek employment in Europe.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Matthew Wadsworth, the lutenist on this recording, won the London Student of the Year award in 1997 for developing Braille lute tablature.

Source: Booklet

Instruments

Matthew Wadsworth plays a 10-course lute made by Klaus Jacobsen in 1988, strung with gut strings from Aquilla in Italy and Daniel Larson in the USA.

Source: Booklet

Album & Artwork

The album title, 'The Knight of the Lute', refers to Laurencini of Rome, an Italian lutenist who was granted the 'Order of the Golden Spur' by the Pope.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The 'Varietie of Lute Lessons' contains 42 pieces in six forms popular around 1610: Fantasies, Pavans, Galliards, Almains, Corantos, and Voltas, with lutenist-composers from across Europe.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The 'Varietie of Lute Lessons' was published in 1610 by Robert Dowland, son of the famous lutenist John Dowland, and is believed to be mainly John Dowland's work.

Source: Booklet

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