Lute Music and Other Early Music: Stunning Recordings We Love

[MRC01]

Hello friends,

Today, I eventually noticed that I have not yet shared this wonderful performance and recording by Paul Berget entitled "SL Weiss on 11 Strings"; I download purchased in around 2006 at Magnatune site, and the album is fortunately still alive there and you can download-purchase. Really wonderful performance and stunning recording quality; highly recommended!
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It's also on Quboz: https://play.qobuz.com/album/sbqfxdeiyu0jc
I'll give it a listen today.

 

[dualazmak]

Hello friends,

Today I realized that I have not yet shared this wonderful performance and recording by Paul Berget entitled "SL Weiss on 11 Strings". I bought it for download on the Magnatune site around 2006, but fortunately the album is still there and you can buy it for download. Really great performance and amazing recording quality. I highly recommend it!
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Edit: If you would have serious difficulty in getting the intact album, please simply PM me.

Ref. https://www.bergetmusic.com/recordings.htm

I found it's also on YouTube;
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=OLAK5uy_kSgkqqsfh2r_MPj3xVHf6MES21QMUKnJQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg8hZFNVZz1QUYWyP2oxLUw
and on Apple Music;

 

[Aynsley]

Hello friends,

Today, I eventually noticed that I have not yet shared this wonderful performance and recording by Paul Berget entitled "SL Weiss on 11 Strings"; I download purchased in around 2006 at Magnatune site, and the album is fortunately still alive there and you can download-purchase. Really wonderful performance and stunning recording quality; highly recommended!

Thank you for introducing yet another talented artist. I found a copy of the Weiss album on Apple Music, and listened to it with great pleasure. It's interesting that Berget chose to play the Weiss pieces on an 11-string classical guitar. I can't say I've ever heard of such an instrument.

I also noticed that Apple Music has some other albums by Berget, including two of Bach's music. That was an unexpected find, and I'm grateful to you for leading me in the right directon.

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Edit: If you would have serious difficulty in getting the intact album, please simply PM me.

I used to belong to the Lute Society of England, and they loaned me a rather heavy lute during the years that I was in university. In those days there weren't many luthiers making instruments to the specifications of historical instruments. I was fortunate to meet one such craftsman on a Lute Society summer school. He was from Switzerland, and told me that he spent most of his spare time travelling the country looking for old barns, the older the better. If the barns were in poor condition, he would negotiate with the owners to purchase lengths of wood that he then used to make fine lutes. He told me that wood which had been weathered a hundred years or more produced the finest sound.

 

[dualazmak]

I also noticed that Apple Music has some other albums by Berget, including two of Bach's music. That was an unexpected find, and I'm grateful to you for leading me in the right directon.

Yes, you are quite welcome! So far, in my SSD library I have these three albums of Paul Berget.
All of these albums are really stunning, sublime and enjoyable. The sound quality is amazingly excellent all the way through.

Baroque Lute Duets: with Edward Martin, this was already shared in my very early post #3 here, also highly recommended!
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/martin-duets/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lHr35BDTRITME4TOtleFTKhIpQEan29_c


The Siena Lute Manuscript:
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/berget-sienalute/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k0Cw-AmZedZ0FoDqaLzDlJ2Jgc19obRHc


and,
SL Weiss on 11 Strings:
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/berget-weiss11/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=OLAK5uy_kSgkqqsfh2r_MPj3xVHf6MES21QMUKnJQ