The Siena Lute Book is the best manuscript source of fifteenth century Italian lute music in existence, and it is kept in the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. Its creamy white and carefully copied pages yield more than seven score lute compositions, compiled in the last decade of the fifteenth century but belonging to a time about 40 years before. On ...
The booklet notes for this album are quite complex, and their English translation has various problems. One is that the "flutes" referred to throughout are commonly called recorders in English. The music, however, is capable of standing on its own. The program brings together two related repertoires that are often performed separately (when they ...
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