Very nice music Konstantine, and well played. Thank you for sharing
this along with your observations.
Best,
ed
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 2:13 PM Konstantin Shchenikov
<[1]konstantin.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
I had experience with that music. I've recorded 1st and 2nd with
organ,
played it in concerts with harpsichord and another archlute. I
also did
some guitar solo and guitar duo arrangements of several sonatas
for
Anthony Hart and played some of them on XIX c. guitar.
I read through more or less all 24 lute sonatas. Some of them are
very
interesting. In the average the music is of interesting
transitional
style and good quality. There are some signs of old style, like
2-part
form close to Scarlatti Sonatas or Bach-Sons pieces. The manner
of
working with material is mostly old-fashioned for 70s' when Haydn
and
Mozart were flourished, but the musical material itself sounds
more
close to those vienna classics with some interesting haromies of
very
'fresh' style linked to me with Mozart or even Schubert (f-minor
sonata
particulary, find the link below).
After playing with harpsichord and archlute I came to conclusion,
that
texture is missing in this music. There is a lot of fast
contrasts in
material which must be supported with different types of texture
in
accompaniment: choral chords in 1st bar, arpeggios in the 2nd and
counterpoint in 3rd...
Using similar kind of melodies and harmonies Mozart wrote such a
texture contrasts out carefully in his sonatas. Reggio uses
outdated
manner of spelling and leave musicians to improvise it. (So, the
organ
is not the best instrument for accompaniment here and my first
recordings are not satisfying, I'm still thinking of re-recording
this
music with new ideas)
There are lots of question for me regarding this music.
The first is what instrument Reggio called lute? It's written in
treble
clef and in high tessitura. Should it sound octave lower, like
classical guitar does? In this case some places occurs where
lower note
in the lute part are lower than bass part. May be it's some
little
instrument with high tunings? - So, this places with doubtful
voice
leading will be solved, but may be this doubtful voice leading is
just
composer's error?
What kind of tuning is involved? May be different tunings? Some
chords
written out very comfortable for classical guitar tuning (but
also for
archlute in A), some are written way to low even for archlute in
G.
There is a sonatas in terrible keys for lute... That's all are
very
interesting and I highly recommend to play Reggio. He is worth of
it.
So here are my recordings:
F-minor
[1][2]https://youtu.be/efGYZtcx04Y
C-major
[2][3]https://youtu.be/AI5Yjel4V7c
Cheers,
Konstantin
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References
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2. [5]https://youtu.be/AI5Yjel4V7c
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3. https://youtu.be/AI5Yjel4V7c
4. https://youtu.be/efGYZtcx04Y
5. https://youtu.be/AI5Yjel4V7c
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