I can highly recommend Stephen's translation of the Divine Comedy, as I've enjoyed a private copy for a number of years. I'm really pleased to see it available as an eBook, and will get a copy of that for my iPad.
Stephen, it is great to listen to your performances with pure gut strings. Can you tell us about your experience with them, pros and cons? And who made them? What string length and pitch? Etc ;-) And thanks for recording the entire publication! Hearty congratulations for getting through it! Rob www.robmackillop.net > On 5 May 2014, at 15:33, "stephen arndt" <stephenwar...@verizon.net> wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > I invite you to listen to my recording of Denis Gaultier's La > rhA(c)torique des dieux on an Andreas von Holst 11-course lute strung > entirely in pure gut (i.e., the basses are not gimped). Quite some time > ago I recorded the first forty-three pieces and then put the project > aside for well over a year owing to various reasons. Towards the end of > last year I resumed it and recorded pieces forty-four to sixty-one but > was very dissatisfied with my earlier recordings in terms of tempo and > sound quality, so I redid them. I used the tablature available for free > on Richard Civiol's site and took the Louis Pernot recordings as a > model, arpeggiating chords where he did and attempting to imitate his > ornaments. > > > If you care to, you can listen to an individual piece by clicking on > its title or to all pieces successively by using the playlist at the > bottom of the page here: > [1]http://www.verseandsong.com/song/baroque-lute-2/la-rhetorique-des-di > eux/. For those of you who do not know me, be forewarned: I am not a > professional musician, and this is strictly an amateur endeavor. > Nevertheless, I hope you will find it pleasant enough listening. Please > feel free to explore my website by using the expandable menu on the > left side of the page. > > > I hope you will forgive my including off-topic information on another > recent project of mine. I have revised my translation of Dante's Divine > Comedy in iambic pentameter and terza rima and now offer it as a Kindle > e-book. It is written in modern diction and normal syntax and strives > to remain highly faithful to the sense of the original. Moreover, it is > the only translation in the 400-year history of Dante translations into > English to employ perfect rhyme throughout. If you are interested, you > can find generous samples by clicking on the cover image at the > following Amazon pages: > > > The Inferno: [2]http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JQWNUXC > > The Purgatorio: [3]http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JRD2MPW > > The Paradsiso: [4]http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JS3B414 > > The whole Divine Comedy: [5]http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JST98MK > > Best regards to all, > > Stephen Arndt > > > > -- > > References > > 1. http://www.verseandsong.com/song/baroque-lute-2/la-rhetorique-des-dieux/ > 2. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JQWNUXC > 3. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JRD2MPW > 4. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JS3B414 > 5. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JST98MK > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
