A few years ago, one of our internationally touring recitalists did a complete program devoted to Melchior Newsidler, son (not brother) of Hans. He will probably have a CD one of these years. He's the type of player who works on everything before deciding what to record. And there's a lot of Newsidler for him to absorb. At least 241 pieces by my count, making him the most prolific lutenist-composer of the 16th century. And surely the greatest of the central European lutenists. His pieces are not easy, though.
Richard Darcie once had a lute discography on line. Is it still available? ==============ajn===========jason kortis asked============= Hello everyone, I just posted a zip file of M. Newsidler's Libro Primo (Italian tab. = originally) to the Yahoo Fronimo group. I was wondering if anyone has = ever recorded any of his music?=20 Jason --
