>> I suspect it is a work Vladimir Vavilov, a Wandervogellaute player from >> St.Petersburg (he died 15-20 years ago) with a lifelong predilection for >> sautscheckerei. > I like this new word "sautscheckerei". You'd have to thank Stewart McCoy for the coinage.
>> He probably had a difficulty in finding the full text of "Ave" in the >> atheist country, so he just went and set the first 2 words as a chaconne. >> The first appearance of the piece seems to be on his LP from the >> mid-70's. > > Entertaining idea for the sparse wording of the piece. > >> Vavilov cannot be called a forger, because he deliberately ignored >> anything >> that would be a feature of the style of Caccini, or others to whom he >> ascribed >> his compositions. > > This is also nice way if seeing it. Anyhow there seem to be common(?) > believe that the piece is by Caccini? The piece is quite popular, and is the only widely known "Caccini" aside from Amarilli. In fact among people who are not familiar with Early Music it is known better than Amarilli. > > Anyhow one friend of mine who just reads the lutelist checked the > paly list of Finnish Classic FM; There they told it was a recording > by Andrea Bocelli, "Sacred Arias". The composer was named > "Caccini/Mercurio". > According to my friend this Mercurio has a homepage > http://www.stevenmercurio.com/home.html > Could it be that Vavilov has changed his name to to Steve Mercurio? Mercurio is too young for this, and obviously is the mere arranger of the version Bocelli sings. RT == http://polyhymnion.org/swv Feci quod potui. Faciant meliora potentes. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
