Hi all! > >> > Is it true that Mozart added a short cadenza for solo lute in his version > of the Caecilia ode? > << > > I don't know what is H=E4ndel and what is Mozart in the lute part (aria no 5: > Der Fl=F6te Klageton, b-minor), but there is some sort of cadenza for lute > and > flute at the end. Most of the lute part is straight forward continuo playing, > with passages of broken chords (oncomftably low for an archlute) during the > words 'die sanfte Laute'.
At least the text is translated, as H=E4ndel's version of the aria is called The Soft Complainig Flute. I wonder who played the lute in the performance of this work. Maybe Kohaut or Daube? mvh Are Vidar Hansen -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
