I have an old LP that was a favorite of mine in the 70's, by Walter Gerwig, on the "Nonesuch" label, entitled, "Baroque Lute" ... on one side is the Bach BWV 995, and on the other, two suites, one in c minor by Buxtehude, and the other in f# minor, by Pachelbel ... both are complete in four movements, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, and Gigue ... either piece is about ten minutes long, total ... the liner notes suggest Gerwig himself intabulated the Buxtehude from a "recently discovered" group of keyboard suites, ( I believe Gerwig died in 1966 ... ) and speculate the piece may have been written for the clavichord ... Gerwig's presentation of his own workup of a keyboard piece is defended on the grounds it was common practice for lutenists to do so in Buxtehude's own time ... the provenance of the Pachelbel isn't discussed ... I do find a couple references to "Lute Suite in f# minor" by Pachelbel when I search on the web ... apparently, Goran Sollscher has recorded a piece b! y the same title, on an eleven - string guitar, on a CD entitled, "Eleven - String Baroque" ... I've not heard that, so I don't know empirically whether it's the same piece recorded earlier by Gerwig, but it seems likely ... I'm trying to discover whether either piece is available out there somewhere in print, ideally in tablature ... in a contemporary manuscript available in a facsimile edition or on microfilm, in a scholarly journal, in a published edition, something Gerwig might have left behind, or elsewhere ... other than the guitar version of the Pachelbel referenced above, I'm not aware that either piece has been recorded on baroque lute since Gerwig, and if either has, I'd be interested to know that as well ... any insight will be appreciated ... Steve Burd ... --
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