The Pachelbel's suite is in the Wayne's archives. RT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Burd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:43 AM Subject: [LUTE] Inquiry ... >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 ... > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > ___________________________________________________________ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com
