On Tuesday, Apr 10, 2007, at 04:46 America/Los_Angeles, Daniel Shoskes wrote:
> I don't have access to the liner notes online. Is there any > historical precedent for a lute/mandolin pairing in the Baroque? I have the LSA Quarterly review copy, and the liner notes say little more than that Weiss knew what a mandolin was: "His chamber music is less well known, on account of its mostly incomplete state. Sometimes the intended scorings are clear, but only the lute parts survive. The pieces recorded here (from a manuscript in the British Library) do not even have indications of scoring. The idea of performing them with mandolin was inspired by Weiss's free treatment of some of his own works; one existed, for example, in versions for two lutes and for lute and flute. It is also very probable that Weiss would have encountered mandolin players among his many Italian colleagues in Dresden." To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
