----- Original Message ----- From: David Tayler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 0:08 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Vivaldi
> Also works nice on 6 course mandolin, and archlute > in mandolin tuning. On mandolin you have not the > parallel octaves, and the modulating parts are > easier with the open e string in the middle. As Eric Liefeld notes in his article for the LSA Quarterly (sitting in a hotel far from home, I don't have the citation on hand, but hopefully he'll happen by to comment), playing the Vivaldi lute works as scored on 5- or 6-course mandolino leaves a gap in the middle range. This is the way O'Dette recorded them for Hyperion. He has since turned to favor archlute for the works to designate "leuto." > Orchestra is way bigger than I like for this > piece... Of course, this is the rather well-known Il Giardino Armonico. In spite of the single-strung archlute (or perhaps because of it...I know it's in spite of and not because of the plectra applied to mandolini) their recording of the Vivaldi lute and mandolin works is my favorite. The recorded RV 93 as scored, one instrument per part: "leuto" (whatever that meant), two violins, and basso continuo. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
