Thank you Stuart - very much enjoyed the music and your performances. Christian Vasseur has two CDs available on the lovely 'Humming Conch' label:
http://www.hummingconch.net/artists/christian-vasseur Best Andrew On 15 Jan 2011, at 22:28, Stuart Walsh wrote: > Christian Vasseur wrote some lute pieces about twenty years ago. > They > are not in an 'advanced' atonal idiom. There is a fair amount of > humour, mischief or whimsy in some of the pieces and the player > often > has to make some final decisions about how to play the music. > Here's a stab at three: > 1) This is "La vida es un ciervo herida" for lute or vihuela and a > reference to Gongora. It is marked, lento. Luis de Gongora is a > Spanish poet (1561-1627) and the line translates as: Life is > wounded > stag. (Life is a wounded stag in whom the fast-stuck arrows > function as > wings.) Well... > [1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoy3_9ntp94 > 2) This is "Yann Queffetleant's Jig" There is a Breton guitar > player > with that name but this is surely not a jig (?) > [2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?vápf3CDTAIc > and > 3) Untitled. No tempo indications.. The player is left to get on > with > it, presumably. > [3]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZUjcZ-osaA > Very interesting, characterful pieces. > Stuart -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
