Very nice- I love to hear any French Baroque lute music when done so beautifully & convincingly; as I can never figure it out for myself- esp. the unmeasured preludes. I always go right back to Weiss- maybe Reusner or Bittner if I want to feel a little "French".
If your right hand position is "wrong", then so was the late Charles Mouton's, and a whole lot of others. Synthetic basses ARE reverb! - so relax. your'e OK. If the 13 course lute ever weighs intolerably on your conscience I could certainly use an upgrade- ;-) Dan P.S. Some years ago Clay Erickson posted his explorations into Baroque lute RH position, plucking technique, and different possibilities of desirable tone color; entitled "Into the mouth of the lute", very interesting stuff. He came up with a RH very much like yours. On Oct 21, 2011, at 4:56 AM, Christopher Wilke wrote: > Hello all, > > I've put up four new videos of pieces in A minor by Mademoiselle Bocquet. > Good stuff. Her music is wonderfully idiosyncratic and filled with > character. Be warned, though: everything is wrong in the videos - wrong > instrument (13-course), wrong strings (synthetic), wrong miking (very close), > wrong reverb (zero), and wrong hand position (close to bridge) ;-) Actually, > I'm deliberately going after a concept of tone quite different from what > seems to be the norm nowadays. Comments welcome. > > Prelude: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQLCMNIljOA > > Sarabande: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLWt9EjqFeA > > La Polonoise, an allemande gay > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX5aURi_pd8 > > Allemande, an allemande grave > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lWon1JBXIc > > Enjoy! > > Chris > > Christopher Wilke > Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer > www.christopherwilke.com > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
