Like most (pro) lute players, I play, record and arrange my share of
contemporary music, have some written for me even, but it's far
outnumbered by early music.
On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 at 00:12, Daniel Shoskes
<[1][email protected]> wrote:
I highly recommend it. I commissioned a work from Ronn McFarlane and
I think it's one of his most beautiful:
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgAAyMtgtE
<[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgAAyMtgtE>
Ronn playing it live: [4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3j5muuVKc
<[5]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3j5muuVKc>
Recording:
[6]https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/passacaglia/878859427?i=8788594
69
<[7]https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/passacaglia/878859427?i=878859
469>
Also commissioned a version of Adon Olam from Rene Schiffer that is
in the form of a passacaglia with a theorbo part.
Let's keep them gainfully employed!
Danny
> On Dec 21, 2017, at 5:38 PM, Jacob Johnson
<[8][email protected]> wrote:
>
> I don't think that's entirely accurate. Ronn McFarlane plays
his own
> compositions, Jakob Lindberg performs the Britten Nocturnal (I
know,
> it's not that new, and it's not really for lute, but IMO it
kinda
> counts), Chris Wilke recorded a whole cd of Roman Turovsky's
new works
> for baroque lute, I saw Elizabeth Kenny perform TWO recent
theorbo
> commissions at the LuteFestWest, and there's certainly more
examples I
> just can't think of at the moment.
> As soon as I can afford to do so, I intend to commission some
works for
> myself to play.
>
> Jacob Johnson
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> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Christopher Stetson
> <[2][10][email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello all.
> An interesting question, Peter, thanks for bringing it up.
To
> answer
> honestly and personally, I'm not especially interested in
new
> music,
> per se, for any of the instruments I play (mainly lute,
guitar,
> mandolin, but some others too). I couldn't really say
why,
> except
> that the music I've looked at from the last 30 years
tends, and I
> mean
> tends, to be difficult and not especially tuneful to my
ear.
> There
> are exceptions, of course, and I play some of those,
though
> mostly on
> guitar. I'm not a professional, so I tend to be fairly
> conservstive
> in the music I choose to spend time seeking out and
playing. I
> also
> don't play many of the old compositions that fit the above
> criteria.
> I fully realize. however, that one person's difficult
is
> another
> person's interesting, and I'm really glad that people are
writing
> new
> music for lute.
> Best to all, and keep playing,
> Chris.
>
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Peter Martin
> <[1][3][11][email protected]>
> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I recently bought a Wigmore Hall Live CD of a 2013
concert by
> countertenor Iestyn Davies and lutenist Thomas Dunford.
It
> included
> the world premiere performance of a substantial piece
by Nico
> Muhly
> called Old Bones. Up to now, I'd never heard of
it, which
> surprised
> me because Muhly is a very successful young American
composer.
> His
> new opera Marnie has just premiered at English National
Opera,
> and his
> previous opera Two Boys was given at ENO and at the Met
in New
> York.
> The score of Old Bones is available from Music Sales.
Yet I
> can't see
> that the lute world has paid the slightest attention to
it.
> Which sets me wondering, not about Muhly as such, but
about new
> music
> generally. With the honourable exception of Jacob
> Heringman,
> scarcely
> anyone plays it. Any thoughts on why this is?
Are we
> simply
> not
> interested in new music?
> Peter
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2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgAAyMtgtE
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgAAyMtgtE
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3j5muuVKc
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3j5muuVKc
6. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/passacaglia/878859427?i=878859469
7. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/passacaglia/878859427?i=878859469
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