As the lute becomes slowly more popular, I think we'll see more contemporary lute music popping up equally slowly (I think lutes in their various guises have a very interesting tonality and set of limitations to compose for, I'm enjoying making my own ham-fisted efforts at least...) Meanwhile, not necessarily all 'new' material, but I've been enjoying Peter Söderberg's three contemporary lute records: 20th century stuff like Cage, Tenney, Stockhausen etc, as well as recordings of more recent things written specifically for lute. The non-lute material he has selected comes over very well in my opinion. Here's to more!
On 22 Dec 2017, 00:21 +0000, Eric Hansen <librarylutepla...@gmail.com>, wrote: Hartt School composer David Macbride composes solo lute music for me, a total of 13 pieces as of this writing. I played one of them at the Lute Society Seminar in Cleveland a few years ago, it's up on YouTube. He and I have begun to record the pieces, a few at a time. Best to all, Eric On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Jacob Johnson <[1]tmrguitar...@gmail.com> 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 [uc?export=download&id=0B6_gM3BRE6ZrYVVZZU5QNmJqdDQ& amp;revid=0B6_g M3BRE6ZraW9nQ2U4SGNwV0tYVWxobnNBVjBsZi9FNHhzPQ] Guitar/Lute [1][2]www.johnsonguitarstudio.com [3]469.237.0625. On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Christopher Stetson <[2][4]christophertstet...@gmail.com> 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][5]peter.l...@gmail.com 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 -- To get on or off this list see list information at [2][4][6]http://www.cs.dartmouth. edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[5][7]peter.l...@gmail.com 2. [6][8]http://www.cs.dartmouth. edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. [9]http://www.johnsonguitarstudio.com/ 2. mailto:[10]christophertstet...@gmail.com 3. mailto:[11]peter.l...@gmail.com 4. [12]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 5. mailto:[13]peter.l...@gmail.com 6. [14]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Eric Hansen Librarian & lutenist -- References 1. mailto:tmrguitar...@gmail.com 2. http://www.johnsonguitarstudio.com/ 3. tel:469.237.0625 4. mailto:christophertstet...@gmail.com 5. mailto:peter.l...@gmail.com 6. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 7. mailto:peter.l...@gmail.com 8. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 9. http://www.johnsonguitarstudio.com/ 10. mailto:christophertstet...@gmail.com 11. mailto:peter.l...@gmail.com 12. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 13. mailto:peter.l...@gmail.com 14. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --