About Vallet’s quartets: with my ensemble “Le Concert du sieur Ballard” we do play them regularly and came to the conclusion that there are very few “mistakes” indeed. Anne Van Royen’s edition is excellent and with very diplomatic corrections. Very nice music to play ! Jean-Marie
> Le 13 janv. 2018 à 16:42, Rainer <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Dear lute netters, > > my Vallet editions has reached milestone 1. All pieces entered and proofread > numerous times. > > 70% of the critical notes entered (a nightmare). > > > I wonder if it makes sense to add the quartets. As far as I know there was an > edition published by Tree(?). > > Anyway, I have played Vallet quartets only once in my life in Mark Wheelers > flat in Muelheim 20 years ago. > > The players were Mark (who seems to have disappeared), Stefan from Wuppertal, > Kenneth Bee (still on the lute list?) and myselfe. > > Now I have listened to one of the quartets in Fronimo. > > It sounds VERY strange - lots of wrong notes. > > In his article about the quartets Stan Buetens argued that they sound OK when > played on lutes. > > What do people say who have played the quartets? > > Should I include them in my edition? > > Rainer > > PS > > Playing music for 4 lutes was really fun :) > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
