Classical new release - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution
Classical new release - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution
Classical new release - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution
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Label: Glossa<br />
File Under: <strong>Classical</strong>/Instrumental<br />
Catalogue No: GCD920113<br />
Barcode: 8424562201132<br />
NORMAL Price<br />
Format: 1 CD<br />
Packaging: digipack<br />
José Miguel Moreno [Baroque lute]<br />
Johann Gottfried CONRADI: Neue Lauten Stücke<br />
José Miguel Moreno<br />
RELEASE DATE<br />
11TH MARCH 2013<br />
Given his absence in recent years from the studios, it is a pleasure to announce a <strong>new</strong> recording from that dexterous<br />
musical intelligence that is José Miguel Moreno; and so soon too after his album devoted to the music of David Kellner.<br />
Again we are in unknown territory – German and Bohemian lute music from around the start of the 18th century – and<br />
again with Moreno as a trusty guide playing his self-built 11-course Baroque lute.<br />
1724 marked the date of publication in Frankfurt an der Oder of the Neue Lauten Stücke by one Johann Gottfried<br />
Conradi, possibly a scion of a notable German family of composers of the time. 1721 saw the death of the aristocratic<br />
Jan Antonín Losy, a Bohemian lutenist greatly admired by his contemporaries (including by that towering figure of the<br />
instrument, Silvius Leopold Weiss, who dedicated to Losy a heartfelt Tombeau).<br />
The surviving output of both these barely-known figures of the Baroque solo lute music tradition is small but José Miguel<br />
Moreno presents three exemplary suites full of improvisatory preludes and characterful dance movements (Courantes,<br />
Gigues, Sarabandes, Minuets...), allowing him both to demonstrate how Conradi and Losy had absorbed influences<br />
coming from France and Italy but also to evoke the interior rhetoric of the music of these composers in Moreno’s<br />
inimitable exuberant style.