Hello
@Music707,
Thank you for sharing your nice list.
It is interesting that Wikipedia cited Rolf Liasvand's rather negative comments on the music by Kapsberger in this specific CD, even tough he actually recorded this CD!
The features listed above led some modern scholars to share this view and they tend to believe that Kapsberger was a composer of inferior ability. Prominent among these critics is lutenist Rolf Lislevand: in his words, "Kapsberger was as bad a composer as he was a fine instrumentalist [...] The ideas are often badly developed, and are freely associated with one another; no real musical discourse is built up [...] the rhythm—even after serious efforts at fathoming it—wavers between inspired cleverness and total confusion." (Rolf Lislevand, liner notes to "Johann Hieronimus Kapsberger: Libro Quarto d'Intavolatura di Chitarone", 1993. Auvidis/Astrée AS 128515)
Here I believe "
Johann Hieronimus Kapsberger" is just the same as "
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger", right?
It looks we have some confusions for the spelling of the composer' name!
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In any way, since I was/am very much impressed with
one CD of Rolf Lislevand shared in my post #46, I would like to listen to his performances of Kapsberger's music.
Also please refer to
my post here; I shared one of Rolf Lislevand's track as one in my "audio sampler/reference music playlist".
Is this CD identical to the one I shared in
my post #4 (SY 98159 Symphonia) ? It looks Yes, I assume. This CD was later-on re-released from Panclassics Label and also Glossa Label, according to Discog.com;
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By the way, in track-7:
Sonata C Major “Largo” of this CD, can you clearly hear a bird,
Nightingale (
Luscinia megarhynchos), wonderfully joining in this midnight recording session at a small quiet chapel? It would be a nice challenge to our audio system.
As for the lute duet music of Weiss, I also very much like the one performed by
Edward martin and
Paul Berget as shared in
my post #3; highly recommended.
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I do not have this one, but I have one CD performed by
Pascal Monteilhet on theorbo, 592095 FNAC Music, as shared i
n my post #24.
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Sampler tracks (track 1 - 7) in YouTube;
Really enjoyable and highly recommended.