After enjoying several centuries of sustained popularity and relevance in European musical life, the lute family of instruments was undeniably falling out of prominence by the end of the 17th-century...
Held,Joachim Music For The King: French Lute Music Of Baroque CD1. Pr??Lude 2. Allemande - la Belle Lucr?¿Ce 3. Courante - la Nonpareille 4. Sarabande - la Divine 5. Gavotte - la Dauphine 6. Menuet -...
The lute by Sixtus Rauwolf heard on this recording was probably built in the last decade of the sixteenth century. Some hundred years later, in 1715, it was converted to suit the musical tastes and...