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The complete London manuscript

Title
The complete London manuscript / Silvius Leopold Weiss.
Author
Weiss, Silvius Leopold, 1687-1750
Publication
  • [Leeuwarden, The Netherlands] : Brilliant Classics, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
  • Cardin, Michel
  • Laflamme, Christiane
  • Brilliant Classics (Firm), publisher. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl
Description
12 audio discs : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Weiss (a near exact contemporary of Bach) was renowned as one of the most proficient lutenists in Europe and he composed over 200 sonatas during his lifetime. The London Manuscript contains a staggering 26 solo sonatas as well as other individual and ensemble works with flute. The sonatas are not like the typical Classical sonatas that would appear in Mozart's time, but are structured more like a Baroque suite. Weiss utilised unusually sophisticated harmonies where he frequently employed diminished seventh chords and bold enharmonic changes. His musical language is highly expressive, full of daring chromatic harmonies and intricate counterpoint. Lutenist Michel Cardin reconstructed the London Manuscript with painstaking care in a period of over 10 years, bringing the various fragments to a playable standard and carefully analysing which segments belong where.
Uniform Title
Lute music. Selections
Alternative Title
Lute music.
Subject
  • Lute music
  • Flute and lute music
  • Music > 18th century
  • Sonatas (Lute)
  • Canons, fugues, etc. (Lute)
  • Overtures (Lute)
  • Minuets
Note
  • Title from box container.
  • Discs also issued separately.
  • Includes program notes by Michel Cardin in English (15 pages : portraits) inserted in box.
Event (note)
  • Recordings: 1992-2004, Montreal, Canada.
Contents
CD1. Sonatas nos. 1-3 -- CD2. Sonatas nos. 4-6 -- CD3. Sonatas nos. 7-9 -- CD4. Sonatas nos. 10-12 -- CD5. Sonatas nos. 13-15 -- CD6. Sonatas nos. 16-17 -- CD7. Sonatas nos. 18-20 -- CD8. Sonatas nos. 21-23 -- CD9. Sonatas nos. 24-26 -- CD10. Individual solo works I -- CD11. Individual solo works II ; Ensemble music I -- CD12. Ensemble music II.
LCCN
5028421950709
OCLC
  • ocn982960755
  • 982960755
  • SCSB-14025593
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries