Air on a G String: Baroque Guitar Masterpieces | Telarc CD80693

Air on a G String: Baroque Guitar Masterpieces

Label: Telarc

Cat No: CD80693

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 28th April 2008

Contents

Works

Weiss
Fantasia in C minor

Weiss
Prelude (Sm. 32, from the Sonata No.5 in G major)

Weiss
Allemande (Sm. 114, from the Sonata No.19 in F major)

Weiss
Courente Royale

Weiss
Tombeau sur la mort de M. Conte D’Logy

Weiss
Allegro

Saint-Luc
Suite in D major, "La Prise de Gaeta"

F Couperin
Les Silvains

F Couperin
Les Tours de Passe-Passe

F Couperin
Les Barricades Misterieuses

J S Bach
Partita in A minor

J S Bach
Adagio / Arioso (Sinfonia from the Cantata No.156)

J S Bach
Pastorale in F major, Movement III, BMV 590

J S Bach
Air on the G String from the Suite No.3 in D major

Artists

David Russell (guitar)

Works

Weiss
Fantasia in C minor

Weiss
Prelude (Sm. 32, from the Sonata No.5 in G major)

Weiss
Allemande (Sm. 114, from the Sonata No.19 in F major)

Weiss
Courente Royale

Weiss
Tombeau sur la mort de M. Conte D’Logy

Weiss
Allegro

Saint-Luc
Suite in D major, "La Prise de Gaeta"

F Couperin
Les Silvains

F Couperin
Les Tours de Passe-Passe

F Couperin
Les Barricades Misterieuses

J S Bach
Partita in A minor

J S Bach
Adagio / Arioso (Sinfonia from the Cantata No.156)

J S Bach
Pastorale in F major, Movement III, BMV 590

J S Bach
Air on the G String from the Suite No.3 in D major

Artists

David Russell (guitar)

About

'Air on a G String' brings together works by Jacques de Saint-Luc and Silvius Leopold Weiss, two of the master lutenists of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, as well as Russell’s own transcriptions for guitar of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach and François Couperin.

Silvius Leopold Weiss, born in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) in 1686, was the most renowned member of Germany’s leading family of lutenists during the time of Johann Sebastian Bach. Weiss wrote well over eight hundred pieces for lute – more than any other composer – including some sixty solo “sonatas”. 

The Flemish lutenist and composer Jacques de Saint-Luc was born in 1616 in Ath, twenty miles southwest of Brussels and not far from Belgium’s present-day border with France.

Couperin’s Les Silvains (The Woodland Fauns, Book I of Pièces de Clavecin [1713], Ordre 1, No. 8) is one of his earliest keyboard works of the pastoralism that figured so prominently in 18th-century French art. Tours de Passe-Passe (Book IV [1730], Ordre 22, No. 8) is a French colloquialism for “legerdemain” or “sleight-of-hand,” and in Couperin’s playfully effervescent piece indicates the crossing of hands at the keyboard.

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