Guitarist turned lutenist Paul O'Dette passed the age of 50 before he recorded any Bach. He had already recorded the best of Vivaldi, much of Kapsberger, and all of Dowland, but he waited until he had sufficient experience, maturity, and wisdom to take on the "rewarding challenge" as he puts it in the liner notes, of "marrying Bach's sublime music with the exquisite timbre and expressivity of the lute." Playing a 13-course lute, O'Dette takes on three pieces by Bach -- a suite, a partita, and a sonata -- none of them ...
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Guitarist turned lutenist Paul O'Dette passed the age of 50 before he recorded any Bach. He had already recorded the best of Vivaldi, much of Kapsberger, and all of Dowland, but he waited until he had sufficient experience, maturity, and wisdom to take on the "rewarding challenge" as he puts it in the liner notes, of "marrying Bach's sublime music with the exquisite timbre and expressivity of the lute." Playing a 13-course lute, O'Dette takes on three pieces by Bach -- a suite, a partita, and a sonata -- none of them originally for his instrument but all of them sounding completely idiomatic in these arrangements. The first piece, the six-movement Pièces pour la Luth à Monsieur Schouster, is Bach's arrangement in G minor of his solo Cello Suite in C minor, BWV 995, transposed here to A minor by O'Dette; the second piece, the six-movement Partita in F major, BWV 1006a, is Bach's arrangement of his E major solo Violin Partita; and the third piece, the four-movement solo violin Sonata in G minor, BWV...
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