Recordings of early guitar music often mix traditions and composers, looking for a pleasing balance, but this one is atypically in-depth. It may not be the disc to choose for the casual buyer looking for an hour of guitar music -- for one thing, the program contains music performed by various ensembles, some of them including a vocalist. But it's a godsend for guitarists, serious lovers of the instrument, and students of history, musical or otherwise. Francesco Corbetta, born in Pavia, did indeed make his way "across Europe ...
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Recordings of early guitar music often mix traditions and composers, looking for a pleasing balance, but this one is atypically in-depth. It may not be the disc to choose for the casual buyer looking for an hour of guitar music -- for one thing, the program contains music performed by various ensembles, some of them including a vocalist. But it's a godsend for guitarists, serious lovers of the instrument, and students of history, musical or otherwise. Francesco Corbetta, born in Pavia, did indeed make his way "across Europe"; his students included both France's King Louis XIV and Britain's Queen Anne, as well as French lutenist and guitarist Robert de Visée. He was, in short, foundational to the development of music for plucked stringed instruments in the Baroque period, yet he remains almost unknown and unrecorded. This attractive disc by the Italian historical-performance ensemble La Ghirlanda Mosicale tries to rectify the situation with an overview of Corbetta's long career. That career extended...
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