This release is something of a revelation: taking materials known for the most part only to scholars, lutenist Oleg Timofeyev and the Ukrainian ensemble Sarmatica have created a convincing realization of a musical document, the Lviv Lute Tablature, that has so far been known mostly to scholars. The Ukrainian city of Lviv has had many names and borne many nationalities over its nearly millennium-long existence, and the relevant tradition here is not Ukrainian but Polish: the manuscript, compiled between the 1550s and the ...
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This release is something of a revelation: taking materials known for the most part only to scholars, lutenist Oleg Timofeyev and the Ukrainian ensemble Sarmatica have created a convincing realization of a musical document, the Lviv Lute Tablature, that has so far been known mostly to scholars. The Ukrainian city of Lviv has had many names and borne many nationalities over its nearly millennium-long existence, and the relevant tradition here is not Ukrainian but Polish: the manuscript, compiled between the 1550s and the early 18th century, reflected the high-water mark of Polish influence in the form of the vast Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This collection of lute music was international in scope, containing music from composers as geographically distant as England's John Dowland. The variety of lute pieces would be enough to justify purchase in itself, but that's just the beginning. Timofeyev and Sarmatica (the name refers to a sort of Polish national aesthetic ideology) create both a program and a...
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Anonymous; Anonymous, Italian; Anonymous, Polish; Benedict de Drusina; Georg Brack; Giovanni Pacoloni; Jacques Arcadelt;... New. New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA. US orders only please.
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