{"product_id":"hertel-oboe-concertos","title":"Hertel: Oboe Concertos","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe lute master Nicolas Vallet (c.1583–\n\u003cbr\u003ec.1642) lived and worked in a borderland\n\u003cbr\u003ebetween musical categories. The first three\n\u003cbr\u003edecades of his life were spent in France,\n\u003cbr\u003ethen his musical career and published\n\u003cbr\u003ecompositions unfolded in Amsterdam.\n\u003cbr\u003eWidely acknowledged as a lute and dance\n\u003cbr\u003eteacher in the Netherlands, he also won\n\u003cbr\u003efame as one of the most important and\n\u003cbr\u003eprolific authors of sacred music for his\n\u003cbr\u003einstrument, making lute settings of the\n\u003cbr\u003eCalvinist psalms from the Genevan Psalter.\n\u003cbr\u003eVallet lived when the lute was undergoing\n\u003cbr\u003esignificant changes in terms of tuning, right\n\u003cbr\u003ehand technique and predominant genres,\n\u003cbr\u003ewith the impulse for some of these changes\n\u003cbr\u003ecoming from his French compatriots. Yet he\n\u003cbr\u003edemonstrates that the older Renaissance\n\u003cbr\u003eapproaches towards both composition and\n\u003cbr\u003eperformance are still relevant. An\n\u003cbr\u003eimpressive part of his repertoire comprises\n\u003cbr\u003econtrapuntal preludes and fantasias\n\u003cbr\u003efollowing the manner of the masters of\n\u003cbr\u003eprevious generations, in which various\n\u003cbr\u003ethematic motives and complex abstract\n\u003cbr\u003eforms are woven into the polyphonic\n\u003cbr\u003etexture. At the same time his lute\n\u003cbr\u003ecollections include vast variety of dances,\n\u003cbr\u003esome of which were just entering the\n\u003cbr\u003eperformance practice of the time, such as\n\u003cbr\u003ethe Sarabande and Bourée. The volume\n\u003cbr\u003eRegia Pietas is entirely dedicated to\n\u003cbr\u003eProtestant (Calvinist) sacred music\n\u003cbr\u003eintabulated for lute solo. Most of the\n\u003cbr\u003epsalms are arranged in two parts. Vallet’s\n\u003cbr\u003emain approaches to these chants is to either\n\u003cbr\u003edevelop them as a set of variations or\n\u003cbr\u003eprovide them a contrapuntal treatment.\n\u003cbr\u003eThis shows that Vallet’s output covers the\n\u003cbr\u003ethree instrumental genres of the\n\u003cbr\u003eRenaissance: free abstract pieces (preludes\n\u003cbr\u003eand fantasias), dances and settings of vocal\n\u003cbr\u003epieces.\n\u003cbr\u003eFor this recording a ten-course lute is used,\n\u003cbr\u003estrung in gut at 415 Hz. This type of gut\n\u003cbr\u003estringing considerably affects the overall\n\u003cbr\u003esound of the lute, its resonance and\n\u003cbr\u003esonority, hopefully bringing the lute a bit\n\u003cbr\u003ecloser to what one might imagine as an\n\u003cbr\u003e‘original’ sound of the time.\n\u003cbr\u003eOther information:\n\u003cbr\u003e● Recorded January 2023 in Sofia, Bulgaria\n\u003cbr\u003e● Genov plays a 10-course lute by Jiří\n\u003cbr\u003eČepelák (2019, Prague), after a mid-16thcentury Bolognese model by Hans Frei\n\u003cbr\u003e(Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, no.\n\u003cbr\u003eC.34); strung in gut\n\u003cbr\u003e● Booklet in English contains liner notes by\n\u003cbr\u003ethe artist and his biography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliant Classics","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":49607704576280,"sku":"5028421970974","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/4322757-3141851.jpg?v=1736513612","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/hertel-oboe-concertos","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}