Two Lutes with Grace — Marc Lewon | Paul Kieffer | Grace Newcombe
Plectrum Lute Duos of the Late 15th Century

[5.3.2020]


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1. La Bernardina de Josquin (arr. F. Spinacino for lute duo)
2. Agricola / Ghiselin: Duo [Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013 (M 36)]
3. Dalza: Calata a doi lauti
4. Anon: J'ay pris Amours (arr. J. Martini for voice)
5. Anon: J'ay pris amours [Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013 (M 36)]
6. Anon: Jay pris amours (arr. F. Spinacino for 2 lutes)
7. Roelkin: De tous biens playne
8. Anon: La Spagna [Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013 (M 36)]
9. Tinctoris: Alleluja
10. Anon: Je ne fay (arr. F. Spinacino for 2 lutes)
11. Binchois: Comme femme desconfortee (with voice)
12. Agricola: Comme femme desconfortee
13. Tinctoris: Comme femme (arr. M. Lewon for lute and guitar)
14. Tinctoris: Fecit potentiam (arr. D. Fallows for lute duo)
15. Bedyngham: Fortune alas (arr. D. Fallows for voice)
16. Anon: Fortune alas [Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013 (M 36)]
17. Anon: Fortuna desperata (arr. F. Spinacino for lute duo)
18. Tinctoris: Le souvenir
19. Ghiselin: Juli amours (arr. F. Spinacino for lute duo)
20. Anon: Tenor So ys enprentyd
21. Frye: So ys empretid (with voice)
22. Tinctoris: Tout a par moy
23. Dalza: Saltarello
24. Dalza: Piva (version for 2 lutes)
25. Anon: Duo [Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013 (M 36)]
26. Tinctoris: Dung aultre amer
27. Tinctoris: De tous biens playne
28. Hayne: De tous biens (arr. F. Spinacino for lute duo)
29. Agricola: Gaudeamus omnes in Domino
30. Anon: Mit ganzem willen (arr. M. Lewon for voice)
31. Anon: Mit ganzem willen wünsch ich dir (arr. C. Young, P. Kieffer for lute duo)


Marc Lewon — plectrum lute, gittern
Paul Kieffer — plectrum lute
Grace Newcombe — voice



Recording: February 2018 – Bleibach, Germany
released: February 2020




[5.3.2020]

[19.4.2020]

medieval.org Remarks

http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/cds/remarks.html
16 March 2020
Todd M. McComb

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As I anticipate (perhaps?) some other Spring releases on which to remark, I do want to note the recent Two Lutes with Grace (Grace being the name of the vocalist who appears on five tracks of this actually quite literally named album): In some ways, this is a followup program to Lewon's previous Straight from the Heart, although the music is centered a short while later. In particular, while the former also includes later transcriptions — & an unusual (for its situation more than its music) Duo by two known composers — it continues to advance plectrum lute technique. Recorded only four years later, and after interpretations about which I'd already specifically noted advances in instrumental technique, it does so notably yet again, yielding what appears to be a very idiomatic rendering of this relatively secondary music. (Although such ideas on lute rendering would obtain increased currency in the sixteenth century, that would come to be without the plectrum....)

[19.4.2020]