Edin Karamazov - (The) Lute is a Song
A collection of lute music that’s as unusual and distinctive as its player
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Composer or Director: Anonymous, Sting, Henry Purcell, Carlo Domeniconi, Leo Brouwer, George Frideric Handel, Giovanni Zamboni, Johann Sebastian Bach
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: L'Oiseau-Lyre
Magazine Review Date: 6/2009
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
Catalogue Number: 478 1077
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Paisaje Cubano con Rumba |
Leo Brouwer, Composer
Edin Karamazov, Lute Edin Karamazov, Guitar Leo Brouwer, Composer |
Alone with My Thoughts this Evening |
Sting, Composer
Edin Karamazov, Lute Edin Karamazov, Guitar Sting, Composer Sting, Singer |
Toccata and Fugue |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edin Karamazov, Lute Edin Karamazov, Guitar Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer |
Dido and Aeneas, Movement: When I am laid in earth |
Henry Purcell, Composer
Edin Karamazov, Lute Edin Karamazov, Guitar Henry Purcell, Composer Renée Fleming, Soprano |
Sonatas for Lute, Movement: Sonata in C minor |
Giovanni Zamboni, Composer
Edin Karamazov, Lute Edin Karamazov, Guitar Giovanni Zamboni, Composer |
Saul, Movement: O Lord, whose mercies |
George Frideric Handel, Composer
Andreas Scholl, Alto Edin Karamazov, Guitar Edin Karamazov, Lute George Frideric Handel, Composer |
Koyunbaba |
Carlo Domeniconi, Composer
Carlo Domeniconi, Composer Edin Karamazov, Guitar Edin Karamazov, Lute |
So Maki Se Rodila |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Edin Karamazov, Lute Edin Karamazov, Guitar |
Author: William Yeoman
Karamazov was always a great player – technically superb, musically imaginative and never afraid to take risks. But when he and Sting recorded an album of songs by English Renaissance master John Dowland (A/06), he found himself achieving almost superstar status overnight – no mean feat for a lutenist. Thus “The Lute is a Song” is in many ways designed to appeal to a broad, albeit relatively sophisticated, audience.
And appeal it should: after all, who can resist a fabulous, Eastern-sounding lute version of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor (certainly not all those Sky fans out there)? Or a lute version of Carlo Domeniconi’s Turkish delight Koyunbaba, normally heard on classical guitar but here given a mind-bending reappraisal on a 14-course Baroque lute? Purists aren’t forgotten either, a stylish account of Giovanni Zamboni’s Sonata and a superb rendering of Handel’s “Oh Lord, whose mercies numberless” from Saul with countertenor Andreas Scholl being among the choicest items in this vein.
And the most famous lutenist in the world? As Karamazov says to Sting in the latter’s amusing booklet-note, “You are, my friend…but it has nothing to do with talent!”
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