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Wax Chandlers Hall
6 Gresham Street
City of London
London
EC2V 7AD
England
Programme
Hans Gerle – Jesus Christus, unser Heiland
Josquin Desprez – Mille regretz
Nicolas Vallet – Regia Pietas 1619 (Psalms and Preludes for lute)
Hans Neusidler – Ein guter gassenaer
Esias Reusner – Neue Lauten Fruchte 1676 (Ciacona)
Sylvius Leopold Weiss – Fantasie
Sylvius Leopold Weiss – Tombeau sur le mort de M Comt de Logy
Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata no.1 in G minor for lute, BWV 1001 (arr. Weyrauch/Kenny)
Performers
Eliizabeth Kenny – lute
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Programme Note
Elizabeth Kenny is one of Europe's very finest exponent of the renaissance and baroque lute, both of which will feature in this mouth-watering recital. The lute was also a favoured instrument in Bach's time, some 200 years after Luther's Reformation began in 1517.
Martin Luther decided to learn the lute in 1503. His and many other households regularly gathered to sing sacred melodies and psalms as a family group. But another way of reflecting on sacred texts was to be found under the fingertips. Luther’s contemporaries Hans Gerle and Hans Neusidler turned chorale melodies into lute pieces with the same freedom and sense of ownership with which they set famous secular madrigals and chansons: singing the words in one’s head while playing alone.
This programme explores the works of the players Luther admired, as well as the composers – such as Josquin – from whom they borrowed.
