Composer: Johann Adolph Hasse, Silvius Leopold Weiss
Performer: Jadran Duncumb
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Audax
Catalogue: ADX13713
Release: 2018
Size: 1.07 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Hasse: Sonata No. 4
01. I. Allegretto
02. II. Allegro
Weiss: Sonata in D minor, WeissSW 35
03. I. Allemande. Adagio
04. II. Courante
05. III. Paysanne
06. IV. Sarabande. Adagio
07. V. Menuet
08. VI. Allegro
09. Weiss: Prelude in C minor
Hasse: Sonata in E flat major
10. I. Allegro
11. II. Moderato
12. III. Presto
13. Weiss: Passacaglia in D major
Jadran Duncumb won the String Category of the “BBC Young Musician of the Year” as a guitar player and went on to study at the Royal College of Music. This recording from the Audax label features the Lute Sonatas from Weiss and Hasse. Dresden’s orchestra in the first half of the 18th century shone above all the other European orchestras, and two of its brightest stars were Silvius Leopold Weiss and Johann Adolph Hasse. Although regarded as highly as Bach, Handel, Telemann and indeed Hasse during his lifetime and in the years after his death, later Weiss’s reputation suffered due to the fact he dedicated his life to an instrument that soon became obsolete. Only since the tentative revival of the German baroque-lute in the latter part of the last century has it again been possible to appreciate his genius. This CD combines his astonishing and rarely-played late D-minor Sonata with two inventive and unheard Sonatas by Hasse, adapted by an unnamed lutenist and surviving now in a manuscript in Leipzig. Despite being written within a few years of each other by two musicians who worked together regularly and must have been close judging by Weiss naming his son after his colleague, their respective sonatas are very different in style. Jadran Duncumb not only won the String Category of the “BBC Young Musician of the Year” but also won 1st prize at the “Maurizio Pratola” lute competition in L’Aquila, Italy. He regularly plays with the Ensemble Diderot.
World premiere recordings