Konrad Ragossnig: Music for Lute (4 CD, APE)

Performer: Konrad Ragossnig
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 4 CD
Format: APE (image+cue)
Label: Archiv
Size: 1.08 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

CD 1
I. England – Angleterre
John Dowland (1562-1626):
01. The King of Denmark’s Gaillard
02. Lachrimae Antiquae Pavan
03. Fantasia
04. My Lady Hundson’s Puffe
05. Melhancoly gaillard
06. Mrs. Winter’s Jump
07. Semper Dowland semper dolens
08. The Earl of Essex Gaillard
09. Foelorne Hope fancy

Daniel Batchelar (ca. 1610):
10. Mounsiers Almaine

Baruch Bulman (ca. 1600):
11. Pavan

Francis Cutting (ca. 1600):
12. Almain
13. Greensleeves
14. Walsingham
15. The Squirrel’s Toy

Anon.:
16. Sir John Smith his Almaine

Thomas Morley (1557-1602):
17. Pavan

Robert Johnson (ca. 1580-1634):
18. Alman

Anthony Holborne (gest. 1602):
19. Gaillard

II. Italien – Italy – Italie
Vincenzo Capirola (1474-?):
20. Ricercar I
21. Ricercar XIII

Francesco Spinacino (ca. 1470-ca. 1507):
22. Ricercare

Vincenzo Capirola:
23. Ricercar II
24. Ricercare X

Francesco da Milano (1497-ca. 1543):
25. Fantasia

CD 2
Simone Molinaro (ca. 1565-ca. 1613):
01. Fantasia X
02. Fantasia IX
03. Fantasia I
04. Saltarello – Ballo detto il Conte Orlando – Saltarello

Giulio Cesare Barbetta (1540-ca. 1603):
05. Moresca detta la Canarie

Giovanni Antonio Terzi (1500):
06. Ballo tedesco e francese – Tre parti di gagliarde

Cesare Negri (1535-?):
07. Lo spagnoletto – Il bianco fiore

Santino Garsi da Parma (1500)
08. Aria del Gran Duca – La Cesarina – la Mutia – La ne mente per la gola – Gagliarda Manfredina – ballo del Serenissimo Duca di Parma – Corenta

III. Spanien – Spain – L’Espagne
Luis de Milán (ca.1500 – 1561):
09. Pavana del primero y segundo rono
10. Pavana II del tercero y quarto tono
11. Pavana III del quinto y sexto tono
12. Pavana IV del septimo y octavo tono
13. Pavana V del octavo tono
14. Pavana VI del octavo tono
15. Fantasia X del primero y segundo tono
16. Fantasia XVI del quinto y sexto tono
17. Fantasia XII del primero y segundo tono
18. Fantasia XI del primero y segundo tono

Alonso Mudarra (ca. 1510-1580):
19. Pavana de Alexandre
20. Gallarda
21. Romanesca: O guardame las vacas
22. (Deferencias sobre) Conde claros
23. Fantasia que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico

Luis de Narváez (1500):
24. (Deferencias sobre) Guardame las vacas
25. Mille regres. la cancion del Emperador
26. Fantasia
27. Baxa de contrapunto

CD 3
IV. Polen/Ungarn – Poland/Hungary – La Pologne/La Hongrie
Diomedes Cato (ca. 1570-ca. 1602):
01. Praeludium
02. Galliarda I
03. Galliarda II
04. Favorito

Anonym:
05. Balletto Polacho

Jakub Polak (ca. 1605)
06. Praeludium

Albert Dlugoraj (ca. 1557-1619)
07. Chorea polonica
08. fantasia
09. Finale
10. Villanella
11. Carola Polonesa
12. Villanella
13. Finale
14. Kowaly
15. Finale

Valentin Bakfark (1507-1576):
16. Fantasie
17. Fantasie
18. Fantasie
19. Fantasie

Hans Judenkonig (ca. 1445-1526):
20. Hoff dantz
21. Ellend bringt peyn

Hans Newsidler (1508-1563)
22. Der Junden tantz
23. Preambel
24. Welscher tantz Wascha mesa

Landgraf Moritz von Hessen (1572-1632):
25. Pavane

Anon.:
26. Der gestraifft Danntz – Der Gessenhauer darauff

Mattheus Waissel (1540-1602):
27. Fantasia
28. Deudtscher tantz

Sebastian Ochsenkhun (1521-1574):
29. Innsbruck, ich mu? dich lassen

CD 4
V. Niederlande – Netherlands – Les Pys-Bas
Emanuel Adriaessen (1550-1604):
01. Fantasia
02. Courante
03. Branle simple de Poictou
04. Branle Englese

Gregorio Howet (ca. 1600?):
05. Fantasie

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621):
06. Psalm 5
07. Psalm 23

Joachim van den Hove (1567-1620):
08. Galliarde

Nicolas Vallet (ca. 1583-1642):
09. Prelude
10. Galliarde
11. Slaep, soete, slaep

VI. Frankreich – France – La France
Pierre Attaignant (ca. 1494-1552):
12. Tant que vivray (Chanson)
13. Basse dance “Sansserre”
14. Branle gay “C’est mon amy”
15. Basse dance
16. Destre amoureux (Chanson)
17. Haulberroys

Adrien Le Roy (ca. 1520-1598):
18. Passameze

Robert Ballard (ca. 1575-1650):
19. Entree de Luth I-II-III
20. Courante
21. Branles de village

Jean-Baptiste Besard (ca. 1567-ca. 1625):
22. Branle
23. gagliarda
24. Branle gay
25. Gagliarda vulgo dolorata
26. Allemande
27. Air de cour “J’ai trouve sur l’herbe assise”
28. Volte
29. Branle – Branle gay
30. Guillemette
31. Ballet
32. Pass’e mezo
33. Chorea rustica

Performers:
Konrad Ragossnig, lute

Recording date:
Plenarsaal der Residenz, Munich, [05/1975 (I.), 10/1973 (II.), 4/1974 (III.), 10/1974 (IV.), 02/1975 (V.), 06/1975 (VI.)]

Four Discs of Solo Lute Works

Ragossnig, now in his 80s I presume, recorded these works in the early 70s. He also recorded with the Ulsamer Collegium on Archiv and Deutswche Grammofon labels.

These discs cover England, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Germany, The Netherlands and France. Each disc is 68min to slightly over 70min. of music.

It is pretty much all there. Kemp’s Jig is missing from England, it is with one of the Archiv renaissance discs, titled Terpsichore.

Recorded sound is better than the Julian Bream 1950s recordings.

These were pioneering works, and there are more players these days. Not that much better than the 70s era, I would say, but we can’t have too much lute recorded.