Baron: Music for Lute Solo & Lute and Recorder

This new recording presents works for lute solo, or in combination with other instruments: solo sonatas, a concerto for lute, flute and cello, a concerto for lute and recorder, a concerto for lute, oboe and cello and other works.

Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron
Artists: Bernhard hofstötter (lute), Bozhena Korchynska (recorder), Mariya Bil (cello)

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Though the music of Ernst Gottlieb Baron (1696–1760) is scarcely known to the wider public, the complete edition of his surviving compositions presented by Jan W.J. Burgers in 2005 (which forms the basis for the recordings on this CD) offers an excellent opportunity to study and perform the works of this late Baroque master and restore them to the status they deserve.

Though it can be assumed a large portion of his work was lost, with around a dozen suites for solo lute and ten ensemble pieces with obbligato lute, Baron’s extant oeuvre is nonetheless substantial.

In the solo compositions, we predominantly find short, mostly two-part pieces in a late Baroque idiom. While these ‘simple’ suites, likely intended for pupils, offer little justification for Baron’s contemporaries having ranked him among the most important German composers of his day, the solo compositions also include works of a very different quality. The first four movements of the Suite [Partie] in F recorded here draw on wide-ranging melodic arcs and expressive modulations. The Suite [Sonata] in B flat is a special case: it is attributed by the original copyist to Silvius Leopold Weiss, and to Baron only by a later copyist (apparently J.G.I. Breitkopf). But it has been rightly pointed out that the presumed authorship of Weiss does not stand up to a stylistic comparison.

Baron’s ensemble works include eight suites or sonatas for lute and melody instrument (recorder, transverse flute, violin or oboe), with a cello at times added as a bass part. In some of these works the treatment of the lute part is particularly virtuosic, assigning the lute an important role in the melodic composition. Baron’s surviving chamber music shows him as a master of the ‘galant’ style and offers attractive and original music from a time in which the lute was already losing ground before disappearing completely from concert life in the second half of the 18th century, soon after Baron’s death.

Tracklist:
Concerto for Lute and Recorder in D Minor:
00:00:00 I. Adagio
00:02:01 II. Allegro
00:03:54 III. Siciliana
00:06:10 IV. Gigue

Concerto for¬ Lute, Flute and Cello in G Major:
00:08:25 I. Concerto
00:11:07 II. Largo
00:13:22 III. Allegro

Sonata for Lute solo in B-Flat Major:
00:15:24 I. Fantasia
00:17:49 II. Allegro
00:20:28 III. Bourée
00:22:02 IV. Aria
00:24:33 V. Rondeau
00:26:44 VI. Tempo di menuet

Sonata for Lute and Flute in G Major:
00:29:04 I. Allemande
00:31:52 II. Courante
00:34:18 III. March
00:36:06 IV. Menuet avec trio
00:38:42 V. Loure
00:40:40 VI. Gigue

Partie for Lute Solo in F Major:
00:42:37 I. Entrée
00:46:38 II. Poco allegro
00:48:22 III. Sarabande adagio
00:52:01 IV. Menuet

Concerto for Lute, Oboe and Cello in C Minor:
00:53:52 I. Concerto
00:56:25 II. Molto adagio
00:58:53 III. Vivace

Duet for Lute and Flute in G Major:
01:01:40 I. Allegro
01:04:12 II. Adagio
01:06:08 III. Presto

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