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Recordings are listed in alphabetical order by ensemble or lutenist last name.
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Recordings Sold by the LSA
Sweet Division
Venere Lute Quartet
A variety of sparkly music for lute quartet with both historical and modern arrangements included. Issued on the LSA label.
Please email Nancy Carlin at administrator@lutesocietyofamerica.org to purchase.
Palestrina’s Lute
Venere Lute Quartet
Arrangements of music by the great Renaissance composer Giovanni Luigi da Palestrina for lute quartet. Issued on the LSA label.
Please email Nancy Carlin at administrator@lutesocietyofamerica.org to purchase.
Airy Entertainments
Venere Lute Quartet
Settings of music from English masques were published in numerous Continental sources. This delightful music is at the center of a new recording project of the Venere Lute Quartet.
Please email Nancy Carlin at administrator@lutesocietyofamerica.org to purchase.
Member Recordings
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S.L. Weiss recital and J.S. Bach Recital
Anton Birula – 13 course baroque lute
Includes S.L.Weiss Sonata No. 23 in F sharp minor and J.S. Bach Suite in D major, BWV 1012
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The Lute Books of Orazio Albani da Urbino
Andrea Damiani – lute
From the legendary Albani’s library in Urbino, a collection of pieces, many of which unpublished up today, by anonymous composers and by the two celebrated Roman lutenists of the time: Vincenzo Pinti and Lorenzo Tracetti
Purchase here or send an email to damiani.and@gmail.com.
John Dowland
Grace Davidson & David Miller
Grace Davidson returns to disc on Signum with an intimate disc of Dowland’s first book of lute songs, accompanied by David Miller. Blending melancholy with wit in his writing for both lute and voice, John Dowland’s songs have continued to enchant audiences and singers for nearly 400 years.
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Bellerofonte Castaldi: Battaglia d’amore
Il Furioso: Gian Paolo Fagotto, tenor; David Dolata & Victor Coelho, lutes
Songs of love: Castaldi’s settings of his own poetry
Virtuosic duos for tiorbino and theorbo, Modena (1622) and Venice (1623)
George Frideric Handel
Il Furioso: Robert Crowe, soprano; David Dolata & Victor Coelho, lutes
The Complete ‘Amen,’ ‘Alleluia’ Arias, HWV269–77 with music by Church, Croft, Pittoni, and Anon.
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Libro secondo d’arie
Il Furioso: Gian Paolo Fagotto, tenor; David Dolata & Victor Coelho, lutes
Songs of Human and Divine Love
(Rome, 1623)
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La Brebis Galante
Anna Kowalska – 11-course lute
Works by Gallot, Mouton, de Visee, Forqueray, Marais
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Luteduo Plays J.S. Bach
Anna Kowalska, Anton Birula – 13 course baroque lutes
First ever complete CD with J.S.Bach duets
Luteduo Plays Weiss
Anna Kowalska, Anton Birula – 13 course baroque lutes
Luteduo vision of works by S.L. Weiss
Baroque Insight (Luteduo)
Anna Kowalska – baroque guitar, Anton Birula – theorbo
Luteduo arrangements of works by Piccinini, Kapsberger, Murcia, Sanz, de Visee, Forqueray.
Baroque Lute Duets (Luteduo)
Anna Kowalska & Anton Birula – baroque lutes
Music for two baroque lutes by Gaultier, Du Fault, Lawes, Marais, Falckenhagen and Hagen.
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Medieval Lady
Susan Sandman and Derwood Crocker
Early music by woman composers, lute duets and dances performed by Elizabethan Conversation with guest soprano Andrea Folan.
John Dowland
David Miller & Grace Davidson
Grace Davidson returns to disc on Signum with an intimate disc of Dowland’s first book of lute songs, accompanied by David Miller. Blending melancholy with wit in his writing for both lute and voice, John Dowland’s songs have continued to enchant audiences and singers for nearly 400 years.
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Le Ali del Liuto
Matteo Rigoni, 7-course Lute and Baroque Guitar
Part of the project “Le Ali di Mantova”, the record proposes tunes to be used during book reading and showing.
Music from the Castiliono Lute Book (1536)
Phillip Rukavina, 6-course
Music from Joanambrosio Dalza’s Inavolatura di Lauto (1508) and Vincenzo Capirola’s Lute Book (1517). Performed on lutes by Grant Tomlinson and Malcolm Prior.
Ala Spagnola
Phillip Rukavina, vihuela da mano
Music by Luis Milan, Alonso Mudarra, Luis de Narváez, Vincenzo Capirola and more. Performed on a vihuela da mano build by Daniel Larson.
Italian Lute Music 1508-1517
Phillip Rukavina, 6-course lute
Rukavina performs early 16th century Italian lute music by Joanambrosio Dalza and Vincenzo Capirola.
Dutch Light: The Music of Nicolas Vallet
Phillip Rukavina, 10-course lute
Rukavina performs music by the 17th century Dutch lutenists Nicolas Vallet. The music is a blend of the best qualities of early Baroque Dutch, English and French music.
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Bedlam
Kayleen Sánchez – Soprano
Laudon Schuett – Renaissance Lute
Songs and solo lute music from the 16th Century.
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Music For Mandora
Gabor Tokódi, mandora
One of the leading lutenists of his native Hungary, Gabor Tokódi active in the field of early music both as soloist and member of period instrument ensembles. This recording presents music especially written for mandora by Giuseppe Brescianello and Two suites from an anonymous composer, the manuscripts of which were found in the archive of an Hungarian monastery.
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Ornythology: Byrd and Friends
Venere Lute Quartet
The music of the beloved Elizabethan composer William Byrd and his contemporaries (John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tallis, etc.) as arranged for lute quartet. Hear the intricate interplay of four outstanding lutenists performing on soprano, alto, tenor, and bass lutes.