Paul Beier

Paul Beier – Il piu bel secreto et arte (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:43 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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In Venice, around 1517, a lutenist named Vidal embarked on producing a beautiful manuscript of lute tablature, emulating a style he already knew from other lute books published in the same city a few years earlier. His book comprises one hundred and forty pages of music written in numeric tablature consisting of forty-two compositions, preceded by a table of contents and six detailed introductory pages. Vincenzo Capirola is only slightly less of a mystery figure. It has been revealed that he was from Brescia, born into a wealthy mercantile family in 1474 and that he lived a long a life until he was in his mid-seventies. He is last recorded alive in 1548 when he was seventy-four. Documentary evidence confirms his presence in Brescia in 1489, 1498, and 1548. He was in Venice in 1517. His book is one of the most important sources of lute music of the early sixteenth century. Paul Beier performs close to one third of them on this CD.
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Paul Beier – What if a Day (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:15 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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A selection of Dowland’s solo lute music played by Paul Beier.
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