Paul O’Dette

Paul O’Dette – Rippe: Works for lute ‘Un perfaict sonneur de Leut’ (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:15:54 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

As refined as it is technically challenging, the lute music of Albert de Rippe (né Alberto da Ripa) is notable for its lush palette and dense brilliance -illustrated by the miniature masterpieces heard here: fantasias, chanson intabulations and dance arrangements (the three most popular genres of the Renaissance repertoire), which in the hands of Paul O’Dette become marvellously expressive and poetic.
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Paul O’Dette – My favorite Dowland (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:15:20 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

Paul O’Dette’s newly recorded personal selection of favourite pieces from the pinnacle of lute repertoire by „the Liszt of the lute“. Many of these pieces are melancholy but consistently lovely, enhanced by Paul O’Dette’s new lute: a 2008 8-course by Malcolm Prior, after Sixtus Rauwolf, Augsburg 1590. O’Dette’s 5-cd set of John Dowland was awarded no less than 5 Diaspasons and is due for reissue in the near future. His next release will be of Giovanni Antonio Terzi [1580-1620] provisionally titled ‘Unplayable chords’ ‘maketh a man to be wholly Musiques”
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