Rating: 3/5
Review:
Not the best Weiss recording
I'm afraid I'm not all that taken with this disc. I like Weiss's music very much so I was
looking forward to it, but both the performance and recording are a bit
problematic.
Weiss was a rough contemporary of Bach and wrote a large
amount of very fine lute music, of which this is a pretty decent
selection. However, the music needs a
variety of approaches, including a lightness of step and a sense of space
sometimes, neither of which it gets here.
Alexander Suetin is plainly a very good lutenist, but he invests
everything with great intensity which works well enough in some more dramatic
or emotional movements. However, these
are suites of dances; some of them are light and full of joy, but the whole
thing has a terribly serious feel to it which gets pretty wearing after a
while. This isn't helped by a recording
which sounds as though it was made in a lavatory – echoey but bleak and
cold. The overall effect really isn't
good.
There are plenty of very fine recordings of Weiss by Robert
Barto, Jakob Lindberg and others.
Personally, I'd recommend trying them rather than this; it's worthy but
not all that enjoyable.
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