Rating: 4/5
Review:
Very enjoyable
This is a very enjoyable disc of Late Renaissance/Early Baroque lute
music.
Robert Ballard is a
new composer to me. The music is rewarding; it doesn’t have the
emotional intensity of Dowland, say, nor the inventiveness of
Kapsberger, but it has an elegant charm which makes it well worth
listening to. Robert Kalb (also new to me) is plainly a fine
lutenist who handles some pretty virtuosic passages with no hint of
strain and gives the music a refined grace which suits it very well.
The recorded sound
is very good and I can recommend this disc warmly.
