Johann Sebastian Bach himself did not play the lute. Could his lute music really have been played on the lute as specified – or was it intended all along for a lute harpsichord of the type found in Bach’s estate? Two of the suites on this recording are expressly stated ‘pour la Luth’ or ‘pour la luth o cembal’. However, some notes were not a feature of the common solo instrument of the era, the 13-string lute with a D minor tuning. Axel Wolf performs Bach’s lute music on a 14-string archlute, a theorbo lute – an instrument which could well have been played by one of the Italians employed at the court orchestra in Dresden. This recording is full of tranquillity and intimacy found by Axel Wolf prior to the recording in the little village church in Polditz/Saxony.