Special offer. Late Night Lute
Matthew Wadsworth (lute)
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2017, Editor's Choice
Wadsworth's playing is sensitive and polished throughout, and he draws sumptuous velvet sounds from both the 10-course lute and the 14-course theorbo...Wadsworth's renditions of The Miller's...
Special offer. Late Night Lute
Matthew Wadsworth (lute)
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Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, August 2017, Editor's Choice
Wadsworth's playing is sensitive and polished throughout, and he draws sumptuous velvet sounds from both the 10-course lute and the 14-course theorbo...Wadsworth's renditions of The Miller's...
About
Inspired by the ambience of the evening concerts he gave at various festivals,Matthew Wadsworth’s new disc is a relaxing programme of music for lute and theorbo.
Matthew Wadsworth has earned a reputation as one of the world’s finest lutenists. Working in the UK, Europe and North America as a soloist and chambermusician, he has appeared at most major concert halls and festivals, and can often be heard on radio, both in live performance and recordings.
Born in 1974, Matthew studied lute at London’s Royal Academy of Music with Nigel North, after which he spent a year at the Royal Conservatory ofMusic in The Hague.
Features the newly commissioned work of ‘The Miller’s Tale’, composed by Stephen Goss for Matthew Wadsworth, which received its world premiere on 6 March 2017 at London’s Wigmore Hall.
Also Includes works by Philip Rosseter, John Downland, Robert Johnson, Alessandro Piccinini, and Johammees Kapsberger.
Matthew Wadsworth’s previous solo disc released on Deux-Elles in 2003 ’14 Silver Strings’ DXL1044) was named Gramophone Editor’s Choice.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineAugust 2017Editor's Choice
August 2017
Wadsworth's playing is sensitive and polished throughout, and he draws sumptuous velvet sounds from both the 10-course lute and the 14-course theorbo...Wadsworth's renditions of The Miller's Tale and the challenging variations on La Jeune Fillette by Piccinini are quite masterful.
August 2017
The playing in this little theatre of shadows is of course ravishing throughout, with Wadsworth again demonstrating his appreciation of the lute’s propensity for subtle gradations of tone and timbre...That he ends with two of Dowland’s most profound utterances, thus making us end where we began, is further testament to his refined sensibility.
