Beyond Vivaldi – Lute Concertos

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Label
Arcana
Release Date
April 3, 2026
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Joachim Bernard Hagen, Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, Karl Ignaz Augustin Kohaut, Johann Ludwig Krebs
    • PERFORMER
      Evangelina Mascardi, Estrovagante, Riccardo Doni
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 03, 2026
    • UPC
      3760195735930
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      A593
    • LABEL
      Arcana
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

Composed during Antonio Vivaldi's stay in Prague in 1729-30, the Concerto for Lute RV 93 is the most celebrated example of a repertoire almost totally neglected today, but once extremely popular in the German-speaking world, particularly in the Habsburg lands of Austria and Bohemia. After offering us a reference edition of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach (2022) and a representative anthology of the output of Silvius Leopold Weiss (2024), Evangelina Mascardi concludes her 18th-century trilogy by illuminating a fundamental, yet hitherto largely sidelined, chapter in the history of the lute. Alongside the Vivaldi concerto, which guitarists have embraced since the early 1960s, making it one of his most acclaimed works, we find four genuine and practically unknown gems, such as those composed by Joachim Bernard Hagen and Karl Ignaz Augustin Kohaut, now given their first recording. Accompanied by the Estrovagante Orchestra, directed by Riccardo Doni, Mascardi ventures into the rococo idiom, the stylistic context for the final virtuosic showpieces of an instrument boasting a rich history, but destined-in the space of just a few years-to be definitively eclipsed.