From Heaven on Earth – Lute Music from Kremsmunster Abbey

Hubert Hoffmann

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With P. Ferdinand Fischer (-Pecheur) may a new discovery in the field of high baroque lute music finally reach the light of public attention. Although he was known as a lute player in the Benedictine Abbey of Kremsmünster and as the scribe of one of its books of tablatures, he has hardly been considered as a composer. Indeed the bald details of his life are of little help here. Born in 1651 in Kuchl, he matriculated at the university of Salzburg in 1661, entered Kremsmünster in 1677. After his theological studies in Salzburg he was annointed as a priest in Linz, was professor in the high schools of the Abbey 1683-86, and subsequently prior until 1691, converted two muslims in 1687 and lived until his death as a priest in Buchkirchen near Wels. His obituary emphasises the variety of his abilities, and chronicles from as late as 1777 cite his mastery of solo lute playing (in simplici testudine scite pulsanda magister), that sweetened the loneliness of his monk’s cell (cellae solitudinem dulciter temperare nouit). He will have brought his mastery in lute-playing with him from Salzburg.

Tracklist

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1.
Partita in D Minor - Prelude
02:00
2.
Partita in D Minor - Aria
01:27
3.
Partita in D Minor - Aria
01:46
4.
Partita in D Minor - Aria
02:41
5.
Partita in D Minor - Passagio
00:54
6.
Partita in D Minor - Aria
01:15
7.
Partita in D Minor - Sarabande
01:52
8.
Partita in D Minor - Gigue
01:51
9.
Partita in D Minor - Retirada
03:55
10.
Partita in C Major - Allemande
03:48
11.
Partita in C Major - Double
03:38
12.
Partita in C Major - Gavotte
00:37
13.
Partita in C Major - Menuette
00:41
14.
Partita in C Major - Canarie
02:28
15.
Partita in C Major - Chaccogne
07:39
16.
Partita in C Minor - Prelude
01:26
17.
Partita in C Minor - Allemande
03:39
18.
Partita in C Minor - Courante
01:56
19.
Partita in C Minor - Passagaglia
14:19
20.
Partita in C Minor - Retirada
03:30

Total time: 01:01:22

Additional information

Label

SKU

CC72740

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Artists

Composers

Genres

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Cables

Siltech Mono – Crystal

Digital Converters

dCS

Editing Software

Pyramix

Mastering Engineer

Bert van der Wolf

Mastering Room

Avalon Acoustic

Microphones

Sonodore

Original Recording Format

Producer

Bert van der Wolf

Recording Engineer

Bert van der Wolf

Recording location

Galaxy Studio, Mol, Belgium

Recording Software

Merging

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DSD64

Release DateNovember 4, 2016

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A beautiful and sensitive recording of some exquisite compositions  recently discovered in the library of the Benedictine Abbey of Kremsmünster in Upper Austria. Hubert Hoffman is clearly a master of the 11-string lute, as heard here in this superb recording engineered by Bert van der Wolf (owner and principal recording engineer at Northstar Recordings). (…) If you have any affinity for music of the lute, I heartily commend this recording to you. The performances are those of a master on the lute, the recording quality is that of a master recording engineer applying some of the highest skills in the industry.

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