From Heaven on Earth - Lute Music from Kremsmunster Abbey

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From Heaven on Earth - Lute Music from Kremsmunster Abbey

Label Challenge Classics

Artists 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.

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Total time: 01:01:22

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

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Additional Information

Label

Challenge Classics

SKU

CC72740

Qualities

DSD 64, FLAC 192 kHz, FLAC 96 kHz

Channels

2ch Stereo, 5ch Surround, 2ch Stereo & 5ch Surround

Artists

Hubert Hoffmann

Composers

Fischer

Genres

Classical

Original Recording Format

DSD 64

Release Date

November 04, 2016

Reviews

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Rushton Paul

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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From Heaven on Earth - Lute Music from Kremsmunster Abbey

From Heaven on Earth - Lute Music from Kremsmunster Abbey

€23,99 EUR

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