February 4, 2010

“SHEER STRANGENESS”

Jacob Lindberg, lutenist
Silvius Weiss Lute Music II
Sonatas No. 39 in C major and No. 50 in B flat major
Tombeau sur la mort de M. Comte de Logy
BIS-CD 1534

“Lindberg’s genius is not to allow impeccable scholarship to restrict his considerable imagination”
--Gramophone

“This is very fine Weiss-playing indeed, Lindberg capturing the melancholy grandeur, as well as the sheer strangeness, of the Tombeau while astutely assessing the tonal contrasts (in a light/dark sense) implicit in the varying tempi and textures of the various dance movements and thus heightening the tension – all the while exploiting every resource of his instrument.”
--William Yeoman, Gramophone January 2010

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