Conradi : Oeuvres Pour Luth

   in Early Music Today (Jun, 2014)
Conradi (d1747) is not a very well-known name, even among lute players, but this CD makes it clear from the outset this obscurity is for reasons of quantity, not quality; his published lute tablatures pass muster among the best German baroque repertoire, but do not even run to an hour’s music. To make a full programme, Moreno has also recorded here a ten-movement suite by Jan Antonin Losy (1650–1721), a lute player of an earlier generation, for whom Conradi’s famous contemporary Weiss wrote his famous Tombeau. Losy was an aristocrat who sat in bed to play the lute, born when the French baroque lute was at its height, and is steeped …