Robert de Visée's Suite in Dm - OK, it is the most popular suite by the French guitarist, and yes, he did write other fine music. I will get round to recording more eventually, but I offer no excuses for recording the Dm suite first, as it is a favourite of mine. Such great fun to play, but deceptively difficult!
I have presented a recording of a complete performance, which makes for a soundfile of under 8 megabites, eleven and a half minutes. I hope you don't feel this is too long for one file, but I really didn't want to split up the pieces. Here and there, I like one movement to start before the other has died away.
The recording: 5c guitar by Alexander Batov. Recording date: 19 April, 2008. Strings: Aquila - Nylgut. Bourdon on 4th.
Gaspar Sanz - Here I used no bourdon at all, so the lowest note is the third string, G. That's what the man asked for, but it does lead to some odd leaps. Once you get used to it, though, it all sounds fine. Lantururu appears in the Scottish Balcarres lute manuscript under the title, Canarios.
The recording: 5c guitar by Alexander Batov. Recording date: 24 April, 2008. Strings: Aquila - Nylgut.
Españoletas added 25th April, 2008.
Al que gustare de falsas, ponga cuido en estas cromaticas (For the player that likes flourishes, pay attention to these chromatic ones) and Fuga 2, al aire de jiga added 30 April, 2008
Portuguese guitar pieces - from the Coimbra 'viola' (guitar) manuscript. Rogerio Budasz did the main work transcribing these pieces from the original manuscript as part of his doctoral dissertation: The Five-Course Guitar (Viola) In Portugal and Brazil in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries, 2001. The pieces are notated without time signals and are often a little odd in places, clearly stemming from a tradition of improvisation. I've arranged them as best I could. Terantela has only four bars of chords and one variation, to which I have added four more.