COURANTE (a-minor)
this cute and easy piece by E. REUSNER is among my favorites for decades.
please, read all 4 parts of the story and excuse my rough english and playing - beeing a bloody amateur in both matters -
with the credo: baroque music simply makes happy.
THIRD PART of the REUSNER Story
Esaias Reusner (1636 - 1679) is THE forefather of the central european lute tradition of the 18th century (with S. L. Weiss as the most prominent member).
tought by a french lutenist, Reusner is also the direct connector between french style (the Gaultier´s and others) and the mentioned wellknown later luthenists. he also established the scheme oft the baroque "Suite" with the basic sequence Allemande-Courante-Sarabande-Gige.
by the way, this was not J. J. Froberger, as written by some musicologists, because Froberger wrote in his autographs the old french sequence: with or without the Gigue at 2nd position and in almost all cases with the Sarbande as the final movement. after his death, Frobergers pieces had been "arranged" into the "classical" sequence by several publishers.
read the FOURTH PART and listen to the Sarabande and the Gavotte
The complete "Suite in a-minor" (with all movements with repetions, and without "copyprotecting fade in/out) is available on CD (profesional studio recording) with sonatas for CELLO (Jacchini, de Fesch, Schaffrath), VIOLIN (Corelli), RECORDER (Pepusch), and the BAROQUE LUTE (Reusner, Anonymus, Weiss), please, visit the website www.duocontinuo.de or check our other videos
