Release Date: 31 January 2025
Label: Pan Classics
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7619990104631
Genres: Classical  Chamber Music  
Composer/Series: Mandora
Release Date: 31 January 2025
Label: Pan Classics
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7619990104631
Genres: Classical  Chamber Music  
Composer/Series: Mandora
Description
The mandora is a lute instrument that gradually disappeared with the advent of the guitar and has been completely forgotten since around 1820 - until today. The lutenist Jakub Mitrik has set himself the goal of reviving this instrument and its repertoire with this CD. The development of the mandora was a reaction to the baroque lute, which became increasingly complicated to play and had up to 14 courses of strings. It is tuned in a similar way to the later guitar and has six strings, the lower five of which are double-stringed. The mandora was particularly popular in monasteries, especially among the Benedictines. There, the mandora was valued as a solo and chamber music instrument due to its handiness and versatility. The archives of these monasteries also contain a very varied repertoire specially tailored to the mandora, which Jakub MitrIk and his Biber Consort present here for the first time. This is chamber music in a wide variety of formations, in which the mandora takes on the role of a fully-fledged partner that goes far beyond mere basso continuo accompaniment. With his selection, MitrIk presents a multi-coloured and sensitively performed CD programme that reflects the lightness of the late Baroque and early Classical periods and allows musical life in the monasteries outside the liturgy to shine in an unusual light.
Tracklisting
Max Lorenz; Gertrude Grob-Prandl; Victor de Sabata
Trio Wanderer; Eric Le Sage; Marc Coppey
Arte Minima; Pedro Sousa Silva
Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor
Biber Consort, Jakub Mitrik
Soloists, Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Joseph Keilberth
The Royal Wind Music
Anita Cerquetti
Engegard Quartet
Piano Duo Adrienne Soos & Ivo Haag
Voices of Singapore Children's Choir; Voices of Singapore Ladies' Choir; Voices of Singapore Men's
Valerie Kim; Brian Hong; Daniel Hass; Han Chen; The Renaissance String Quartet
Trio Orelon
Trio Bronte
The Brahms Trio
Richard Blackford