Release Date: 31 January 2025
Label: Pan Classics / Note1
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
Laefer Quartet
Lina Tur Bonet, Musica Alchemica
Christophe Coin; Orquesta Barroca De Sevilla
I Zefirelli
Francesco Galligioni
Filippo Mineccia; Orchestra Farnesiana
Anna Danilevskaia; Sollazzo Ensemble
Soloists; Ton Koopman; Amsterdam Baroque Choir & Orchestra
Ensemble der Salzburg Wind Philharmonic
Teresa Wakim; Carlotta Colombo; James Reese; Aaron Sheehan; Jesse Blumberg; Mauro Borgioni; Boston
Minguet Quartett; Michael Korstick
Marie Luise Werneburg; Sebastian Knebel; Anne Freitag; Margret Baumgartl; Alma Stolte
Benno Rabinof; Toscha Seidel; Harry Kaufman; Sylvia Rabinof
I Solisti Ambrosiani
Gleb Pysniak; Rojas Zubovas
Giulia Taccagni; Giacomo Carnevali
