And,nothing sounds like a lute … I will gladly wait for the tuning …

@@MaiikaK Totally agreed!!!😎☝🌍...

@@MaiikaKA well set-up instrument doesn't need 'that' much tuning, especially if left a few hours to acclimatise to a new venue.

the guitar 'came in '.

The instrument went out of use because of the change in compositional style.

I dislike the word fashion regarding instruments, the lute repertoire is a bit limited that is why, i am a classical guitar student, i love the cg sound but when i reach a certain level i will jump to lute or oud... both of the are great instruments, you have to love renaissance baroque and classical music for playing a lute, guitar jumps to romantic, Latin and latest compositions...just more flexible than the lute, but in baroque repertoire lute is unbeatable.

It's using quite much. But not as guitar of course ;)

I think its a combination of factors. Trends in music were shifting. One explanation could be technology. More powerful, effective and 'easier' instruments become more popular. If you ever try to play a lute, they are just egregiously difficult instruments to play. It takes a lot of effort just to make a basic, nice sound on a baroque lute. In other words, the learning curve is quite steep. People don't cope well with lots of frustration accompanied by little reward. I was playing licentiate level repertoire on classical guitar before switching focus to baroque lute and its taken about 4 years of practice to be vaguely competent. Though if I was practising 3-4 hours a day it probably would have taken much less time.

I do gardening with this music!

Deluded? No, no, no... deLUTEd, maybe (;

Michael Anthony the more wine, the more meaningful the changes ☝🏻

you have no idea. I would have paid to be there..to be part of it. but..oh well..

Its Better than listening Madonna or Britney or Hillary anyhow...

Berkeley (to me) was the chance to larp and think you're changing the world before actually having to go out into it and realize, alas, that most of what's there is there for a reason. Cheers, pal!

Love your appreciation of life! Cause it is indeed beautiful!

I can't find this anywhere even with the authors name. Edit: is it your own?

@@fenrir2616 Hi Fen, I wrote that while listening to this on a night walk. I hope life is treating you well my friend.

@@NME10E Thank you, it's a wonderful piece. It really chimed with me.

Michael Schäffer's recording of French music may have been equalled by Hopkinson Smith's recording of Mouton, but, it has never been surpassed, and is generally without peer. The only way to explain such a mastery is that he must have been a master of it in another life, for musical talent and general intellectual and educational analysises simply cannot explain this.

@@beasheerhan4482 You mean never been surpassed? Good comment.

@@franklandsman3436 Yes, Dear Frank, 'surpasst' is what I meant to say! Thank you for your kind word to me.

Yes Sir! Oui Monsieur! Me2!

Agreed! Merci beaucoup! @williamboussaton @ lucmatte...

......ok

And may I take this opportunity of praise you provide to spell the artist's name the proper way, so that he will not one day disappear completely from our memories because of all the variations that are around: his name is Michael Schäffer

Lol

Yes, Michael Schaffer was extremely gifted in his approach to interpretation. well over 40 years have passed since this recording and not a single lutenist has surpassed this recording, and very few have made a recording that could be considered a peer of it. In my view, only Hopkinson Smith's recording of Vieux Gaultier is a kind of 'equal' to this.

The Gauls gave us so much!

@Jack T less is more then.

@@jbscornerstore lol, that's your spin on it, ok.

It's French baroque.

As I understand it, the word 'lute' comes from 'l'oud'. :)

wonderful

Yes, Dear 19, but, not only is the playing great, the lute, by Nico Van der Waals, is the deepest cavern of poetry.

@@shawnmendrek3544 i could never ever disagree with your statement . i know how difficult it is to be a world class lutenist such as the player performing now. being able to play at this very high level meant a decade or two of intense learning and practice , and having keen interest in luthier instruments since their early years. of learning . i just love this performance and appreciate it. takk skal du ha . skal..

@@fancytalkingsoup96 of course van humpanstan and ty for the "tedium of amorphous relaxation music..... ` so true.. made me really laugh......

Caius I agree ! Great with Roleplay game to !

+Caius and great while studying physics!! (like me right now, feeling genius)

+Joan Sanmarti Video Editing Great when studying economics too lol

+Zhanna P No, the lute is definitely made for studying literature and anthropology :P

M E H Music literally suits everything, even for sociopaths "learning" and "preparing" for crazy stuff :P

I agree, Dear Baldwin - Michael Schaffer is irreplacebale. Very grateful to have his two recordings.

mariaotxandio, if you have time, could you please tell some of the story from the liner notes. At least the lute and its maker. I am now looking for this album thanks to TheGloryofMusic. Thank you.

Michael Schäffer was a german lutenist and a founder of the modern lute school revival. He teached at the Schola Basiliensis in Switzerland. He was the teacher of Hopkinson Smith and Robert Barto. François Dufaut (ca1605? - ca 1670?) was one of the more representative lutenist of the french "style brisé" (broken style) school during the 17th c..

Michael Schäffer died in 1978, at the early age of 41. This excellent work here was his last record. The early music community deeply mourned his death.

frenchiecocorico1 Michael Schäffer was indeed a german lutenist and one of the founders of the modern lute school revival. He taught at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. His college and very good friend (and fellow student with Walter Gerwig) Eugen Müller-Dombois, who taught at the Scola Cantorum Basiliensis was the teacher of Robert Barto, Paul O'Dette, Anthony Bailes and Hopkinson Smith amongst others. Schäffer's most important pupils are Konrad Junghähnel, Leif Karlson, Nigel North and Robby Faverey. On this recording ( made 7 months before his untimely death of cancer) he plays an 11 course french lute made by Michael Lowe.

Lex van Sante www.lute-academy.be/docstore/JVHPioneers.pdf

I like Musik of Barock more than all compositions later . I think in that Time , (it begann with. Monteverdi and Shut up with Mozart.) After them Musik didn‘reach such a Quality , Deepnes , melodischen Express Ohne step Lower follow sometimes like Schubert ,Chopin and so on . But Nobody was so un

Ich war leider nicht fertig mit meinem Kommentar. Was ich zum Ausdruck bringen wollte, die Musik der Barockzeit Ihre „Musikalität“hat mE. Nichts Später - res je erreicht . Mein letztes Wort sollte „ uncomparible ( oder so ähnlich, mein Englisch verlässt mich ) lauten .

Will you play for me ?

And?

Good luck buying strings

@@CesarSandoval024 a pack of lute strings is like $7

@@AcceleratingUniverse goat gut strings???7 bux???

To my knowledge, in French, the term baroque is never used in the sense of grotesque but rather to designate only someone or something which surprises by its unexpected, bizarre character, or by its original, eccentric behaviour.

Muchas gracias, Lu Lein!