Music of an exquisite 'interior' world; M. de Visee's chord progressions and melodic lines evoke emotional depths elegantly contained within unassailable structures. Beautiful story telling in the key of D Minor :)

Performance of an *ABSOLUTE BEAUTY.* Thank you very much for sharing your virtuosity with us.

Beautifully played! I can't get over the clarity of your playing and the concise elegance of the sound of the lute in this music. It's obvious that much reflection and consideration of the material is an integral part of your playing.

Si escucharamos más de esta música habría paz en el mundo

Putting the calm of this music into context.....around 9 am my time.....a super loud alarm went off on our cell phones in our little town where I live in Israel. It was sent out in error, they were testing the emergency alert system and some doofus hit the wrong button and scared the crap out of us in the town. So, hearing this lovely calming music comes at the best of all possible times. Thanks for the antidote to crazy.

I like so much your music, Mr. Rob, I came from very diferent world music, flamenc music for guitar, but always liked me something classic, mainly barroque music. Thanks you, how you play all, the instrumens, guitar, laúd..., Wonderfull, thecnique, and armony, for the sense, Spirit, and the soul, thank you, from Seville

Love it. Thank you.

a pleasure to listen to you ! all the best!

Beautiful music.

That was beautiful Rob, thank you 🙏🏼

Simply amazing, I love music played on the lute. Cheers from Tucson, Arizona, USA. Keep it up!

This is absolutely fantastic!

Amazing sound!!!!!

Great performance as usual, sir. Can't get enough of this French baroque lute music.

Magnifique!

I also love that the videoimage is builded like a renaissance tableau, the reflection of the glass, the furn of the cushion, the colour of the instrument, the whole composition of the picture. Great!

Piece of mind and great performance ✋❤

His soul is whole in the lute ! I admire you!

Beautiful playing and music Rob! Bravo!

Спасибо! Вы очень большой мастер!

That's wonderful!

Wow, beautifully written, & performed. Thanks for sharing your talents & music.

Beautiful playing and sound Rob. Agree about the stellar bass - well it's all stellar, but really love the bass sound!

Beautiful

Wonderful music! I can't get over the bass of these...

That is beautiful, Rob :-)

bravo

Great stuff man

Sublime :)

Wonderfull

ROCK!!!!!

Great performance on a magnificent music. Could you please tell me if the suite is in the De Saizenay manuscript ? Thanks and merci again for being such an inspiration...!

truly the saddest of all keys...

Incredible sound! Bravo. Is this suite in the MS Saizenay for d minor tuning? Or did you transcribe the theorbo version?

I'm curious about this 'single strung' 11-course lute. I mostly stick to 16th-17th century rep which I play on a 15-string 8-course lute. At what point did single string courses become common with the lute?

One of the few modern lute players that play with heart.

It was Beautiful Rob! Is this piece was originally written in theorbo tuning? (mean A tuning)

I just ordered a 1890s lite that was made in Germany made by Carl dreier. Ever heard of these models? Good work

What do you think of 6-string guitar-like lutes? Are there "wasted" frets that miss the sweet spot? I'd purchased a 12-string (6-course) Kobza hoping to get-what is probably-this sound, but, meh.

Where can I get a single course lute like this?

Great playing, sounds a bit like a theorbo in a, due to its single strung.

Is it just me, but it seems that Monsieur DeVisee does not get the credit he deserves as the genius that he was during the French Baroque.

Lovely. Single strung, eh?

This sounds wonderful, and certainly I have no objection to however you wish to string this lute or any lute, for that matter. The problem, however, is that the chief virtue of The Baroque Lute, with it's customary double-stringing, is in it's inability to speak anything clearly, which, though it's seems a terrible liability on the face of it, is, in fact, what makes it perhaps the greatest instrument ever invented in The West. Why? Because a double-strung lute has the power to draw you into it's hazy world and to get you busy pondering the infinity that might be there, whereas a single strung lute, like this, has no such power - it plainly clear as day, for all to see, and, thus, my imagination is not engaged, whatsoever. How could this be? : ----- there is nothing for it (my imagination) to do, this in spite of the fact that you, the player, make every attempt to draw me in by playing with a non-predecided approach that leaves things in doubt.

Oh Rob, you are wasted on run-of-the-mill guitars. Your technique is so suited to lutes. I completely get the draw to the guitar, but I'd love to see you get a custom that was built to respond to your excellent tone control with flesh. Or an enormous 6 course 'baroque' guitar. Or a proper Torres model, or something.

Lute definitely sounds better played without fingernails! No dislikes, by the way:)