Sylvius Leopold Weiss – Partitas Pour Luth

Sylvius Leopold Weiss – Partitas Pour Luth Recorded in Mandelsloh, Germany, between 24 and 27/09/1997 About these works: Sylvius Leopold Weiss probably did not worry much about posterity; few 18th-century musicians did. And posterity duly ignored Weiss, partly because there was nothing suitable on which to play his music. It was tailored for the Baroque [...]

Sylvius Leopold Weiss – Ars Melancholiae

Sylvius Leopold Weiss – Ars Melancholiae Recorded in Villa Consuelo, El Escorial, Madrid in June 1993 About the author: The master lutenist of the eighteenth century, Weiss was born in Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland) into a lute-playing family, and first learned the instrument from his father, Johann Jacob Weiss. In 1706, Weiss made his [...]

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