Despite more than a hundred years of study, the seven compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, generally called works for lute, do not seem to want to fully reveal the secret of their creation,

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In duo with Maurizio Croci

In 1557, Venegas de Henestrosa introduces a new tablature system (cifra nueva) aiming to abrir a los músicos de tecla y arpa, la porta de toda la musica de vihuela (to open to keyboard and harp players the gates to all vihuela music).

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In the first three decades of the eighteenth century the lute was still a much loved and widespread instrument in the main European courts. That Weiss was the most gener-ously paid instrumentalist at the Hofkapelle in Dresden,

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In this programme Evangelina Mascardi draws together different works from various Italian, French and English manuscripts and publications from the XVI century and creates an intimate fresco which reflects, through the peculiar stylistic forms of lute Renaissance repertoire, the innovative blossoming of contemporary figurative arts.

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In duo with Lincoln Almada

Evangelina and the Paraguayan harpist Lincoln Almada invite us to discover traditional Latin American music going back to the time of Conquistadores. At the beginning of the XVII century the Jesuits introduced the harp and the guitar in Latin America from Europe to teach music in order to play sacred music as a tool for evangelism.

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