Weiss Moskau

Bagpipes from Hell - Music for viola da gamba, lyra-viol, lute and ceterone
Marais - Forqueray - Weiss - Simpson - Robinson - Sainte-Colombe - Anon.
Classical, Baroque | 1 CD | EAC | FLAC, CUE, LOG | Scans | 259 MB | RS
Recorded: 19-22 June 1999, Villa Medici-Giulini, Briosco, Italy
Released: 2000 | Label: Winter & Winter 250-910-050-2 | TT: 57:45
Vittorio Ghielmi - viola da gamba, lyra-viol | Luca Pianca - lute

For starters, there are no bagpipes on this weird and wonderful mix of 17th- and 18th-century music arranged for lute, ceterone, viola da gamba, and lyra viol. But the playing by Vittorio Ghielmi and Luca Pianca (founder of the Giardino Armonico ensemble) on Bagpipes from Hell will have you fooled that something wheezy is at work here. It's an odd mix of dances, including jigs, and folk-inspired numbers […] that somehow blends the droning elements of bagpipes and hurdy-gurdy with the intricate delicacy of baroque composition […] and the playing throughout is intense and exquisitely recorded. (Jason Verlinde)

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