Paul O’Dette explores the rich repertoire of Elizabethan lute music, with pieces from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The New York Times praised O’Dette’s playing as “fleet and clean,” saying “he tempers sheer virtuosity with an emotional warmth that makes this antique music seem not very distant at all.”
Renowned lutenist Paul O’Dette explores the rich repertoire of Elizabethan lute music, with pieces from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The New York Times praised O’Dette’s playing as “fleet and clean,” saying “he tempers sheer virtuosity with an emotional warmth that makes this antique music seem not very distant at all.”
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Christel Thielmann
Recorded November 1985 in the Fountain Court, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York
Engineer: Ros Ritchie
Digital editor: Tony DiBartolo
Art direction: Christopher Lione
Cover photograph: Howard Bond
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MUSICIANS
Paul O’Dette, lute
