Bach: Complete Lute Works Evangelina Mascardi

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750): Suite in G Minor, BWV 995:
• 1 Bach: Suite in G Minor, BWV 995: I. Prélude 05:51
• 2 Bach: Suite in G Minor, BWV 995: II. Allemande 06:21
• 3 Bach: Suite in G Minor, BWV 995: III. Courante 02:32
• 4 Bach: Suite in G Minor, BWV 995: IV. Sarabande 02:45
• 5 Bach: Suite in G Minor, BWV 995: V. Gavotte I - Gavotte II en Rondeaux 04:55
• 6 Bach: Suite in G Minor, BWV 995: VI. Gigue 02:37
• Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998:
• 7 Bach: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998: I. Prélude 02:49
• 8 Bach: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998: II. Fuga 07:18
• 9 Bach: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998: III. Allegro 04:19
• Prelude in C Minor, BWV 999:
• 10 Bach: Prelude in C Minor, BWV 999 02:14
• Suite in E Minor, BWV 996:
• 11 Bach: Suite in E Minor, BWV 996: I. Praeludio 02:56
• 12 Bach: Suite in E Minor, BWV 996: II. Allemande 03:13
• 13 Bach: Suite in E Minor, BWV 996: III. Courante 02:57
• 14 Bach: Suite in E Minor, BWV 996: IV. Sarabande 03:42
• 15 Bach: Suite in E Minor, BWV 996: V. Bourée 01:21
• 16 Bach: Suite in E Minor, BWV 996: VI. Giga 04:13
• Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a:
• 17 Bach: Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a: I. Prélude 04:29
• 18 Bach: Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a: II. Loure 04:14
• 19 Bach: Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a: III. Gavotte en Rondeaux 03:33
• 20 Bach: Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a: IV. Menuet I - Menuet II 04:17
• 21 Bach: Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a: V. Bourrée 02:01
• 22 Bach: Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a: VI. Gigue 02:25
• Suite in C Minor, BWV 997:
• 23 Bach: Suite in C Minor, BWV 997: I. Prélude 03:45
• 24 Bach: Suite in C Minor, BWV 997: II. Fuga 08:08
• 25 Bach: Suite in C Minor, BWV 997: III. Sarabande 05:13
• 26 Bach: Suite in C Minor, BWV 997: IV. Gigue 03:30
• 27 Bach: Suite in C Minor, BWV 997: V. Double 03:28
• Fugue in G Minor, BWV 1000:
• 28 Bach: Fugue in G Minor, BWV 1000 05:29
• Total Runtime 01:50:35

Info for Bach: Complete Lute Works

The seven compositions commonly called works for lute by Johann Sebastian Bach, despite more than a century of studies, do not seem to want to completely reveal the mystery of their birth, of their real instrumental destination and of Bach's decidedly abstract concept of the instrument, the lute, which in its latest evolution continued after almost three centuries of glory to attract the attention of the highest musical lineage. The mystery did not distance the interpreters from these compositions, which Bach did not collect in a single cycle, as he did for the works for solo violin and cello, and indeed it has made them perhaps more stimulating, especially if we consider that in the turn of seventy years the lute was destined to disappear from the music scene. There are moments in which, to discover or define who we are, we must confront ourselves with the unknown. Evangelina Mascardi did it with this extraordinary engraving, which in addition to being the first Bach complete lute works recorderded by a women, writes a new important interpretative page, the result of artistic maturity, critical rethinking and original instrumental research.

Evangelina Mascardi, lute

Evangelina Mascardi
is considered one of the most prominent lute players on the international scene.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1977, she graduated in classical guitar and started her concert career as a highly gifted young soloist.

In 1997 she moved to Europe to study with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel, Switzerland), where she obtained her “Solisten Diplom” in 2001.

During the last decade she collaborated regularly as a continuo-player with Jordi Savall (Hespèrion XXI), Marc Minkowsky (Les Musiciens du Louvre), Andrea Marcon (Venice Baroque Orchestra), Giovanni Antonini (Giardino Armonico), Chiara Banchini (415), Simon Rattle (Berliner Philarmoniker). With them and other ensembles she took part in more than 30 recordings.

Nowadays, she confines her collaboration to Ensemble Zefiro (Alfredo Bernardini) and Monteverdi Choir (Sir John Eliot Gardiner), in order to mainly focus on solo lute repertoire.

Constantly praised by critics, she has performed recitals in a number of early music festivals such as Fringe (Barcellona), Concentus (Brno), Resonanzen (Vienna), Luth et Theorbe (Genêve), Early Music Festival (London), Musica Antigua Festival (Daroca), Forum Musicum (Breslau), and guitar festivals in Madrid, Treviso, Santander, Castell’Arquato, Pordenone and Novara.

Evangelina has four solo albums to her credit, two devoted to Johann Sebastian Bach and Sylvius Leopold Weiss (ORF-Alte Musik, Austria 2003 and 2009), one to refined and original theorbo solos by the Modena-born Bellerofonte Castaldi (Arcana 2011) and the latest recently devoted to the Belgian lutenist and composer Laurent de Saint-Luc (Musique en Wallonie 2018).

Evangelina teaches Lute at the ISSM ”Conservatorio A. Vivaldi" in Alessandria (Italy).

Since 2020 Evangelina is a member of the Scientific Commette of the Convegno internazionale di chitarra (Milan) and since 2021 of the Directive Board of the Italian Lute Society.

Since 2020 Evangelina is a member of the Scientific Commette of the Convegno internazionale di chitarra (Milan) and since 2021 of the Directive Board of the Italian Lute Society.

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