It is indeed rare that one finds a single disc that combines all aspects of early musicianship: performer, editor, historian and even luthier. Martin Shepherd’s Fantasia · Lute music from the early 16th century (FS Records fsr181, issued 2018, 71′), however, does just that. Surprisingly, since Shepherd has been well known in the lute community as a luthier and performer since the 1970s, this is his debut solo recording. The selection of works on the disc revolves around vocal music arranged or ‘intabulated’ for lute, as well as more loosely inspired fantasias and ricercars, performed on an instrument of his own making. Most of these works are rarely heard today: modern performers tend to favour the flashier preludes, instrumental fantasias, dances and the like; however, intabulations of vocal music are the most common genre in surviving lute sources of 16th-century lute music (see http://applications.library.appstate.edu/music/lute/C16/contentlst.html).

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过多的弹拨弦

确实很少有人能找到一张将早期音乐家的各个方面结合在一起的唱片：表演者，编辑，历史学家，甚至是琴弦匠。马丁·谢泼德（Martin Shepherd）的《幻想曲》·16世纪初的琵琶音乐（FS Records fsr181，发行然而，2018，71'）做到了这一点。令人惊讶的是，自从1970年代以来，Shepherd在琵琶社区中以琴师和演奏家而闻名，这是他的首张个人录音。光盘上作品的选择围绕着为琵琶编排或“固定化”的声乐，以及由他自己制作的乐器演奏的灵感较为宽松的幻想曲和稻草车。这些作品中的大多数今天很少有人听到：现代表演者倾向于青睐闪光点的前奏，器乐幻想曲，舞蹈等；但是，在16世纪琵琶音乐中，残存的琵琶声中最常见的类型是声乐（请参阅http://applications.library.appstate.edu/music/lute/C16/contentlst.html）。