Arto
Nov-27-2004, 1:40am
One of the new experiences at EGMA symposium in Trossingen was hearing mandolin together with charango. There was a wonderful presentation about using music to "speak" and express emotions in Baroque music, presented by lutenist and music teacher Jürgen Hübscher from Switzerland. The man was unbelievable - the theater has definitely lost a great actor! He was imitating the affects and thoughts in music and discussing about how to express those by playing.
Along with his lecture, Hübscher was giving music examples together with Gertrud Weyhoven, who was playing a six-course mandolino. They used Scarlatti sonatas as examples, and Hübscher was playing several instruments together with Gertrud´s mandolino: theorbo, baroque guitar, and charango! He was playing charango with a similar tuning as Gaspar Sanz´s guitar tuning, with the lowest course in octaves, and used both fingerpicking and rasguedo. The mandolino and charango sounded good together - some similarity in tone and range, but still interestingly different. Hübscher was playing a regular-looking charango with modern tuning machines, and he told he has several of them in different tunings.
If I understood right, Getrud with be playing as a Baroque duo with Hübscher, along with her other activities (solo performance, and playing in mandolin-zither duo with her new partner Tomy Temerson). I hope Gertrud and Hübscher would record together, too!
I had also another experience about mandolin and charango, not in concert but as a CD. Caterina Lichtenberg has recorded a small CD album as group Trio Delicado, with her in mandolin, Diego Jascalevich in charango and voice, and Peter Ernst in guitar. It´s not a real album as there is only about 17 minutes of music, but it was beautiful and variable music with 5 tracks from Calace to Piazzolla and choro. Nice blend of instruments, this too. Caterina told they would like to make more music together - I hope this would lead to full-lenght CD.
greetings, Arto
Along with his lecture, Hübscher was giving music examples together with Gertrud Weyhoven, who was playing a six-course mandolino. They used Scarlatti sonatas as examples, and Hübscher was playing several instruments together with Gertrud´s mandolino: theorbo, baroque guitar, and charango! He was playing charango with a similar tuning as Gaspar Sanz´s guitar tuning, with the lowest course in octaves, and used both fingerpicking and rasguedo. The mandolino and charango sounded good together - some similarity in tone and range, but still interestingly different. Hübscher was playing a regular-looking charango with modern tuning machines, and he told he has several of them in different tunings.
If I understood right, Getrud with be playing as a Baroque duo with Hübscher, along with her other activities (solo performance, and playing in mandolin-zither duo with her new partner Tomy Temerson). I hope Gertrud and Hübscher would record together, too!
I had also another experience about mandolin and charango, not in concert but as a CD. Caterina Lichtenberg has recorded a small CD album as group Trio Delicado, with her in mandolin, Diego Jascalevich in charango and voice, and Peter Ernst in guitar. It´s not a real album as there is only about 17 minutes of music, but it was beautiful and variable music with 5 tracks from Calace to Piazzolla and choro. Nice blend of instruments, this too. Caterina told they would like to make more music together - I hope this would lead to full-lenght CD.
greetings, Arto