Jadran Duncumb won the String Category of the “BBC Young Musician of the Year” as a guitar player and on this album, he brings to life the astonishing and rarely-played late D Minor Sonata with two inventive and unheard Sonatas by Hasse, adapted by an unnamed lutenist and surviving now in a manuscript in Leipzig.
As I told before, I heard the Chaconne from a recording I bought. I liked the piece and since I'm not a lutenist I searched for a guitar transcription, which I wasn't able to find. I found instead a beautiful site maintained by Jean Daniel Forget with the lute tablatures of the London manuscript, among many other lute pieces. A transcription in modern notation was also available on his site (he was so kind to email it to me when I experienced some problems), but it was still intended to be played on the lute.
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