My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home played by Bream

Heres a clip from Bream's video "My life in music". This clip was my major influence for my interpretation of this piece, enjoy!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Julian
• Bream
• England
• English
• guitar
• classical
• lute
• John
• Dowland
• lord
• welcome
• home
• Willoughby
• renaissance

[BassTrebleEXE]

God, you historical 'authenticists' are bores. Who bloody cares is if the lute and technique are historically accurate? I suppose you don't think Bach should ever be played on a piano? (You can be damn sure that if pianos had been invented during Bach's lifetime, he would have written for them.)

Personally, I have always liked the increased attack that Bream brings to the lute. OK, it's a more modern sound, but what's wrong with that?

[BFGUITAR]

I completely agree with you. It's music... the whole idea is to play it the way you want. If everyone were purists music would get really boring fast. As for bach... he did play on an early piano but he didn't like it. I don't blame him as he grew up all his life with a harpsichord so that's what hes use to. I prefer Bach on a harpsichord than a piano but others may think differently which is fine of course.

[marsvltor2]

Metal 'guitar' frets on a lute????

[BFGUITAR]

My understanding is that his lute is actually something called a "guitar lute". It was basically a guitar with a lute shape/body. He had it modified to make it more "lute like" by adding strings and such (he changed the headstock of course). It's not a pure lute, but hey, it sounds good!

[zzornix]

Nope, that's a real lute. A "guitar lute" has a longer neck and 6 strings, and is tuned just like a guitar.

[BFGUITAR]

I have Bream's "My life in music" and he explicitly says it's a lute guitar that was fashioned into a lute by a harpsichord maker.

[Deerse]

His twin brother is better .

No kidding : marvellous !

[googlekopfkind]

@BassTrebleEXE bach didnt liked the piano ..

[TheJamesalden]

I've heard this piece many times, and always I can hear it fresh. Quite possibly my favorite duet...

[zeus21ish]

nice to see that all are so educated

[ooosteve]

I wish I could play with myself.... no pun intended

[BFGUITAR]

@Shenanigasm Well that's the thing. It doesn't sound like a true lute. Bream's lute has metal frets as opposed to moveable gut frets. His lute's construction is much more sturdier (similar to a guitar) than a lute. Lutes typically are very light using very thin pieces of wood. Because his lute is sturdier he uses tighter strings (like a guitar) as opposed to very loose lute strings. These all combined change the sound of his lute to something closer to a guitar.

[Gangly1]

I sense that there has been a bit of a disagreement going on here.

I can't be bothered trawling back through the comments to find out why.

I will listen again.....I just did.

It is great.

Chill out folks.

[Shenanigasm]

But I'm curious what is lute technique? I seriously want to know