ERNST GOTTLIEB BARON (1696-1760): Concertos for Lute and Recorder in D minor, for Lute, Flute and Cello in G and for Lute, Oboe and Cello in C Minor, Sonatas for Lute Solo in B Flat and for Lute and Flute in G, Partie for Lute Solo in F, Duet for Lute and Flute in G.

Description: Baron’s ensemble works include eight suites or sonatas for lute and melody instrument with a cello at times added as a bass part. In some of these works the treatment of the lute part is particularly virtuosic, assigning the lute an important role in the melodic composition. The surviving chamber music shows him as a master of the ‘galant’ style and offers attractive and original music from a time in which the lute was already losing ground before disappearing completely from concert life in the second half of the 18th century Bernhard Hofstötter (lute), Bozhena Korchynska (recorder), Mariya Bil (cello).