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Ronn McFarlane & William Simms

Two Lutes

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1 Anon: Greensleeves  
2 Anon: La Rossignal  
3 Anon: Drewries accordes  
4 John Johnson: Trenchmore  
5 John Johnson: The Delight Pavan  
6 John Johnson: A Dump #1  
7 Marchant&Francis: Eccho or Allmane for 2 lutes  
8 Anon: Robin is to the Greenwood Gone  
9 John Johnson: Rogero  
10 Anon: Callinoe  
11 John Johnson: The Flatt Pavan  
12 John Johnson: The Flatt Galliard  
13 John Johnson: The Nuts be Brown  
14 John Johnson: The Queen's Treble  
15 John Danyel: A Fancy  
16 John Danyel: Passemezo Galliard  
17 John Dowland: My Lord Chamberlaine's Galliard  
18 Dowland: My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home  
19 John Johnson: Chi Passa  
20 John Johnson: Wakefield on a Green  
21 Thomas Robinson: A Fantasie  
22 Thomas Robinson: The Queen's Goodnight  
23 Thomas Robinson: Passemezo Galliard  
24 Thomas Robinson: A Plaine Song  
25 Thomas Robinson: Twenty Ways Upon the Bells  
26 Thomas Robinson: A Toye  
27 Anon: An Almayne  
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Sono Luminus is proud to release Two Lutes: Lute Duets from England's Golden Age, a wonderful collection of enchanting music performed by lute virtuosos Ronn McFarlane and William Simms. As stated by Ronn McFarlane, "Elizabethan lute duets yield the most companionable and friendly kind of music-making for the players. In equal duets each lutenist plays nearly the same music, alternating playing the melody and the harmonic accompaniment. It feels like a conversation, with each lutenist posing musical questions and answers throughout. Each player is free to improvise upon the written part, so the conversation can be very individual and spontaneous! On theother hand, in the treble-ground style of lute duet, one lutenist plays a single line melodic part (usually including some virtuosic passages) while the second lutenist plays a chordal accompaniment. Sometimes the chordal accompaniment is very simple and repetitive, and it is likely that a skilled player would vary his part to make a more musically satisfying accompaniment."

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  • Ronn McFarlane set for NAU's Horizons Summer Concert Series / Arizona Daily Sun
    Posted At: June 9, 2019 12:00 AM

    Grammy-nominated lutenist Ronn McFarlane is bringing his renowned music to the Horizons Summer Concert Series at Northern Arizona University. McFarlane will perform traditional and modern lute music during The Prince of Instruments concert at 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 9, at the NAU Kitt Recital Hall. McFarlane seeks to bring the lute-the most popular instrument of the Renaissance-into the musical mainstream...
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  • Ronn McFarlane visits NEPR studios for PRESTO podcast
    Posted At: May 4, 2019 12:00 AM

    American lutenist, composer and teacher Ronn McFarlane has been active nationally and internationally for over 40 years, both as a soloist and as a collaborator with other instrumentalists. McFarlane recently returned to some of his favorite repertory, 16th and 17th century Irish and Scottish music for his latest solo CD release, "The Celtic Lute". McFarlane visited the NEPR studios and talked with PREST...
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  • WRTI energizes the show with live classical music / The Temple News
    Posted At: March 19, 2019 12:00 AM

    Temple-owned radio station plays live classical music. Radio host Debra Lew Harder incorporated live classical music performances on her "Classical Weekdays" on Wednesday program. Harder, who hosts two WRTI shows, used to play only pre-recorded classical music from CDs or records while sitting behind a large switchboard. But she decided to energize the show by adding live performances from both well...
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  • Ayreheart with Sarah Pillow set for 'Friends of Chamber Music' season finale / Stockton Record
    Posted At: March 20, 2018 12:00 AM

    One of Ronn McFarlane's teenage garage bands was called the Miami Beach Detention Home Band for the Prevention of Opera. Soprano Sarah Pillow started out as a jazz singer but studied as an opera singing at the Oberlin Conservatory. Despite their backgrounds, the two are united in their love of Renaissance music and have found harmony on stage, which they'll demonstrate Sunday March 25th when Pillow sings...
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  • Two of the greatest living lutenists play 'University of Chicago Presents' / Chicago Classical Review
    Posted At: January 11, 2017 12:00 AM

    Rare is the opportunity to hear two of the greatest living players of an instrument play together. And rarer still when the instrument is as scarce as the lute. Just such an opportunity was afforded Sunday at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, where the University of Chicago Presents series offered an afternoon of two-lute music played by Paul O'Dette and Ronn McFarlane. The risk, of cours...
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  • Ronn McFarlane & Paul O'Dette set for Houston Early Music | Guitar Houston recital / Houston Public Media
    Posted At: November 9, 2016 12:00 AM

    The lute is probably the most recognizable instrument from the Renaissance era of the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries. It's like a guitar, but with (usually) more strings, a rounder back, and an angled pegbox. It's quite prominent in any number of paintings from the era as well. This Friday night at 7:30, Ronn McFarlane and fellow lutenist Paul O'Dette will be performing a duo recital through Ho...
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  • Ronn McFarlane says the lute is making a comeback / Fredericksburg.com
    Posted At: May 14, 2015 12:00 AM

    The lute is a European stringed instrument that peaked in popularity about 400 years ago, and Ronn McFarlane thinks the time is right for a comeback. McFarlane and his group, Ayreheart, have two lute players. The music they make combines melodies from the Renaissance and Baroque periods with the drive of rock 'n' roll. In fact, McFarlane got hooked on the lute by way of rock 'n' roll. He was inspired to ...
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  • Lutenist, Ronn McFarlane TONIGHT!!@Celtic Concerts at the Old Brogue / Great Falls, VA
    Posted At: November 17, 2013 12:00 AM

    Grammy-nominated lutenist, Ronn McFarlane will play a Solo Performance TONIGHT!! Sunday November 17@Celtic Concerts at the Old Brogue, 760 Walker Road / Great Falls, VA   Born in West Virginia, Ronn spent his early years in Maryland. At thirteen, upon hearing "Wipeout" by the Surfaris, he fell wildly in love with music and taught himself to play on a "cranky sixteen-dollar steel-string guitar." ...
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  • Ronn McFarlane and Mindy Rosenfeld will play TONIGHT!!@Church of the Resurrection / Burtonsville, MD
    Posted At: October 27, 2013 12:00 AM

    Grammy-nominated lutenist, Ronn McFarlane and Mindy Rosenfeld will play TONIGHT!! Sunday October 27@Church of the Resurrection, 3315 Greencastle Road Burtonsville, MD  Born in West Virginia, Ronn spent his early years in Maryland. At thirteen, upon hearing "Wipeout" by the Surfaris, he fell wildly in love with music and taught himself to play on a "cranky sixteen-dollar steel-string guitar....
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  • Lutenist Ronn McFarlane & Flutist Mindy Rosenfeld play The Hill Chapel Concerts in New Market, MD / TONIGHT!!
    Posted At: October 24, 2013 12:00 AM

    Grammy-nominated lutenist, Ronn McFarlane will play TONIGHT!! October 24@The Hill Chapel Concerts, with Mindy Rosenfeld, Renaissance and Baroque flutes. 6 East Main St., New Market, MD. Born in West Virginia, Ronn spent his early years in Maryland. At thirteen, upon hearing "Wipeout" by the Surfaris, he fell wildly in love with music and taught himself to play on a "cranky sixteen-dollar steel-s...
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  • Ronn McFarlane and Mindy Rosenfeld TONIGHT!! @Holloway Hall Auditorium / Salisbury University
    Posted At: September 26, 2013 12:00 AM

    Grammy-nominated lutenist, Ronn McFarlane and Mindy Rosenfeld on Renaissance and Baroque flutes will play TONIGHT!! Thursday September 26@Holloway Hall Auditorium / Salisbury University Born in West Virginia, Ronn spent his early years in Maryland. At thirteen, upon hearing "Wipeout" by the Surfaris, he fell wildly in love with music and taught himself to play on a "cranky sixteen-dollar steel-string...
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  • Ronn McFarlane and Mindy Rosenfeld TODAY!! @Cathedral of Mary Our Queen / Baltimore
    Posted At: September 22, 2013 12:00 AM

    Grammy-nominated lutenist, Ronn McFarlane and Mindy Rosenfeld on Renaissance and Baroque flutes will play TODAY!! Sunday September 22@Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, 5200 North Charles Street, Baltimore. Born in West Virginia, Ronn spent his early years in Maryland. At thirteen, upon hearing "Wipeout" by the Surfaris, he fell wildly in love with music and taught himself to play on a "cranky sixteen-doll...
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  • Ronn McFarlane and Mindy Rosenfeld TODAY!! @Enoch Pratt Library / Baltimore
    Posted At: September 21, 2013 12:00 AM

    Grammy-nominated lutenist, Ronn McFarlane and Mindy Rosenfeld on Renaissance and Baroque flutes will play TODAY!! Saturday September 21@Enoch Pratt Library - Poe Room, 400 Cathedral St. Baltimore. Born in West Virginia, Ronn spent his early years in Maryland. At thirteen, upon hearing "Wipeout" by the Surfaris, he fell wildly in love with music and taught himself to play on a "cranky s...
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