The lute master Nicolas Vallet (c.1583 – c.1642) was born and raised during the first three decades of his life in France, his musical career and publications developed in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Widely acknowledged as a lute and dance teacher there, he simultaneously stood out as one of the most important and fruitful composers of sacred music for his instrument, making lute settings of the Calvinist psalms from the Genevan Psalter. Vallet’s compositions cover the three instrumental genres of the Renaissance in his repertory. Composer: Nicolas Vallet Artist: Yavor Genov (lute)

For this recording a ten-course lute is used, strung in gut at 415 Hz. This type of gut stringing considerably affects the overall sound of the lute, its resonance and sonority, hopefully bringing the lute a bit closer to what one might imagine as an ‘original’ sound of the time.

Tracklist: 0:00:00 Bourrée d’avignon 0:01:42 Ballet III 0:03:15 Prelude III 0:04:16 Passemeze d’Italye 0:07:41 Gaillaide de passemeze 0:08:55 Pavanne 0:14:34 Fantasye sur le passemeze d’Italye 0:18:26 La sarabande Espagnolle 0:19:08 Gaillarde 0:20:29 Courante 0:21:45 Praeludium 0:24:43 Psalm 53 insaniens 0:28:17 Canticum marie 0:31:07 Onse Vader in Hemelryck 0:37:44 Prelude I 0:38:55 Fortune Angloise 0:40:02 Malsimmes 0:41:28 Slaep soete slaep 0:43:02 Ballet I 0:44:29 Gaillarde du comte Essex 0:49:00 La piccarde 0:50:02 La vallette 0:50:54 Une jeune fillette 0:53:59 Pavanne de spagne 0:56:27 Onder de lindegrone 0:57:51 Carillon de village

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