Jacques Tranier

Male

BREVILLE LES MONTS

France

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About me:: I used to play the classical guitar, then moved on to the lute and gave up the guitar. That was, er, eons ago.
I play the lute,orpharion, vihuela, Renaissance guitar, and occasionally the theorbo and stick to Renaissance or early 17th century music. The feel of such instruments is a source of sheer pleasure.
The Scottish repertoire is very refreshing, and Spanish music for the vihuela is supremely elegant (especially Luys Milan's) but the lute repertoire is a bottomless pit with so much to choose from. Proportion, harmony and form are not exactly thick on the ground nowadays, so performing Renaissance music is a bliss.
We play in an early music group called 'Falaise Consort' (a pun on the town where the group started and the name of music publisher Phalèse) We have shawms, dulcians, lutes, renaissance recorders, percussions - our repertory includes music from the Middle Ages to the 17th century.
Great thing the lute is back on the musical scene. When people hear it for the first time, they often come under its spell.