Re: WAYLTL 2025!

https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/alfonso-ferrabosco-ii-complete-music-for-solo-lyra-viol-paolo-pandolfo/tfcx5f1shr2ja
Paolo Pandolfo playing all of Ferrabosco the Younger's lyra-viol
almaine/galliard-coranto sets from 1609, on an instrument with
sympathetic strings (well documented for the period/place/repertoire).
Liner notes emphasize the contrapuntal complexity of the almaines in
particular and the "non-flashy virtuosity" of rendering that as a solo
(non-keyboard) performer, a particularly English-Renaissance idiom
unlike Italian virtuosity (as previously explored by among others
Pandolfo himself). Ferrabosco II's publication is presented as the
height of this type of sophistication in this repertoire which becomes
more tuneful and "fun" later on.
My first impression is that this music is more interesting to read about
than to listen to, or I'm less in awe of the Pandolfo style than I used
to be. But I've also struggled to get into the monumental Davitt Moroney
Byrd CDs so it might be something about this very recognizable "English
Post-Medieval" sound.