Eighteenth & Nineteenth-Century Music for Plucked Strings - Schneiderman-Yamaya Duo

John Schneiderman, baroque lute & terz guitar
Hideki Yamaya, baroque lute, mandolino, guitar in D & ten-string guitar
Music of Falckenhagen, Hagen, Baron, Weiss, Darr & Mertz

Time travel back to the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries as music faculty member John Schneiderman and UCI alumnus Hideki Yamaya perform pre-classical  music for baroque lute and mandolino, and romantic music for terz guitar and ten-string guitar.  All of the instruments used in the performance are period instruments or reproductions of period instruments.  The first half of the program will include rarely heard duets from the twilight of the lute by the last significant composers for the instrument, including the great Silvius Leopold Weiss and his most celebrated student, Adam Falckenhagen.  The second half of the program will feature works by two of the seminal German and Austrian romantic guitar composers, Adam Darr and Johann Kaspar Mertz.  The guitar works will be performed on terz guitar (a smaller guitar tuned a minor-third higher) and ten-string guitar (six strings plus an additional four basses) which broaden the range and possibilities of a traditional equal guitar duo.