Caught up with this recital finally, today. O'Dette really is a true master. He and North are surely the greatest lutenists currently before us, with a fag paper between them. O'Dette possibly the more extrovert, bringing greater colour to the repertoire, but this is clearly a matter of taste.
Listening to the music today, it's tempting to see the Elizabethan age as a more civilised one than our own; until one remembers the bloodthirsty customs by which those of different religious or political persuasions were despatched while such marvels of expressive contemplation were being created.
Yes, the cougher was a nuisance and captured for posterity by the mics. I do wish people had a little more consideration for their peers; another sign of the times I'm afraid.
Listening to the music today, it's tempting to see the Elizabethan age as a more civilised one than our own; until one remembers the bloodthirsty customs by which those of different religious or political persuasions were despatched while such marvels of expressive contemplation were being created.
Yes, the cougher was a nuisance and captured for posterity by the mics. I do wish people had a little more consideration for their peers; another sign of the times I'm afraid.
. I have a nice 1986 CD of O'Dette and Lindberg playing English Lute Duets (BIS-CD-267). These guys are all good friends. 
). Probably removing him or her self from the hall would have been even more disruptive. I was interested that the microphones also picked up O'Dette's stentorian breathing, not so evident in the hall but prominent on his Harmonia Mundi CDs. An argument against such close miking.
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