Paul O’Dette plays selections from the Mure of Rowallan’s Lute Book, Rowallan Castle, Scotland

Enjoy an excerpt from Paul O’Dette’s concert at the 2021 Boston Early Music Festival, featuring the Mure of Rowallan’s Lute Book, Rowallan Castle, Scotland. This virtual event is still available! Learn more and purchase tickets at BEMF Artistic Co-Director and legendary virtuoso Paul O’Dette offers a solo recital of masterworks from the “Golden Age of English Lute Music”. Over the course of human history, there have been moments when an extraordinary number of exceptional artists were all practicing the same discipline in the same time and place, from the architects and painters of the Italian Renaissance to the Cremonese violin makers of the 17th-century. From 1580 to 1620 in England, it was Lute music that enjoyed such artistic largesse. Take a journey through this brilliant and diverse repertoire, from the masters Byrd, Dowland, Morley and Robinson and their equally gifted contemporaries whose names have been lost to the ages. Watch a video i