Yair Avidor Plays Charles Mouton on Lute

ByBradford Werner
2021

Yair Avidor performs Prelude in A minor by Charles Mouton (c.1617-1699) from his first book, entitled Pièces de luth sur différents modes. Played on an 11-course lute by Paul Thomson. This comes via his YouTube channel. Avidor has a growing collection of works on his YouTube so go subscribe and check it out. Beautiful pacing and presentation of the flowing lines by Avidor.

Also listen to him playing la belle homicide, a courante originally written by Denis Gautier (c.1597-1672), followed by Charles Mouton’s Double (an embellished version) of the same piece.

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.