Luca Pianca

About the artist

Luca Pianca (born 1958) is a Swiss musician-lutenist whose specialty is archlute. In 1985 he co - founded Il Giardino Armonico.,a pioneering Italian early-music ensemble based in Milan. He has premiered works by the contemporary lutenist-composer Roman Turovsky-Savchuk at international festivals, and received numerous international awards for his recordings. Luca Pianca was born in Lugano, Switzerland of ethnic Italian ancestry. He studied with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Austria.

Top songs

  1. Anonymous: Greensleeves (With Improvised Variations)
  2. Improvisation [Lute]
  3. Fantasia 65
  4. Toccatta (Improvisation)
  5. La rossignol (Arr. for Lute & Harp)
  6. Fantasia 30
  7. Bach: Lute Partita In C Minor, BWV 997 - Preludio
  8. Prélude (Improvisation by Luca Pianca)
  9. Recercar alla spagnola
  10. Alcione: Tempeste
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  1. Las je m'y plains
  2. Recercar secondo
  3. Fantasia ottava
  4. Barafostus' Dreame (Arr. for Lute & Harp)
  5. Canone a 2
  6. O'Carolan's Dream (Arr. for Lute & Harp)
  7. Prélude
  8. Fantasia 7
  9. Fantasia prima
  10. Fantasia 33
  11. Fantasia 87
  12. Allemanda la villega
  13. Las je m'y plains (Version for Lute by Francesco da Milano)
  14. Livres de tablature des pièces de luth, dédiées à Mr de Bartillat - Paris, 1680: No. 3, Allemande ou "Testament du Vieux Gaultier"
  15. Livres de tablature des pièces de luth, dédiées à Mr de Bartillat - Paris, 1680: No. 20, Courante "Le Canon" - Double (Improvisation by Luca Pianca)
  16. Intavolatura di liuto et di chitarrone, libro 1 - Parte 1 per liuto: Toccata XX
  17. Sonate No. 3 en Do Majeur: I. Andante
  18. Incognito
  19. Fantasia 15
  20. Fantasia 34 "La Compagna"
  21. Fantasia septima
  22. Fantasia 61
  23. Fantasia 65 (From "Intabolatura di lauto - Milano, 1548")
  24. Sarabande (From the Vaudry de Saizenay Manuscript, 1699; Vol. 6, No. 109, f. 93)
  25. Sarabande
  26. Fantasia 1
  27. Fantasia 30 (From "Intabolatura di lauto - Milano, 1548")
  28. Dreweries Accordes (Arr. for Lute & Harp)
  29. Recercar nono
  30. So ben mi ch'a bon tempo (Aria)
  31. Fantasia 10
  32. Recercar decimoquinto
  33. De mon triste déplaisir (Version for Lute by Francesco da Milano)
  34. Recercar secondo (No. 2 from "Intabolatura de Lauto, Libro 1 - Venice, 1546")
  35. Courante
  36. Chaconne (Improvisations by Luca Pianca) [From the Vaudry de Saizenay Manuscript, 1699; Vol. 6, No. 285, f. 288]
  37. De mon triste déplaisir
  38. Incognito (No. 9 from "Opera IX de balli - Venice, 1553" - Version for Solo Lute)
  39. Canone a 2 (From "Intabolatura di lauto - Milano, 1548")
  40. Fantasia 7 (From "Intabolatura di lauto - Milano, 1548")
  41. Fantasia 33 (From "Intabolatura di lauto - Milano, 1548")
  42. Muzette de Mr Fourcroy (Arr. for Lute by Robert de Visée) [From the Vaudry de Saizenay Manuscript, 1699; Vol. 6, No. 177, f. 156]
  43. Fantasia 90
  44. Fantasia 5
  45. Sonate No. 3 en Do Majeur: II. Allegro
  46. Fantasia 67
  47. Recercar alla spagnola (From "Compositione di meser Vincenzo Capirola, gentil homo bresano - circa 1517")
  48. Fantasia 22
  49. Pièces de viole, Livre IV No. 87: Badinage
  50. Canarie "Le Berceau"
  51. Intavolatura di liuto et di chitarrone, libro 1, parte 1 per liuto: Toccata XV
  52. Recercar sesto
  53. Fantasia prima (From "Intabolatura di liuto di M. Francesco Da Milano et Perino Fiorentino suo discipulo, libro terzo - Venezia, 1562")
  54. Allemande "L'Encyclopédie" (From the Vaudry de Saizenay Manuscript, 1699; Vol. 6, No. 159, f. 145)
  55. Gavotte "La Bergère" (From the Vaudry de Saizenay Manuscript, 1699; Vol. 5, No. 13, f. 13)
  56. Pièces de viole, Livre II No. 63: Les voix humaines
  57. Chaconne
  58. Gigue - Double (Improvisation by Luca Pianca) [From the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford - Manuscript G. 618, f. 44]
  59. Bach: Suite In C Minor, BWV 997 - Preludio
  60. Sonate pour violon et basse jouée au ténor de violon No. 11 en La Mineur, Op. 1: I. Vivace
  61. Prélude (Improvisation 2 by Luca Pianca)
  62. "Tendrement" pour clavecin
  63. Sonate pour violon et basse jouée au ténor de violon No. 11 en La Mineur, Op. 1: II. Affetuoso
  64. Fantasia 6
  65. "Tendrement" pour ténor de violon, violoncelle et basse
  66. Libro de sonate diverse: No. 61. Toccata
  67. No. 14 L'Eraclito amoroso
  68. Pièces de théorbe et de luth - Paris, 1716: No. 61, Allemande "La Royalle"
  69. Pièces de viole, Livre IV No. 70: Rondeau. Le bijou
  70. Greensleeves (With Improvised Variations)
  71. Tricotets (Couplets by Luca Pianca) [From the Vaudry de Saizenay Manuscript, 1699; Vol. 5, No. 5, f. 5]
  72. Sonate No. 5 en Fa Majeur: II. Allegro moderato
  73. Sonate No. 5 en Fa Majeur: I. Adagio
  74. The Brown Haired Maiden
  75. Ground Divisions
  76. Sonate No. 3 en Do Majeur: III. Affetuoso
  77. Sonate No. 3 en Do Majeur: IV. Allegro
  78. Sonate No. 2 en Ré Mineur: I. Andante
  79. Sonate pour violon et basse jouée au ténor de violon No. 11 en La Mineur, Op. 1: III. Allegro
  80. Calata spagnola 5
  81. Sonate No. 2 en Ré Mineur: III. Adagio
  82. Sonate No. 6 en La Mineur: I. Adagio
  83. Recercar nono (From "Compositione di meser Vincenzo Capirola, gentil homo bresano - circa 1517")
  84. Bagpipes
  85. Fantasia 1 (From "Intabolatura di lauto - Milano, 1548")
  86. Libro de sonate diverse: No. 20. Fuga (After Francesco da Milano)
  87. Fantasia 15 (From "Intabolatura di lauto - Milano, 1548")
  88. Fantasia 61 (From "Intabolatura di lauto - Milano, 1548")
  89. Libro de passaggi ascendenti et descendenti: Anchor che col partire (After Cipriano de Rore)
  90. Interrotte speranze

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