Christopher Wilson (born 1951) is a British

lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" can ref ...

nist who has performed widely and recorded several albums.

Career

Wilson studied the lute at the

Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music is a music school, conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the Undergraduate education, undergraduate to the Doctorate, doctoral level in a ...

in London with

Diana Poulton Diana Poulton, also known as Edith Eleanor Diana Chloe Poulton née Kibblewhite (18 April 1903, Storington – 15 December 1995, Heyshott) was an English lutenist and musicologist. From 1919 through 1923 she studied at the Slade School of Fine Ar ...

. He has performed widely in Great Britain and abroad, as a soloist and with other prominent musicians and ensembles, such as

Michael Chance Michael Chance CBE (born in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom 7 March 1955) is an English countertenor and the founder and Artistic Director of The Grange Festival. Chance was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire, into a musical family. After growing u ...

Fretwork Fretwork is an interlaced decorative design that is either carved in low relief on a solid background, or cut out with a fretsaw, coping saw, jigsaw or scroll saw. Most fretwork patterns are geometric in design. The materials most commonly used ...

and The

Hilliard Ensemble The Hilliard Ensemble was a British male vocal quartet originally devoted to the performance of early music. The group was named after the Elizabethan miniaturist painter Nicholas Hilliard. Founded in 1974, the group disbanded in 2014. Although ...

. A frequent guest on television and radio, Wilson has recorded numerous CDs for various recording companies. His consistent duo partner over the years has been the lutenist and singer Shirley Rumsey, with whom he co-directs the ensemble “Kithara”.

Selected recordings

*''Fantasia de mon Triste: Lute Music of

Francesco da Milano Francesco Canova da Milano (Francesco da Milano, also known as ''Il divino'', ''Francesco da Parigi'', etc.) (18 August 1497 – 2 January 1543) was an Italian lutenist and composer. He was born in Monza, near Milan, and worked for the papal cou ...

Vincenzo Capirola Vincenzo Capirola (1474 – after 1548) was an Italian composer, lutenist and nobleman of the Renaissance. His music is preserved in an illuminated manuscript called the Capirola Lutebook, which is considered to be one of the most important s ...

and

Francesco Spinacino Francesco Spinacino ( fl. 1507) was an Italian lutenist and composer. His surviving output comprises the first two volumes of Ottaviano Petrucci's influential series of lute music publications: ''Intabolatura de lauto libro primo'' and ''Intabolat ...

'' (Hyperion, 1987 / Metronome, 1997) *''Vihuela Music of the Spanish Renaissance'' (Virgin Classics, 1990) *''Rosa'' (Elizabethian Lute Music) (Virgin Classics, 1991) *''Dowland: The First Booke of Songes'', with Rufus Müller, tenor (Decca, 1993) *''Elizabethan & Jacobean Lute Songs'', with Michael Chance, countertenor (Chandos, 1993) *''

Francesco Canova da Milano Francesco Canova da Milano (Francesco da Milano, also known as ''Il divino'', ''Francesco da Parigi'', etc.) (18 August 1497 – 2 January 1543) was an Italian lutenist and composer. He was born in Monza, near Milan, and worked for the papal cou ...

: Lute Music'' (Naxos, 1994) *''La Magdalena, Lute Music in Renaissance France'' (Virgin, 1995) *''O Sweet Woods the Delight of Solitarienesse: Songs and Sonnets of

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and

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'', with Paul Agnew, tenor (Metronome, 1995) *'' Flow My Teares: John Dowland Songs Volume 1'', with Paul Agnew, tenor (Metronome, 1995) *'' In Darknesse let me dwell: John Dowland Songs Volume 2'', with Paul Agnew, tenor (Metronome, 1996) *''Milán, Narváez: Music for Vihuela'' (Naxos, 1996) *''Dall'Aquila / Da Crema: Ricercars / Intabulations / Dances'' (Naxos, 1996) *'' Antony Holborne,

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: Pavans & Galliards'' (Naxos, 1998) *''Early Venetian Lute Music'' (Naxos, 1999) *''Nicholas Lanier'': Hero and Leander'' with Paul Agnew, tenor (Metronome, 1999) *'' John Johnson: Lute Music'' (Naxos, 2003)

References

Hyperion Records
article "Christopher Wilson (lute)"
Classics Online
article "Christopher Wilson"

Notes

External links

allmusic.com
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