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Axel Wolf

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Lute player Axel Wolff has a wide repertoire that includes not only works from the Baroque period, but also jazz performances with his saxophone ensemble. For this work, he tackled a sonata by Michelangelo Galilei, the youngest brother of the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei. The Galileo family originally had a connection to the lute, and their father was so well versed in the instrument that he published a treatise on lute technique. Michelangelo became a lute player and eventually worked his way through Poland to the Lithuanian palaces, and in 1607 became a court orchestral player for Maximilian I of Bavaria. This "Collection of Lute Pieces on Tablature" is Galilei's masterpiece, and each sonata consists of short dances in the Italian style, which Wolff plays with great vivacity and variety of expression. Naxos Japan