Art.Nr.: NO26007 EAN: 4011254260078

Release date: June 2026

For his cabinet of delicacies, the lutenist Eduardo Egüez has compiled a collection of French lute music: the focus is on the composer Franz Philipp Le Sage de Richee. Very little is known about his life, except that he presumably had to flee France and subsequently found employment in Breslau.

He occupies a central position in lute music because he brings together various styles and trends in French lute music and already foreshadows the later international style of composers such as Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Corelli and Handel. His music survives only in his 1695 collection Cabinet der Lauten, from which Egüez performs a suite in B minor.

In his preface to this collection, Le Sage de Richee states that he was a pupil of Charles Mouton, and acknowledges the influence that the famous masters François Dufaut, Denis Gaultier and Jan Antonin Losy von Losinthal had on his work. Egüez has also compiled a suite from each of these four French lute masters, thereby offering the listener a wonderful panorama of 17th-century French lute music.