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Hopkinson Smith
Hopkinson Smith is a Swiss-American lutenist and pedagogue, longtime resident in Basel, Switzerland. Smith was born in New York City, the son of architectural writer and photographer G. E. Kidder Smith. He graduated from Harvard University with Honors in Music. He moved to Europe in 1973 to study lute and vihuela with the renowned Catalan classical guitarist Emilio Pujol, as well as Eugen Mueller-Dombois. In the mid-1970s, Hopkinson Smith was involved in the founding of the ensemble Hespèrion XX, which led to his ten-year collaboration with Jordi Savall. Since the mid-1980s, Hopkinson Smith has focused principally on solo music for early plucked instruments. These include the vihuela, Renaissance lute, theorbo, Renaissance and Baroque guitars and the baroque lute. His 2000 recording of the J.S. Bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin adapted for baroque lute has been called 'arguably the best you can buy of these works – on any instrument' by Gramophone magazine. He additionally recorded the J.S. Bach cello suites adapted for theorbo. Hopkinson Smith gives concerts and masterclasses throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and North and South America. From Wikipedia (

Songs

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Sonate pour luth in A Major: VI. Presto
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Partita for Solo Violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Chaconne
Hopkinson Smith
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La cascade
Hopkinson Smith
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Pièces de viole du Troisième Livre, suite I en la mineur: Prélude [11] - Lentement (1711)
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Fortune My Foe
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Albums

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Bach: Suites (Arr. for Lute)

2021
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Bach: Sonatas, Partitas & Suites (Arr. for Lute)

2016
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Bach: Suites Nos. 4, 5 & 6 (Arr. for Lute)

2013
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Dowland: Whose Heavenly Touch

2019
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Lautenkonzerte

2016
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Bach: Suites Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (Arr. for Lute)

2013
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Mad Dog

2017
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Bach: L'oeuvre de luth

2016
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J. S. Bach: Suites arrangées pour luth baroque

2017
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Bach: Sonatas & Partitas (Arr. for Lute)

2016

Singles & EPs

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The Second Book of Songes: No. 11, Come Away, Come Sweet Love

Single • 2019
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A mes ennuyz (in 34 Chansons musicales a quatre parties)

Single • 2025
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Galliard to the Delight Pavan

Single • 2017
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The Second Book of Songes: No. 10, O Sweet woods, the Delight of Solitariness

Single • 2019
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Caldibi castigliano (Intabulatura de lauto, Libro quarto)

Single • 2023
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6 Cello Suites, No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prelude

Single • 2016
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Saltarello ala ferrarese (Intabulatura de lauto, Libro quarto)

Single • 2022
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Dolermi sempre voglio (in Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto)

Single • 2025
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Johnson's Jewell

Single • 2017

Videos

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Hanna Zielińska plays 'a Fancy' (p. 73) by John Dowland on 'Frieda' (Den Toom Luthier)

Resonant Connections Media • 68K views
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They Played This Song at Hangings in the 1600s 😬

Brandon Acker • 25K views
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Music in the Time of Shakespeare - 07 Lachrimae Pavin

Everything Shakespeare • 31K views
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Jordi Savall plays Marin Marais La Rêveuse (2014 live)

荼朵DorothyTu • 34K views
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Hopkinson Smith - Suite n°1 BWV 1007: I.Prelude

Hopkinson Smith • 41K views
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J. Dowland: Melancholy Galliard; Marco De Biasi

Marco De Biasi • 2.6K views
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La rêveuse, Marin Marais

L'eschequier Ensemble • 53K views
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Tous les Matins du Monde Soundtrack - Marin Marais - La Rêveuse (1991)

Ecoutez le cinéma... • 72K views
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Hopkinson Smith : Chaconne de Bach (1988)

Christian de Chabot • 382K views
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Marin Marais | Alexandre Tharaud et Jean-Guihen Queyras | La Rêveuse [extrait]

harmonia mundi music • 7K views

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Opera for the Ages

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Modern Classical

Playlist • YouTube Music