Silvius Leopold Weiss

This site was playing silly buggers on Saturday, so here is the post for then.
Saturday's tune was:
Treasures of the Baroque Volume 2 (Mel Bay) - Fuga by Silvius Leopold Weiss (classical guitar)
I worked on this in between watching England perform terribly in the Calcutta Cup. I only taught myself to read guitar music about 5 years ago, and I'm not brilliant at it, but banging out tunes from this era is probably the one of the most satisfying musical things that I do. It's just so relaxing. Weiss is probably my favourite composer from this era. I don't know much about him beyond this but he wrote for the lute and these versions have been transcribed to guitar.
He's also the most technically challenging to play. Others seem to use the natural characteristics of the instrument more whereas this guy makes you do insane stretches and big chords, probably because they weren't actually written for guitar. I think because he is not constrained to the "box" and forces you to explore the instrument, the melodies and cadences are much more beautiful than those of composers for the guitar such as Campion and De Visee. I've recorded the last few bars here:

It's a slow and clumpy performance, as I haven't had enough time to really get my teeth sunk into the piece (i.e. it's about the 4th time I've ever played it). That's the trouble with this challenge really, I'm not really getting any piece up to performance standard. Good discipline though.

By the way the show on Friday was excellent, and superbly coarse