Composed during Antonio Vivaldi’s stay in Prague in 1729–30, the Concerto for Lute RV 93 is the most celebrated example of a repertoire almost totally neglected today, but once extremely popular in the German-speaking world, particularly in the Habsburg lands of Austria and Bohemia. In her new album. lutenist Evangelina Mascardi illuminates a fundamental chapter in the history of the lute. Alongside the Vivaldi concerto, which guitarists have embraced since the early 1960s, she presents four practically unknown gems composed by Johann Ludwig Krebs, Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, Joachim Bernard Hagen, and Karl Ignaz Augustin Kohaut, the latter two in their first commercial recording. Accompanied by the Estrovagante Orchestra, directed by Riccardo Doni, Mascardi ventures into the rococo idiom, the stylistic context for the final virtuosic showpieces of an instrument boasting a rich history, but destined—in the space of just a few years—to be definitively eclipsed.