Bach: Sonatas for Viola da gamba und Cembalo

Bach: Sonatas for Viola da gamba und Cembalo

Bach: Sonatas for Viola da gamba und Cembalo
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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Ton Koopman
Performer: Jordi Savall
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2000-05-09
Music Label: Alia Vox Spain
Soundtracks:
  1. Son No.4 in C, BWV 529: Allegro
  2. Son No.4 in C, BWV 529: Largo
  3. Son No.4 in C, BWV 529: Allegro
  4. Son No.1 in G, BWV 1027: Adagio
  5. Son No.1 in G, BWV 1027: Allego Ma Non Tanto
  6. Son No.1 in G, BWV 1027: Andante
  7. Son No.1 in G, BWV 1027: Allegro Moderato
  8. Son No.2 in D, BWV 1028: Adagio
  9. Son No.2 in D, BWV 1028: Allegro
  10. Son No.2 in D, BWV 1028: Andante
  11. Son No.2 in D, BWV 1028: Allegro
  12. Son No.3 in g, BWV 1029: Vivace
  13. Son No.3 in g, BWV 1029: Adagio
  14. Son No.3 in g, BWV 1029: Allegro

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Free Music Review: Savall Makes the Gamba Credible
Hit: 5 Stars

Throughout much of its period of popularity, the viola da gamba was not a professional musician's instrument. It was the dilettante's pleasure, the instrument for cultured recreational music. Such it has become again in modern times, with the "early music" movement. There are summer workshop "dude ranches" for amateur gambists all over America. Much of the music written for gambas even by the greatest composers of the late Renaissance and Baroque was written for gentlemen/patrons of perhaps limited virtuosity. Bach's gamba sonatas, for example, are less challenging in every way, including listening, than his solo cello suites.

Nonetheless, the Bach gamba sonatas are thrillingly beautiful, and Jordi Savall has lived with them until he understands them better than anyone but Bach himself. I have listened to Jordi's older recording of them so many times that I can recognize each from one random bar of music. Consequently, my first reaction to this newer performance was quizzical. Why's he playing it that way? But I've come to respect the new as much as the old. Now there are two master performances to choose from.

If you enjoy the sound of the gamba, you will be delighted to discover that Savall has a long catalogue of performances by the great French Baroque composers for his instrument: Marais, St. Colombe, Fourqueray, and others, all ravishing. No one since that era of French geniuses has made the gamba a more persuasive virtuoso's instrument than Jordi Savall.
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