Bach: Sonatas for Viola da gamba und Cembalo
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Composer: Johann Sebastian BachPerformer: Ton Koopman
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2000-05-09
Music Label: Alia Vox Spain
Soundtracks:
- Son No.4 in C, BWV 529: Allegro
- Son No.4 in C, BWV 529: Largo
- Son No.4 in C, BWV 529: Allegro
- Son No.1 in G, BWV 1027: Adagio
- Son No.1 in G, BWV 1027: Allego Ma Non Tanto
- Son No.1 in G, BWV 1027: Andante
- Son No.1 in G, BWV 1027: Allegro Moderato
- Son No.2 in D, BWV 1028: Adagio
- Son No.2 in D, BWV 1028: Allegro
- Son No.2 in D, BWV 1028: Andante
- Son No.2 in D, BWV 1028: Allegro
- Son No.3 in g, BWV 1029: Vivace
- Son No.3 in g, BWV 1029: Adagio
- Son No.3 in g, BWV 1029: Allegro
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Free Music Review: Excessivly ornamented cembalo
Hit: 2 Stars
This is the most boring record I've ever heard of Jordi Savall. In fact is more irritating than boring and for my ears it's all due to the "crispy" work of Ton Koopman over the cembalo. How I wished that these sonatas were recorded in a full stereo! If so we could have had one speaker for each instrument and then have the chance to "miss" Koopman and left Savall alone. That wouldn't be the sonatas, but at least it would have been pleasent music.
Bach: Sonatas for Viola da gamba und Cembalo Poster
Bach, like Handel and most other baroque composers, often reused compositions, either adapting and assembling portions of them to make new "compilation" works (as with the four short Masses) or rearranging them for other forces (as with the violin concertos Bach rearranged as harpsichord concertos). Bach's three sonatas for viola da gamba and keyboard are just such rearrangements, all of trio sonatas for two melody instruments and continuo. This means that the keyboard isn't just harmonic accompaniment: It's a second melody instrument, an equal duet partner with the gamba. This can be difficult for a harpsichordist to pull off successfully, because the harpsichord can't sustain a note or vary its volume. (Bach didn't specify which keyboard instrument to use, however, and there are other interesting period instrument options possible.) Ton Koopman does his instrument proud, though--he's more famous now as a Bach conductor, but he came to prominence as a harpsichordist and organist, and his sparkling performance here shows why. Jordi Savall is probably the only viola da gamba player to have become famous beyond the small world of early-instrument aficionados. Granted, that's partly due to his conducting career, but no one can make this rather introverted instrument sing quite like Savall can. --Matthew WestphalClassical Music CDs
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