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Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord
Release date March 2015
Tracks:
| 1 – 4 | Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata in G, BWV1027 |
| 5 – 8 | Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata in D, BWV1028 |
| 9 – 11 | Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata in G minor, BWV1029 |
| 12 – 14 | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Trio in G minor, Wq88 |
Details
The Brook Street Band has easily earned its reputation as “the smartest new baroque band around” (The Times, London). Among today’s most notable Handel specialists, the group’s founder, cellist Tatty Theo, and harpsichordist, Carolyn Gibley, turn their attention for only the second time to the music of J. S. Bach as well as his son Carl Philip Emmanuel. Like father, like son, each wrote three Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord. These works have long been a valued part of the cello repertoire, but this recording is the first to make use of a regular four-string baroque cello.
Reviews
‘Theo and Gibley, founding members of the famed Brook Street Band, give it their all in smashing performances… sturdy, gracious and consistently alert…’
Audio-Video Club of Atlanta
‘…there is a close match between cello and a harpsichord of cutting transients which fits the businesslike virtuosity of much of the playing. Choice of tempi cannot be faulted and rhythm is exact…’
Nalen Anthoni, Gramophone Magazine, May 2015
‘…an impressive recording and some infectious music-making from two performers who clearly take great pleasure in playing together.’
Early Music Today