Alison Crum / Laurence Cummings

Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord

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Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212002421
Catnr: SIGCD 024
Release date: 01 March 2004
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Signum Classics
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0635212002421
Catalogue number
SIGCD 024
Release date
01 March 2004
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About the album

It is not difficult to discern many of the elements that render Bach’s three sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord so remarkable by the standards of their age: a mixing of virtually every conceivable genre, form, style, medium and gesture of the late German Baroque; a forging of connections that had not hitherto been made; a penetrating insight into the multi-dimensional potentialities of each motive, theme and polyphonic complex.

Composing for the viol in this way was by, the early eighteenth century, archaic, yet what has made J.S.Bach a summit for many is his apparent ability to transcend historical contingency, somehow to stop the clock of outward progress and to rearrange and recreate the world as he knew it.

On this album we hear the three sonatas for the Viola da Gamba and three Preludes and Fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier.

Bach creëert zijn eigen wereld in zijn sonates voor viola da gamba
Het is niet moeilijk om de vele kenmerken te onderscheiden die Johann Sebastian Bachs drie sonates voor viola da gamba en klavecimbel zo opmerkelijk maken volgens de normen van hun tijd: een vermenging van vrijwel elk denkbaar genre, vorm, stijl, medium, en gebaar uit de late Duitse Barok, het smeden van verbindingen die tot dan toe nog niet werden gemaakt, en een doordringend inzicht in de multidimensionale mogelijkheden van elk motief, thema en polyfoon complex.

Op deze manier voor de gamba componeren was tegen de vroege 18e eeuw archaïsch, maar dat wat Bach voor velen tot een hoogtepunt heeft gemaakt is zijn schijnbare vaardigheid om historische eventualiteiten te overstijgen, om op de een of andere manier de klok van de uitwendige vooruitgang stop te zetten en de wereld zoals hij die kende opnieuw te scheppen en te ordenen. Dit album bevat naast de drie sonates ook drie preludes en fuga’s uit het eerste boek van Das Wohltemperierte Klavier.

Alison Crum is een van de bekendste Britse vertegenwoordigers van de viola da gamba. Ze reist als docent en uitvoerend musicus rond de wereld om recitals en colleges te geven. Laurence Cummings geniet een succesvolle carrière als klavecinist, continuospeler en dirigent. Als solist heeft hij de werken van Louis en François Couperin opgenomen.

Artist(s)

Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)

Alison Crum (gamba)

Composer(s)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions, and hundreds of cantatas. His music is revered for its technical command, artistic beauty, and intellectual depth.  Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest in and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.  
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Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions, and hundreds of cantatas. His music is revered for its technical command, artistic beauty, and intellectual depth.

Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest in and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.


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