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Abel / Pandolfo / Boysen- Sentimental Journey (CD)

SKU: 8424562204188
Dhs. 79.00
the album cover for Abel / Pandolfo / Boysen - Sentimental Journey
the album cover for Abel / Pandolfo / Boysen - Sentimental Journey

During his lifetime, Carl Friedrich Abel was fêted all over Europe both for his supreme skills as a performer of the viola da gamba as well as for the quality of his compositions, and was responsible (along with J.C. Bach) for setting up arguably the first series of subscription concerts in the history of Western music, the "Bach-Abel-Concerts". Even the prodigy that was Mozart benefited from Abel's teachings (and was claimed as the composer of one of Abel's own symphonies). 12 years after his recording of pieces from the Drexel Manuscript (for solo viola da gamba), Paolo Pandolfo teams up with an exquisite ensemble to record a fine selection of Abel's sonatas, many of them recently discovered and being recorded here for the first time. Often adding his own cadenzas and ornamentations, Pandolfo and his team offer a breathtaking and colorful display of virtuosity and sensibility. The contemporary painter Thomas Gainsborough wrote that Abel "excelled at feeling upon the instrument", while the writer of one of his obituaries likened him to Laurence Sterne, famous as the author of Tristram Shandy: "The death of Abel occasions a great loss to the musical world. Sensibility is the prevailing and beautiful characteristic of his compositions. He was the Sterne of Music." Thus, this recording is aptly entitled A Sentimental Journey- an exploration of the world of feeling paralleling Sterne's unfinished novel A Sentimental Journey though France and Italy.

Tracklist:

  1. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:67: I. Moderato (Excerpt)
  2. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:50: I. Allegro
  3. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:50: II. Adagio
  4. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:50: III. Allegro
  5. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In A Minor, A2:57a: I. Allegro
  6. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In A Minor, A2:57a: II. Adagio
  7. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In A Minor, A2:57a: III. Allegro
  8. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In A Major, A2:53: I. Adagio
  9. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In A Major, A2:53: II. Allegro Assai
  10. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In A Major, A2:53: III. Vivace
  11. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:75: I. Un Poco Vivace
  12. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:75: II. Adagio
  13. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:75: III. Vivace
  14. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In G Minor, A2:56a: I. Allegro
  15. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In G Minor, A2:56a: II. Adagio
  16. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In G Minor, A2:56a: III. Tempo Di Minuet
  17. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In G Major, A2:72: I. Moderato
  18. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In G Major, A2:72: II. Adagio
  19. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In G Major, A2:72: III. Rondeau
  20. Improvised Prelude
  21. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In E Minor, A2:7: I. Siciliano
  22. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In E Minor, A2:7: II. Allegro
  23. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In E Minor, A2:7: III. Presto
  24. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:67: I. Moderato
Format: New CD/Classical

Abel / Pandolfo / Boysen- Sentimental Journey (CD)

SKU: 8424562204188
Dhs. 79.00

Release Date: 01.01.2021

 
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During his lifetime, Carl Friedrich Abel was fêted all over Europe both for his supreme skills as a performer of the viola da gamba as well as for the quality of his compositions, and was responsible (along with J.C. Bach) for setting up arguably the first series of subscription concerts in the history of Western music, the "Bach-Abel-Concerts". Even the prodigy that was Mozart benefited from Abel's teachings (and was claimed as the composer of one of Abel's own symphonies). 12 years after his recording of pieces from the Drexel Manuscript (for solo viola da gamba), Paolo Pandolfo teams up with an exquisite ensemble to record a fine selection of Abel's sonatas, many of them recently discovered and being recorded here for the first time. Often adding his own cadenzas and ornamentations, Pandolfo and his team offer a breathtaking and colorful display of virtuosity and sensibility. The contemporary painter Thomas Gainsborough wrote that Abel "excelled at feeling upon the instrument", while the writer of one of his obituaries likened him to Laurence Sterne, famous as the author of Tristram Shandy: "The death of Abel occasions a great loss to the musical world. Sensibility is the prevailing and beautiful characteristic of his compositions. He was the Sterne of Music." Thus, this recording is aptly entitled A Sentimental Journey- an exploration of the world of feeling paralleling Sterne's unfinished novel A Sentimental Journey though France and Italy.

Tracklist:

  1. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:67: I. Moderato (Excerpt)
  2. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:50: I. Allegro
  3. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:50: II. Adagio
  4. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:50: III. Allegro
  5. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In A Minor, A2:57a: I. Allegro
  6. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In A Minor, A2:57a: II. Adagio
  7. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In A Minor, A2:57a: III. Allegro
  8. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In A Major, A2:53: I. Adagio
  9. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In A Major, A2:53: II. Allegro Assai
  10. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In A Major, A2:53: III. Vivace
  11. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:75: I. Un Poco Vivace
  12. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:75: II. Adagio
  13. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:75: III. Vivace
  14. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In G Minor, A2:56a: I. Allegro
  15. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In G Minor, A2:56a: II. Adagio
  16. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In G Minor, A2:56a: III. Tempo Di Minuet
  17. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In G Major, A2:72: I. Moderato
  18. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In G Major, A2:72: II. Adagio
  19. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In G Major, A2:72: III. Rondeau
  20. Improvised Prelude
  21. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In E Minor, A2:7: I. Siciliano
  22. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In E Minor, A2:7: II. Allegro
  23. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In E Minor, A2:7: III. Presto
  24. Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, A2:67: I. Moderato