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Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)Sonatas for viola | Susanne Heinrich (viola da gamba) | Stock Code: cd0703
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| Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Sonatas for viola da gamba Susanne Heinrich (viola da gamba) Gramophone Awards 2008 GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787) was a contemporary of J C Bach, and a fashionable performer and promoter in London in the eighteenth century. By that time the viola da gamba was a rarity, but Abel's performances sparked a revival of interest among performers and audiences. The works recorded on this disc (six of which have never been previously recorded) can be seen as musical expositions of sensibility, inhabiting the same tragic world as the gamba solos in J S Bach's Passions. Abel's contemporary Charles Burney commented on the musician's ability to ‘breathe' the notes as he played them, and this extraordinary sensitivity is present too in the beautiful playing of Susanne Heinrich. |
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