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Gambomania: Music for Viola da Gamba | Challenge Classics CC72334

Gambomania: Music for Viola da Gamba

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Label: Challenge Classics

Cat No: CC72334

Barcode: 0608917233421

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 20th July 2009

Contents

Works

Hume
“The first part of ayres for the viole de gambo alone”: My Mistresse hath a pritty thing / A Question / An Answere / Now I come

Abel
Sonata in D Minor

Marais
“Le quatrieme livre de pieces de viole”: Arabesque / La Reveuse

Hervelois
Cors de chasse in D major (arr. R. Meulenbroeks)

Schenck
“L’Echo du Danube” Sonata V in E Minor

Artists

Ralph Rousseau (viola da gamba)

Works

Hume
“The first part of ayres for the viole de gambo alone”: My Mistresse hath a pritty thing / A Question / An Answere / Now I come

Abel
Sonata in D Minor

Marais
“Le quatrieme livre de pieces de viole”: Arabesque / La Reveuse

Hervelois
Cors de chasse in D major (arr. R. Meulenbroeks)

Schenck
“L’Echo du Danube” Sonata V in E Minor

Artists

Ralph Rousseau (viola da gamba)

About

This CD provides a representative survey of the evolution of music for the bass viol, from its beginning until its extinction at the times when the Viennese classic style emerged.

The programme is framed and punctuated by works by two main figures of viol-playing, Tobias Hume (c.1569-1645), whose First Part of Ayres was the first volume of music written expressly and exclusively for the bass viol ever to be published in print; and Marin Marais (1656-1728), gamba-player at the court of Louis XIV.

Inserted in this framework are pieces by Johannes Schenck pupil of Marais’ and active in Amsterdam and Düsseldorf, by the pupil of Marais, Louis de Caix d’Hervelois, and by Karl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787).

Ralph Rousseau Meulenbroeks showed his prodigious talent at an early age, playing the piano and (bass) guitar at the age of eight. He later combined double bass studies with a masters and Ph.D. in physics. He has played double bass in the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, working with major conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

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