The Viola da Gamba: An Overview | Miguel Bonal · MarchVivo

The viola da gamba was a central instrument in Baroque music since its origin in the bowed vihuelas of the Aragon Crown. The theorists of its time claimed that it imitates the human voice, as the bow has a stroke almost as long as a person's normal breath. Works by Hume, Telemann, Marais, Abel and Bach are performed herein, illustrating the different stylistic conceptions of the viola da gamba in each country.

Tobias Hume (1569-1645)
The first part of Ayres (or Musical Humors)
00:00 A souldiers galliard
01:21 Loves farewell
01:42 Good again

Georg Phillipp Telemann (1681-1767)
05:16 Fantasia in G Major No. 6, TWV 40|31

Karl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
11:38 Adagio (from the Drexel Manuscript)
13:32 Allegro (from the Drexel Manuscript)
15:05 Tempo di Minueto (from the Drexel Manuscript)

Marin Marais (1656-1728)
16:28 Les voix humaines, from Deuxième livre de pièces de viole

Georg Phillipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Sonata for viola da gamba TWV 40|1
22:23 Andante
25:13 Vivace

Karl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
27:04 Arpeggiata. Prelude in D Minor for viola da gamba (from the Drexel Manuscript)

Georg Phillipp Telemann (1681-1767)
30:13 Fantasia in D Minor No. 11, TWV 40|36

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite No. 2 in D Minor for cello BWV 1008
35:11 Prélude
38:44 Allemande
41:17 Courante
43:27 Sarabande
47:20 Menuet I and II
50:26 Gigue

53:05 Prelude, from Suite No. 1 in G Major for cello BWV 1007

Miguel Bonal, viola da gamba

Concert from the series ‘’Young Performers‘’
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30 January 2022
Fundación Juan March, Madrid

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