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Title: Sonatas for Viola Da Gamba (Luolajan-mikkola, Spanyi)
Condition: New
Format: CD
EAN: 7318590010617
Edition: Album
Genre: Classical
Style: Chamber
Release Date: 28/02/2000
Description: AMAZON
Markku Luolajan-Mikkola was a founder of the Phantasm viol quartet; Miklós Sp´nyi has given recitals throughout Europe and twice won international harpsichord competitions. Together they present a programme of four Bach sonatas for viola da gamba and keyboard, Sp´nyi choosing to use the tangent-piano. Derived from the keyboards Bach knew, the sound is somewhere between harpsichord and modern piano, and blends effectively with the viola da gamba. There is virtuoso playing here, not in any superficial, flamboyant sense of showmanship, but simply because it is required to realise this concentrated music. Luolajan-Mikkola offers very focused, almost mathematically precise playing with clear intonation and accurate vibrato. Sp´nyi's alternately soft or spiky tangent-piano extends from providing a textured, detailed background to becoming intimately interwoven with the viola da gamba. In the indefinable musical space between the players, Bach's benign detachment is captured, a musical world existing in its own timeless realm. The musicianship would seem almost inhumanly too perfect, were it not that it mysteriously communicates the indescribable. All this is complemented by a recording which is both very detailed and naturally balanced, the result being a very distinguished release indeed. --Gary S Dalkin
No Of Discs: 1
Artist: Bach, Johann Sebastian
Record Label: Bis
MPN: BISCD1061
Release Year: 2000

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