Paolo Pandolfo, Rinaldo Alessandrini - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonate per viola da gamba e basso continuo (2007)

Posted By: ArlegZ

Date: 3 Oct 2021 19:50:06

C.P.E. Bach's music often has a bizarrely experimental quality mixed incongruously but fascinatingly with a conservatism born of his father's influence, and this program of early works, dating from the 1740s and 1750s, offers good examples. The opening Sonata for viola da gamba and continuo in D major, Wq 137, and concluding Trio for viola da gamba and obbligato harpsichord in G minor, Wq 88 (not a trio but a duo sonata with a written-out harpsichord part in which the right hand fully participates), are dense and a bit skittery. The conservatism is evident above all in the use of the gamba itself – these are virtually the last major works written for the by 1750 almost antiquated instrument – and in the extensive use of imitative counterpoint. Yet the music doesn't sound like J.S. Bach. It has stylized emotions that seem to point to the empfindsamer Stil or style of sensibility that came later, not quite so much as the heavy focus on this movement in gambist Paolo Pandolfo's notes would imply, but still enough to be characteristic. The central Sonata for viola da gamba and continuo in C major, Wq 88, is a less thick work, rendered with the lighter palette of the galant style. Pandolfo and harpsichordist Rinaldo Alessandrini (both players were little known at the time) are not relaxed enough in this work, but they capture the sort of gnarly mood of the opening D major piece very well, and they have a nervous virtuosity that works well in C.P.E. Bach's music. The original sound has held up well, and lovers of the rather elusive C.P.E. who missed this the first time around will want to own it.

Performer:
Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba
Rinaldo Alessandrini, harpsichord

Track List:
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
Viola da Gamba Sonata in D major, Wq. 137, H. 559
01. I. Adagio, ma non tanto
02. II. Allegro di molto
03. III. Arioso
Viola da Gamba Sonata in C major, Wq. 136, H. 558
04. I. Andante
05. II. Allegretto
06. III. Arioso
Viola da Gamba Sonata in G minor, Wq. 88, H. 510
07. I. Allegro moderato
08. II. Larghetto
09. III. Allegro assai

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