Casonato / Abel: 6 Sonatas for Viola Da Gamba
Casonato / Abel: 6 Sonatas for Viola Da Gamba
Format: CD
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Artist: Casonato / Abel
Label: Brilliant Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5028421965659
Genre: Classical
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787) was born in Köthen, a small German city, where his father, Christian Ferdinand Abel, had worked for years as the principal viola da gamba and cello player in the court orchestra. In 1723 Abel senior became director of the orchestra, when the previous director, Johann Sebastian Bach, moved to Leipzig. The young Abel later boarded at St. Thomas School, Leipzig, where he was taught by Bach. On Bach's recommendation in 1748 he was able to join Johann Adolph Hasse's court orchestra at Dresden, where he remained for fifteen years. After that he went to England and became chamber-musician to Queen Charlotte. In 1762, Johann Christian Bach, the eleventh son of J.S. Bach, joined him in London, and the friendship between him and Abel led, in 1764 or 1765, to the establishment of the famous Bach-Abel concerts, England's first subscription concerts. In those concerts, many celebrated guest artists appeared, and many works of Haydn received their first English performance. Abel was one of the last and greatest virtuosos on the viola da gamba, an instrument whose popularity quickly declined towards the end of the 18th century. This new recording presents The Six Sonatas for viola da gamba and B.C., written to attract enthusiastic amateurs of relatively modest ability: pleasing and attractive music, indulging in charming cantabile melodies. Marco Casonato is one of Italy's foremost players of the viola da gamba. His discography includes Dowland's Lachrimae (for Brilliant Classics), Luigi Rossi's Orfeo and Monteverdi's Vespers (Glossa). He plays a copy of a Jacob Steiner six-stringed viol. "As one of the best professional players in Italy on the lute and theorbo.' Jakob Lindberg." Massimo Marchese plays the theorbo, he successfully recorded for Brilliant Classics works by Joachim van den Hove and de Visée.
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