Richard Jones - Chamber Airs for a Violin (and Thorough Bass)
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Label: Glossa
Cat No: GCD921806
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 6th June 2012
Contents
Works
Chamber Airs (8) for a violin (and thorough bass)Artists
Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord)Kreeta-Maria Kentala (violin)
Lauri Pulakka (cello)
Works
Chamber Airs (8) for a violin (and thorough bass)Artists
Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord)Kreeta-Maria Kentala (violin)
Lauri Pulakka (cello)
About
Joined by violinist Kreeta-Maria Kentala and cellist Lauri Pulakka, Meyerson has now recorded all eight of the sonatas, published in London in 1735 as Chamber Airs for a Violin (and Thorough Bass), and makes evident how this contemporary of Handel developed his own individual and unpredictable style, but with plenty of echoes of music by the likes of Leclair and Corelli, as well as the earlier Baroque England thrown in for good measure.
This is technically secure and demanding music for the performers (Jones was a violinist himself, acting as the concertmaster for the Drury Lane Orchestra in London) which will be a delight for lovers of Baroque chamber music and which will serve to demonstrate, once more, how in music “the perfect is the enemy of the good” for composers caught in the long shadow of Handel.
The three musicians on this new Glossa recording talk winningly in a joint booklet interview about their pleasure in performing these idiosyncratic early Georgian violin sonatas.
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