Viola da gamba player Lucile Boulanger has a distinctive sound, delicate and tonally precise. With this release, she offers some little-known works for the gamba by Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787), along with transcriptions for the instrument of some Bach works that are none too familiar in themselves. Boulanger states that her intention is to show the relationship between the major and the "minor" composer, and she succeeds in illuminating a little-known chapter in 18th century music here; Bach may have been Abel's teacher ...
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Viola da gamba player Lucile Boulanger has a distinctive sound, delicate and tonally precise. With this release, she offers some little-known works for the gamba by Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787), along with transcriptions for the instrument of some Bach works that are none too familiar in themselves. Boulanger states that her intention is to show the relationship between the major and the "minor" composer, and she succeeds in illuminating a little-known chapter in 18th century music here; Bach may have been Abel's teacher, and he transcribed one of Abel's works, while Abel likely took Bach's unaccompanied violin or cello suites as a model. The Abel works, compact and lying right between Baroque and Classical styles, may partly account for the commercial success of this release, but the expressive quality of Boulanger's playing probably has more to do with it. Abel was a virtuoso on the viola da gamba, but the instrument had an old-fashioned tinge in Bach's time, let alone Abel's. This fits nicely...
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Add this copy of Solo to cart. $15.24, very good condition, Sold by beneton rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Millsboro, DE, UNITED STATES, published 2022 by Alpha.
