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| 1. Knox: Malor me bat |
| 2. Marais: Folies |
| 3. Roland Moser: Manners of Speaking - Poem |
| 4. Anecdote |
| 5. Tobias Hume: Pavan |
| 6. Ariosti: Prima Lezione - Allegro |
| 7. Largo |
| 8. Andante |
| 9. Celtic Dance |
| 10. Jig: I once loved a lass |
| 11. Huber: Plainte pour Luigi Nono |
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"Once a friend in Italy lent me a viola d'amore for a few days. I was quickly seduced by the gentle sweet sound of the seven playing strings (so rich in harmonics), and intrigued by the mysterious presence of the seven sympathetic strings which add an intimate resonance to everything that happens on the playing strings." Thus Garth Knox describes his love affair with the wonderful baroque instrument that was already a thing of the past in Mozart's time. Fascinated by its outstanding technical possibilities, Knox has experimented widely and naturally incorporated contemporary pieces here. While Swiss composer Klaus Huber's "Plainte" is based on Turkish scales, his countryman Roland Moser explores different Manners of Speaking, whereas Knox himself combines an arrangement of Ockeghem's "Malor me bat" with free improvisation. But the emotional and atmospheric spectrum is broader: there is highly attractive early music, including Ariosti's First Lesson, a masterpiece of the original viola d'amore repertoire, and two traditional Celtic pieces. For reasons of harmony and balance, Knox wrote cello parts for the pieces he arranged himself, here played by French cellist Agnès Vesterman.
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Garth Knox - (viola d'amore), Agnès Vesterman - (violoncello)
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The repetoire is a mixture of historical and contemporary - some from the brief period the instrument was in use, and some written specially for Garth Knox.
It's hard to know who exactly to recommend this to! I bought it alongside the film soundtrack 'Tous Les Matins du Monde' and that kinda works. If you like baroque, generally, or the recordings of Jordi Savall in particular, you might like this more contemporary variation on a theme. But if you like more challenging contemporary compositions, or ambient music, then you might like this too.
It's a baroque curio with one foot in the past and one in the present. Maybe it's a new genre: Baroque Ambient!
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