Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella - A Sentimental Journey (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

During his lifetime, Carl Friedrich Abel was fêted all over Europe both for his supreme skills as a performer of the viola da gamba as well as for the quality of his compositions, and was responsible (along with J.C. Bach) for setting up arguably the first series of subscription concerts in the history of Western music, the “Bach-Abel-Concerts”. Even the prodigy that was Mozart benefited from Abel’s teachings (and was claimed as the composer of one of Abel’s own symphonies). 12 years after his recording of pieces from the Drexel Manuscript (for solo viola da gamba), Paolo Pandolfo teams up with an exquisite ensemble to record a fine selection of Abel’s sonatas, many of them recently discovered and being recorded here for the first time. Often adding his own cadenzas and ornamentations, Pandolfo and his team offer a breathtaking and colorful display of virtuosity and sensibility. The contemporary painter Thomas Gainsborough wrote that Abel “excelled at feeling upon the instrument”, while the writer of one of his obituaries likened him to Laurence Sterne, famous as the author of Tristram Shandy: “The death of Abel occasions a great loss to the musical world. Sensibility is the prevailing and beautiful characteristic of his compositions. He was the Sterne of Music.” Thus, this recording is aptly entitled A Sentimental Journey– an exploration of the world of feeling paralleling Sterne’s unfinished novel A Sentimental Journey though France and Italy.

TRACKLIST

01. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, A2:67: I. Moderato (Excerpt)
02. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, A2:50: I. Allegro
03. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, A2:50: II. Adagio
04. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, A2:50: III. Allegro
05. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in A Minor, A2:57a: I. Allegro
06. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in A Minor, A2:57a: II. Adagio
07. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in A Minor, A2:57a: III. Allegro
08. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in A Major, A2:53: I. Adagio
09. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in A Major, A2:53: II. Allegro assai
10. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in A Major, A2:53: III. Vivace
11. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, A2:75: I. Un poco vivace
12. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, A2:75: II. Adagio
13. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, A2:75: III. Vivace
14. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in G Minor, A2:56a: I. Allegro
15. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in G Minor, A2:56a: II. Adagio
16. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in G Minor, A2:56a: III. Tempo di minuet
17. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in G Major, A2:72: I. Moderato
18. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in G Major, A2:72: II. Adagio
19. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in G Major, A2:72: III. Rondeau
20. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Pandolfo: Improvised Prelude
21. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in E Minor, A2:7: I. Siciliano
22. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in E Minor, A2:7: II. Allegro
23. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in E Minor, A2:7: III. Presto
24. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Andrea Buccarella, Thomas Boysen - Abel: Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, A2:67: I. Moderato



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