034571176284

Abel: Mr Abel's Fine Airs

Susanne Heinrich

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDA67628

Release Date:  01 October 2007

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571176284

Genres:  Classical  Baroque  

  • Description

    Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787) was a contemporary of J C Bach, and a fashionable performer and promoter in London in the eighteenth century. By that time the viola da gamba was a rarity, but Abel’s performances sparked a revival of interest among performers and audiences. The works recorded on this disc (six of which have never been previously recorded) can be seen as musical expositions of sensibility, inhabiting the same tragic world as the gamba solos in J S Bach’s Passions. Abel’s contemporary Charles Burney commented on the musician’s ability to ‘breathe’ the notes as he played them, and this extraordinary sensitivity is present too in the beautiful playing of Susanne Heinrich.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Adagio
      • 2. Vivace
      • 3. Allegro
      • 4. Tempo Minuetto
      • 5. Adagio
      • 6. Arpeggio
      • 7. Temp Di Menuet Con Variazioni
      • 8. Moderato
      • 9. Adagio
      • 10. Fuga
      • 11. Adagio
      • 12. Allegro
      • 13. Tempo Di Menuet
      • 14. Adagio
      • 15. Allegro
      • 16. Tempo Di Menuet
      • 17. Andante
      • 18. Arpeggio
      • 19. Allegro
      • 20. Tempo Di Menuet
      • 21. Andante
      • 22. Allegro
      • 23. Allegretto
      • 24. Allegro