BACH à Cembalo è Viola da Gamba Margaux Blanchard & Diego Ares

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G Minor, BWV 1029:
• 1 Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G Minor, BWV 1029: I. Vivace 05:48
• 2 Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G Minor, BWV 1029: II. Adagio 04:57
• 3 Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G Minor, BWV 1029: III. Allegro 04:10
• Sinfonia in G Minor, BWV 797:
• 4 Bach: Sinfonia in G Minor, BWV 797 02:33
• Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G Major, BWV 1027:
• 5 Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G Major, BWV 1027: I. Adagio 04:04
• 6 Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G Major, BWV 1027: II. Allegro ma non tanto 04:08
• 7 Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G Major, BWV 1027: III. Andante 02:09
• 8 Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G Major, BWV 1027: IV. Allegro Moderato 03:26
• Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006:
• 9 Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: I. Preludio (Arr. for Viola da Gamba by Margaux Blanchard) 05:57
• Sonata for Viola da Gamba in D Major, BWV 1028:
• 10 Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba in D Major, BWV 1028: I. Adagio 01:44
• 11 Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba in D Major, BWV 1028: II. Allegro 04:09
• 12 Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba in D Major, BWV 1028: III. Andante 04:11
• 13 Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba in D Major, BWV 1028: IV. Allegro 04:35
• Bist du bei mir, BWV 508 :
• 14 Bach: Bist du bei mir, BWV 508 (After an Aria from Diomedes by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel) 02:44
• Total Runtime 54:35

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In the sonatas for harpsichord and viola da gamba, Johann Sebastian Bach names the harpsichord first, as in the sonatas for harpsichord with violin or flute. There is no soloist and no accompanist. The combination of viola da gamba and harpsichord produces a moving sound. Both instruments are related to the aristocratic lute family. While the harpsichord can take on several voices, the viola da gamba has the advantage of being able to imitate the human voice. Especially in the slow movements, Margaux Blanchard and Diego Ares place themselves entirely at the service of baroque rhetoric with the highest musical ideal, vocal music.

Margaux Blanchard, viola da gamba
Diego Ares, harpsichord

Margaux Blanchard
discovers Baroque music in the course of her training in vocal polyphony and piano playing. She became fascinated by early music through the viola da gamba. Her teachers are Paolo Pandolfo, Jordi Savall and Jérôme Hantaï. In 2009 she receives her diploma at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and is awarded the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize. She plays the repertoire for viola da gamba solo, for consort, chamber music and orchestra. She performs with various ensembles, first of all with Leonardo García Alarcón's Cappella Mediterranea, with whom she recorded four CDs, but also with the ensembles Clematis, Gilles Binchois and Clément Janequin. With her own formation "Les ombres", which she founded together with Sylvain Sartre, she recorded the CDs "Concert chez la reine" and "François Couperin - Les Nations" for the label Ambronay Editions.

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