Essercizii per la Viola da Gamba Sofia Diniz

• Torben Klaes (b. 1987): Essercizii per la Viola da Gamba:
• 1 Klaes: Essercizii per la Viola da Gamba: No. 1, Largo 03:14
• 2 Klaes: Essercizii per la Viola da Gamba: No. 2, Grave e mesto 02:37
• 3 Klaes: Essercizii per la Viola da Gamba: No. 3, Allegro moderato 03:13
• 4 Klaes: Essercizii per la Viola da Gamba: No. 4, Adagio 03:09
• 5 Klaes: Essercizii per la Viola da Gamba: No. 5, Adagio 06:19
• 6 Klaes: Essercizii per la Viola da Gamba: No. 6, Allegro 04:25
• 7 Klaes: Essercizii per la Viola da Gamba: No. 7, Passacaille 06:08
• 8 Klaes: Essercizii per la Viola da Gamba: No. 8, Praeludium. Allegro 02:57
• 9 Klaes: Essercizii per la Viola da Gamba: No. 9, Vivace 01:42
• 10 Klaes: Essercizii per la Viola da Gamba: No. 10, Molto Adagio 05:52
• 11 Klaes: Essercizii per la Viola da Gamba: No. 11, Allegro 06:33
• 12 Klaes: Essercizii per la Viola da Gamba: No. 12, Andante 04:26
• Total Runtime 50:35

Info for Essercizii per la Viola da Gamba

Contemporary music in the old style: "Essercizii" for the viola da gamba - was that really necessary? And then also in the "old style"?. Perhaps not. For few early music instruments is there as much outstanding solo and ensemble repertoire as for the viola da gamba, be it solo pieces by Hume, Demachy or Abel, works with continuo by Marais, Forqueray or Telemann, chamber music, consort music or even solo passages in concertos, cantatas and oratorios. So no, new music in the old style for the viola da gamba was really not necessary. Nevertheless, it happened, because for the treble viol, for which these essercizii were mainly composed, the original repertoire is not as abundant as for the bass viol.

With this work, the contemporary composer and gambist Torben Klaes has written something "on his hand" that is unparalleled. Works in the "old style" which, despite the high technical demands, are a great listening pleasure for treble and bass viol performers and lovers of early music alike. To embark on the journey with the outstanding interpreter Sofia Diniz and to "conquer" this work is worthwhile.

Sofia Diniz, viola da gamba

Sofia Diniz
Portuguese born, Sofia Diniz studied music and cello in Lisbon and later specialized in historical performance practice in Cologne, Germany with Rainer Zipperling (baroque cello and viola da gamba), in Den Haag, Netherlands with Wieland Kuijken and Philippe Pierlot (viola da gamba) and Brussels, Belgium with Philippe Pierlot.

She works as a freelance gamba player throughout Europe and beyond, playing as a soloist and with several early music ensembles and orchestras such as The Spirit of Gambo (Freek Bortslap), Il Fondamento (Paul Dombrecht), Ricercar Consort (Philippe Pierlot), Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Herreweghe), Hespèrion XXI (Jordi Savall), Concerto Campestre (Pedro Castro), Ludovice Ensemble (Fernando Miguel Jalôto), Sete Lágrimas (Filipe Faria e Sérgio Peixoto) or Concerto Köln. Sofia Diniz also has her own chamber music group, Ensemble ConTrastes, which dedicates to the performance of music from the baroque period written for or with viola da gamba.

Sofia Diniz has played in numerous recordings with Sete Lágrimas for the label MU, for MIRARE with Ricercar Consort (Philippe Pierlot), for AliaVox with Hespèrion XXI (Jordi Savall), for Harmonia Mundi with Collegium Vocale Gent and Concerto Palatino (Philippe Herreweghe), and some live recordings, like of Purcells Dido and Aeneas for ARTE with Ricercar Consort and Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Pierlot).

Sofia Diniz is based in Cologne, Germany, and she plays a seven string viol by François Bodart (2007), copy of a Barak Norman model (London 1700), a seven string copy of a Collichon (Paris ca. 1680) by Henner Harders (2001), and a treble viol by François Danger (2000).

Sofia Diniz publishes her first solo recording La Lyre d’Apollon, the first integral recording of Jacques Morel’s first book of Suites for viola da gamba (1709) with the German label Conditura Records. Sofia Diniz collaborated with Edition Güntersberg (Günter and Leonora von Zadow) for the publishing of the modern edition of Jacques Morel’s four Suites for Viola da Gamba, already available to the public.

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