Knox Garth - D'Amore
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GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE / RECORDING OF THE MONTH HÖGSTA BETYG I NORRA VÄSTERBOTTEN "The title of this album may make it sound as though some kind of...
GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE / RECORDING OF THE MONTH
HÖGSTA BETYG I NORRA VÄSTERBOTTEN
"The title of this album may make it sound as though some kind of slushy love-fest is in store but in fact its meanings here are far more complex. The viola d'amore is an endlessly fascinating instrument, consisting as it does not only of sounds from the strings that are played, but from the so called "sympathetic strings" - those that resonate in tandem with them.
And so we have one kind of love within the instrument itself. Should one draw inferences from this? That, perhaps, any form of love is multi-faceted, awakening any number of secondary emotions? Listening to this hypnotic programme, such conclusions are hard to avoid. Garth Knox expands on his connections with his choice of repertoire, pinging back and forwards through time, from 2004 to 1685 and back again, sounds and feelings resonating across centuries. Then perhaps foremost, there is a deep love of music itself. Knox and cellist Agnès Vesterman seem to conjure up an entire range of instruments between the two of them (have a listen to see what I mean) and by the time they exit with a dizzying Celtic-style jig one is right there with them in a musical ménage that one doesn't want to end."
(Gramophone)
"This is quite simply one of the most outstandingly magical discs I have heard. From the very first notes one is totally captivated by the fantastic richness of the sound produced by the combination of the viola d'amore and the cello. ... Knox's transcriptions of Marais and Hume, not to mention of traditional melodies work marvellously, making the two instruments merge into some kind of enormously expanded viola da gamba. The contemporary works, with the exception of Knox's own inevitably idiomatic fantasy on "Malor me bat", might seem initially to work against this resonant universe built on the harmonic series, but in fact they are all carefully written with the instrument's possibilities in mind. ... The stunning sound of this remarkable CD will disappoint nobody."
(Gramophone)
Celebrated as one of the most outstanding contemporary violists through his association with the Ensemble InterContemporain and the Arditti Quartet Music and his work as a soloist, Garth Knox turns his attention to the viola d'amore for the first ECM disc issued under his name. In Knox's hands this almost-forgotten baroque instrument takes on a new life as he applies it to music from 1600 to the present day. Repertoire includes music by Tobias Hume and Marin Marais from the 17th century, by Attilio Ariosti from the 18th century, by Klaus Huber and Roland Moser from the 20th, and by Knox himself from the 21st. Garth also offers arrangements of folk music from Celtic sources that connects to his own Irish/Scottish heritage. A wonderful programme superbly played by Knox and French cellist Agnès Vesterman.
Garth Knox, viola d'amore
Agnes Vesterman, violoncello
Recorded September 2006
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Malor me bat (for viola d'amore and violoncello) - 09:16
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Les Folies d'Espagne - 10:35
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Manners of Speaking (for viola d'amore): Poem - 03:49
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Manners of Speaking (for viola d'amore): Anecdote - 02:45
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A Pavin - 06:45
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Prima Lezione: Allegro - 04:16
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Prima Lezione: Largo - 04:12
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Prima Lezione: Andante - 02:09
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Celtic Dance - 01:36
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I Once Loved a Lass - Jig - 02:35
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...Plainte... (for viola d'amore) - 05:15