Rating: 5/5
Review:
An excellent recording
I like this disc very much.
I already have excellent recordings of these pieces by both Paolo
Pandolfo and Susanne Heinrich; this is just as good, I think.
The programme is a collection of solo pieces by Carl
Friedrich Abel, a pupil of Bach and known as the last of the great gamba
masters before the cello took its place. The pieces are inventive and
involving, and are really enjoyable music from lively dance-like movements to
lovely arpeggiated studies and thoughtful, intense adagios. I am glad that Abel
is getting a bit more attention nowadays - he deserves it.
Petr Wagner is a fine gambist and he does these pieces
proud. He is, unsurprisingly, less
flamboyant and extravert than Pandolfo but perhaps a little freer than Heinrich
in his approach. His technique is
excellent, he manages to allow the full beauty and interest of the music to
emerge and the sound of his instrument is simply beautiful –and excellently
recorded by Accent.
If I had to choose a single recording of Abel's solo gamba
music it would still probably be Suzanne Heinrich, but that's just personal
preference. This is an excellent disc of
lovely music, beautifully played and if you're looking for a recording of Abel,
this will do you very well indeed.
Warmly recommended.
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