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Saltarello is very much a companion album to Irish violist Garth Knox's first solo recital for ECM, D'Amore, released in 2008 -- a richly diverse collection of works for viola d'amore featuring Contemporary and Baroque repertoire as well as music from folk traditions -- periods and styles that are also represented on the new album, as well as Medieval vocal and instrumental pieces. On his first album he was joined by cellist Agnès Vesterman, who returns here, along with percussionist Sylvain Lemêtre. Besides viola d'amore, he plays modern viola and folk fiddle. Knox made the arrangements of the folk material and of the Baroque pieces. For the songs by Purcell and Dowland, one of the folk songs, and the Vivaldi Concerto in D minor, he uses viola d'amore and cello; the instruments sound gorgeous together, and he treats them as equal partners, interweaving the roles of solo and accompaniment. The English lute songs make an especially seamless transition to this instrumentation, and Dowland's Flow my Tears is wonderfully effective and affecting, a highlight of the album. Kaija Saariaho's Vent nocturne for viola and electronics, which she wrote for Knox, is a mysterious, subtly shaded evocation of the sounds of the night. Knox's own Fuga libre for solo viola is a skillful and timbrally colorful virtuoso tour de force. The Medieval dances, arranged for fiddle and percussion, are appropriately rambunctious, and in the other pieces for that combination -- folk songs and Hildegard's hymn, Ave Generosa, paired with Machaut's chanson Tels rit au matin qui au soir pleure -- the percussion is deployed with delicacy and discretion. ECM's sound is characteristically clear, clean, and immediate.
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Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair - Arr. For Viola D'amore And Cello (Johnny Cunningham)
Johnny Cunningham, ComposerLyricist - Traditional, Composer - Stephan Schellmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Winifred Horan, ComposerLyricist - Trevor Hutchinson, ComposerLyricist - Sharon Shannon, ComposerLyricist - Donogh Patrick Hennessy, ComposerLyricist - Garth Knox, Arranger, Viola d amore, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Agnès Vesterman, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 ECM Records GmbH
Oedipus - Arr. For Viola D'amore And Cello (Henry Purcell)
Henry Purcell, Composer - John Dryden, Author - Nathaniel Lee, Author - Stephan Schellmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Garth Knox, Arranger, Viola d amore, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Agnès Vesterman, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 ECM Records GmbH
Viola D'amore Concerto In D Minor, RV 393 - Arr. For Viola D'amore And Cello (Antonio Vivaldi)
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Stephan Schellmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Garth Knox, Arranger, Viola d amore, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Agnès Vesterman, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 ECM Records GmbH
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Stephan Schellmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Garth Knox, Arranger, Viola d amore, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Agnès Vesterman, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 ECM Records GmbH
Viola D'amore Concerto In D Minor, RV 393 - Arr. For Viola d'amore And Cello (Antonio Vivaldi)
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Stephan Schellmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Garth Knox, Arranger, Viola d amore, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Agnès Vesterman, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 ECM Records GmbH
Stephan Schellmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Garth Knox, Composer, Viola, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 ECM Records GmbH
Ave, Generosa - Arr. For Fiddle And Percussion (Hildegard von Bingen)
Hildegard Von Bingen, ComposerLyricist - Stephan Schellmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Guillaume de Machaut, ComposerLyricist - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Garth Knox, Arranger, Fiddle, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sylvain Lemêtre, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 ECM Records GmbH
Vent Nocturne (Kaija Saariaho)
Stephan Schellmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kaija Saariaho, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Garth Knox, Viola, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sylvain Lemêtre, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 ECM Records GmbH
Second Booke Of Songes, 1600 - Arr. For Viola D'amore And Cello (John Dowland)
John Dowland, Composer - Stephan Schellmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Garth Knox, Arranger, Viola d amore, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Agnès Vesterman, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 ECM Records GmbH
Vent Nocturne (Kaija Saariaho)
Stephan Schellmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kaija Saariaho, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Garth Knox, Viola, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sylvain Lemêtre, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 ECM Records GmbH
Traditional, Composer - Stephan Schellmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Garth Knox, Arranger, Fiddle, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sylvain Lemêtre, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 ECM Records GmbH
Traditional, Composer - Stephan Schellmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Garth Knox, Arranger, Fiddle, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sylvain Lemêtre, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 ECM Records GmbH
Album review
Saltarello is very much a companion album to Irish violist Garth Knox's first solo recital for ECM, D'Amore, released in 2008 -- a richly diverse collection of works for viola d'amore featuring Contemporary and Baroque repertoire as well as music from folk traditions -- periods and styles that are also represented on the new album, as well as Medieval vocal and instrumental pieces. On his first album he was joined by cellist Agnès Vesterman, who returns here, along with percussionist Sylvain Lemêtre. Besides viola d'amore, he plays modern viola and folk fiddle. Knox made the arrangements of the folk material and of the Baroque pieces. For the songs by Purcell and Dowland, one of the folk songs, and the Vivaldi Concerto in D minor, he uses viola d'amore and cello; the instruments sound gorgeous together, and he treats them as equal partners, interweaving the roles of solo and accompaniment. The English lute songs make an especially seamless transition to this instrumentation, and Dowland's Flow my Tears is wonderfully effective and affecting, a highlight of the album. Kaija Saariaho's Vent nocturne for viola and electronics, which she wrote for Knox, is a mysterious, subtly shaded evocation of the sounds of the night. Knox's own Fuga libre for solo viola is a skillful and timbrally colorful virtuoso tour de force. The Medieval dances, arranged for fiddle and percussion, are appropriately rambunctious, and in the other pieces for that combination -- folk songs and Hildegard's hymn, Ave Generosa, paired with Machaut's chanson Tels rit au matin qui au soir pleure -- the percussion is deployed with delicacy and discretion. ECM's sound is characteristically clear, clean, and immediate.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:53
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Garth Knox Agnès Vesterman Sylvain Lemêtre
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: ECM Records
- Genre: Classical
© 2012 ECM Records GmbH ℗ 2012 ECM Records GmbH
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