Saltarello

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Bringing all this music seamlessly together are the remarkable sonic possibilities offered by the combination of cello and viola or viola d'amore. A fiddle and electronics are added for good... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2012 More…

Release Date: 19th Mar 2012
Catalogue No: 4764501
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 59 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

September 2012

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Traditional, Johnny Cunningham, Donogh Patrick Hennessy, Winifred Horan, Trevor Hutchinson, Sharon Shannon: Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair - Arr. For Viola D'amore And Cello

Work length4:01

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Garth Knox (viola d amore), Agnès Vesterman (cello)
Recorded: 2009-12-06
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

Black Brittany

Track length4:01

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Purcell: Oedipus - Arr. For Viola D'amore And Cello

Work length3:29

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Garth Knox (viola d amore), Agnès Vesterman (cello)
Recorded: 2009-12-06
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

Music For A While

Track length3:29

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Vivaldi: Viola D'amore Concerto In D Minor, RV 393 - Arr. For Viola D'amore And Cello

Work length9:27

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Garth Knox (viola d amore), Agnès Vesterman (cello)
Recorded: 2009-12-06
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

Allegro

Track length3:23

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Largo

Track length2:19

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Presto

Track length3:45

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Knox, G: Fuga libre for viola solo

Work length7:41

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Garth Knox (viola)
Recorded: 2009-12-06
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

Hildegard von Bingen, Guillaume de Machaut: Ave, Generosa - Arr. For Fiddle And Percussion

Work length7:22

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Garth Knox (fiddle), Sylvain Lemêtre (percussion)
Recorded: 2009-12-06
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

Ave, generosa - Complainte "Tels rit au main qui au soir pleure"

Track length7:22

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Saariaho: Vent Nocturne

Work length6:58

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Garth Knox (viola)
Recorded: 2009-12-06
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

I. Sombres miroirs (Dark Mirrors)

Track length6:58

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Dowland: Second Booke Of Songes, 1600 - Arr. For Viola D'amore And Cello

Work length4:03

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Garth Knox (viola d amore), Agnès Vesterman (cello)
Recorded: 2009-12-06
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

Flow My Tears

Track length4:03

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Saariaho: Vent Nocturne

Work length5:49

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Garth Knox (viola)
Recorded: 2009-12-06
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

II. Soupirs de l'obscur (Breaths Of The Obscure)

Track length5:49

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trad.: Three Dances: Saltarello I - Ghaetta - Saltarello II

Work length5:48

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Garth Knox (fiddle), Sylvain Lemêtre (percussion)
Recorded: 2009-12-06
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

trad.: Pipe, Harp And Fiddle

Work length5:16

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Garth Knox (fiddle), Sylvain Lemêtre (percussion)
Recorded: 2009-12-06
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

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Garth Knox is one of the most versatile and audacious string players today, a member of the famous Arditti Quartet for eight years and a virtuoso viola soloist, he is now a leading exponent of the viola d’amore (the rare instrument from the Baroque era with seven playing and another seven resonating strings that allow for a particularly full and warm sound). On Saltarello he plays both instruments, as well as the fiddle, in an astonishing range of music spanning 1000 years.

From opposite ends of this timescale are Hildegard of Bingen’s Ave, generosa, a song of praise to the Virgin Mary, and Vent Nocturne, pieces for viola and electronics written for Knox by Kaija Saariaho. The adventurous programme also brings in Guillaume de Machaut, John Dowland and Purcell, a concerto for viola d’amore by Vivaldi, and a new work for solo viola by Garth himself, plus his captivating arrangements of 14th century dances and traditional Celtic tunes (he was born in Ireland and raised in Scotland). Sounds and feelings resonate across the centuries…

Knox comments: “Each of my instruments – medieval fiddle, viola d’amore and viola – brings its own perspective and sound world to the chosen pieces, and is complemented by its corresponding partner (fiddle/percussion, viola d’amore/cello and viola/electronics). The aim was to ‘bring back’ the pieces to the present day and to explore them here and now without destroying their inherent qualities.”

He is joined for different pieces by percussionist Sylvain Lemêtre or French cellist Agnès Vesterman. She also contributed to his previous “hypnotic” recital for ECM, D’Amore (4766369), named as Gramophone’s ‘Disc of the Month’ in September, 2008.

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September 2012

Bringing all this music seamlessly together are the remarkable sonic possibilities offered by the combination of cello and viola or viola d'amore. A fiddle and electronics are added for good measure but it's the massive range and depth of beauty of just these two instruments playing together that is at the heart of the recording.

22nd April 2012

Knox’s recital trades on the comparisons to be made between the delicious melancholic tints of the viola, the more silvery tones of the viola d’amore and the biting honesty of the fiddle.

25th March 2012

The viola is emerging from the shadows: Garth Knox's utterly original recital combines its dusky tones in new music...with music for the larger viola d'amore and medieval fiddle...all unified by Knox's clear-sighted vision and superb, earthy playing.

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