Jones, Richard: Chamber Airs for a Violin (and Thorough Bass)

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Jones could hardly hope for more devoted advocates than Meyerson and her Finnish colleagues, the three instrumentalists accenting the music's theatrical qualities, variegated colours and special... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th Jun 2012
Catalogue No: GCD921806
Label: Glossa
Length: 65 minutes

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Jones, Richard: Chamber Air's, Op. 2: Sonata No. 2 in C minor

Work length8:28

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Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord), Lauri Pulakka (cello), Kreeta Maria Kentala (violin)
Recorded: May 2011
Recording Venue: Kirche Zur frohen Botschaft, Berlin-Karlshorst, Germany

I. Preludio: Largo

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II. Allegro ma non presto

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III. Largo

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IV. Vivace

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Jones, Richard: Chamber Air's, Op. 2: Sonata No. 3 in G major

Work length10:55

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Kreeta Maria Kentala (violin), Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord), Lauri Pulakka (cello)
Recorded: May 2011
Recording Venue: Kirche Zur frohen Botschaft, Berlin-Karlshorst, Germany

I. Preludio: Largo

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II. Allegro ma non presto

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III. Allegro

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IV. Vivace

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Jones, Richard: Chamber Air's, Op. 2: Sonata No. 6 in B flat major

Work length8:05

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Lauri Pulakka (cello), Kreeta Maria Kentala (violin), Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord)
Recorded: May 2011
Recording Venue: Kirche Zur frohen Botschaft, Berlin-Karlshorst, Germany

I. Preludio: Andante largo

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II. Allegro

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III. Adagio

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IV. Gigg

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Jones, Richard: Chamber Air's, Op. 2: Sonata No. 1 in D major

Work length10:02

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Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord), Kreeta Maria Kentala (violin), Lauri Pulakka (cello)
Recorded: May 2011
Recording Venue: Kirche Zur frohen Botschaft, Berlin-Karlshorst, Germany

I. Preludio: Allegro

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II. Allemanda: Vivace staccato

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III. Presto - Largo

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IV. Allegro

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Jones, Richard: Chamber Air's, Op. 2: Sonata No. 4 in A minor

Work length7:51

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Kreeta Maria Kentala (violin), Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord), Lauri Pulakka (cello)
Recorded: May 2011
Recording Venue: Kirche Zur frohen Botschaft, Berlin-Karlshorst, Germany

I. Preludio: Largo

Track length2:19

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II. Allegro

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III. Giga: Allegro

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Jones, Richard: Chamber Air's, Op. 2: Sonata No. 5 in E major

Work length7:16

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Lauri Pulakka (cello), Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord), Kreeta Maria Kentala (violin)
Recorded: May 2011
Recording Venue: Kirche Zur frohen Botschaft, Berlin-Karlshorst, Germany

I. Preludio: Largo

Track length1:42

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II. Allegro

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III. Giga: Allegro

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Jones, Richard: Chamber Air's, Op. 2: Sonata No. 7 in E minor

Work length5:39

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Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord), Lauri Pulakka (cello), Kreeta Maria Kentala (violin)
Recorded: May 2011
Recording Venue: Kirche Zur frohen Botschaft, Berlin-Karlshorst, Germany

I. Allegro assai

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II. Adagio

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III. Allegro

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Jones, Richard: Chamber Air's, Op. 2: Sonata No. 8 in A major

Work length7:39

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Lauri Pulakka (cello), Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord), Kreeta Maria Kentala (violin)
Recorded: May 2011
Recording Venue: Kirche Zur frohen Botschaft, Berlin-Karlshorst, Germany

I. Preludio: Largo

Track length2:25

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II. Vivace

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III. Largo

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IV. Allegro

Track length2:16

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Emboldened by her experience of playing the 6 Sets of Lessons by Richard Jones, already released on Glossa, and chancing upon another book of music which included violin sonatas by Jones, Mitzi Meyerson resolved to champion further this forgotten musical figure from the first half of the 18th century in England, in a manner comparable to her earlier defence of Muffat and Balbastre.

Joined by violinist Kreeta-Maria Kentala and cellist Lauri Pulakka, Meyerson has now recorded all eight of the sonatas, published in London in 1735 as Chamber Airs for a Violin (and Thorough Bass), and makes evident how this contemporary of Handel developed his own individual and unpredictable style, but with plenty of echoes of music by the likes of Leclair and Corelli, as well as the earlier Baroque England thrown in for good measure. This is technically secure and demanding music for the performers - Jones was a violinist himself, acting as the concertmaster for the Drury Lane Orchestra in London – which will be a delight for lovers of Baroque chamber music and which will serve to demonstrate, once more, how in music “the perfect is the enemy of the good” for composers caught in the long shadow of Georg Friedrich Handel.

The three musicians on this new Glossa recording talk winningly in a joint booklet interview about their pleasure in performing these idiosyncratic early Georgian violin sonatas.

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December 2012

Jones could hardly hope for more devoted advocates than Meyerson and her Finnish colleagues, the three instrumentalists accenting the music's theatrical qualities, variegated colours and special effects. Their sound is robust and sinewy - most effective in the more extrovert movements, if rather too blustery for the lyrical ones.

October 2012

Jones's unpredictable leaps and intervals...are a wizard's brew of Corelli trio sonatas and Vivaldi concertos underpinned by a sinuous Handelian humour that makes it not just unique, but that rare beast in this genre: music actually engaging enough to bear repeated listening...this disc is an electric reminder that this sort of music, when played sympathetically, can take on a life of its own

Jones, Richard: Chamber Airs for a Violin (and Thorough Bass)

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