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A piacere

Music for viola da gamba

Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba), Arcángel (voice), Pablo Martín (Caminero, violone & double bass), Pedro Estevan, Agustín Diassera (percussion), Juan Carlos Rivera (theorbo), Rami Alqhai (viola da gamba, violotto), Johanna Rose, Ignacio del Valle (violas da gamba)

Les pleurs, the baseline of gamba repertoire, is as accomplished a performance as you could expect, confirming Alqhai as a master of the instrument; but inasmuch as the gamba was never truly... — Gramophone Magazine More…

Release Date: 10th Feb 2014
Catalogue No: GCDP33202
Label: Glossa
Length: 53 minutes

Sanz: Marizapalos

Work length4:26

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Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba)
Recorded: October - November 2013
Recording Venue: Sevilla, Spain

Murcia: Fandango

Work length4:01

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Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba), Pablo Martin (violone), Juan Carlos (theorbo), Rami Alqhai (viola da gamba), Johanna Rose (viola da gamba), Ignacio del Valle (viola da gamba), Pedro Estevan (percussion), Agustin Diassera (percussion)
Recorded: October - November 2013
Recording Venue: Sevilla, Spain

Sanz: Passacalle

Work length4:13

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Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba)
Recorded: October - November 2013
Recording Venue: Sevilla, Spain

Sanz: Canarios

Work length3:13

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Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba), Pablo Martin (violone), Juan Carlos (theorbo), Rami Alqhai (viola da gamba), Johanna Rose (viola da gamba), Ignacio del Valle (viola da gamba), Pedro Estevan (percussion), Agustin Diassera (percussion)
Recorded: October - November 2013
Recording Venue: Sevilla, Spain

Alqhai: El canto de los pajaros - Nana para Juliette

Work length6:01

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Arcangel (vocals), Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba)
Recorded: October - November 2013
Recording Venue: Sevilla, Spain

Sainte Colombe the younger: Concerto No. 44 for 2 Equal Bass Viols, "Tombeau Les Regrets"

Work length2:45

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Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba)
Recorded: October - November 2013
Recording Venue: Sevilla, Spain

Concerto No. 44 for 2 Equal Bass Viols, "Tombeau Les Regrets": IV. Les pleurs

Track length2:45

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Jean de Sainte-Colombe: Pieces for Solo Viol

Work length3:02

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Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba)
Recorded: October - November 2013
Recording Venue: Sevilla, Spain

Pieces for Solo Viol: I. Allemande

Track length3:02

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Sainte Colombe the younger: Concerto No. 7 for 2 equal bass viols, "Le pleureux"

Work length3:10

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Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba)
Recorded: October - November 2013
Recording Venue: Sevilla, Spain

I. Sarabande, "Le pleureux"

Track length3:10

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Excerpt, Rameau: Les Indes galantes: Suite

Work length3:24

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Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba), Pablo Martin (violone), Juan Carlos (theorbo), Rami Alqhai (viola da gamba), Johanna Rose (viola da gamba), Ignacio del Valle (viola da gamba), Pedro Estevan (percussion), Agustin Diassera (percussion)
Recorded: October - November 2013
Recording Venue: Sevilla, Spain

Les Indes galantes: Les Sauvages (arr. for chamber ensemble)

Track length3:24

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Marais, M: Pieces de viole, Book 2

Work length5:30

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Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba)
Recorded: October - November 2013
Recording Venue: Sevilla, Spain

Pieces de viole, Book 2: Les voix humaines

Track length5:30

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Marais, M: Pieces de viole, Book 3

Work length3:56

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Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba)
Recorded: October - November 2013
Recording Venue: Sevilla, Spain

Pieces de viole, Book 3: La Guitare

Track length3:56

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Satriani: Always with me, always with you

Work length3:40

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Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba), Pablo Martin (violone), Juan Carlos (theorbo), Rami Alqhai (viola da gamba), Johanna Rose (viola da gamba), Ignacio del Valle (viola da gamba), Pedro Estevan (percussion), Agustin Diassera (percussion)
Recorded: October - November 2013
Recording Venue: Sevilla, Spain

Bach, J S: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: III. Andante (arr. for viola da gamba)

Work length6:43

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Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba)
Recorded: October - November 2013
Recording Venue: Sevilla, Spain

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In 'A piacere' Fahmi Alqhai demonstrates once again what an expressive musician he has become, and with the viola da gamba as his “Wondrous Muse”, he recreates for CD a concert programme which he has been touring and refining over recent years. Following his ensemble album 'Rediscovering Spain' (performed with Accademia del Piacere) this new release from Glossa has a distinctively soloistic feel and approach to it, with Alqhai relishing the different moods and musical directions that his chosen musical “voice” permits him to take. Considering the instrument as so much more than a relic from the decaying aristocratic age of Louis XV in France, Alqhai demonstrates – by his choice of programme and his playing – the viol’s versatility, flexibility and depth of emotional response: music from Spanish, German and French Baroque masters of the instrument are joined by Alqhai’s own version of Joe Satriani's 'Always with me, always with you' rock number. Notably in his Satriani adaptation (but also in an old Spanish popular melody featuring the cantaor Arcángel, as well as elsewhere) Alqhai receives support from musician friends gathered at sessions in Seville, all helping to create – in marvellous sound – a new demonstration of the creative freedom that old music can allow in the right hands.

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Les pleurs, the baseline of gamba repertoire, is as accomplished a performance as you could expect, confirming Alqhai as a master of the instrument; but inasmuch as the gamba was never truly standardised as an instrument, the rest is a merry tribute to all it could have been, and can still be.

May 2014

Les pleurs, the baseline of gamba repertoire, is as accomplished a performance as you could expect, confirming Alqhai as a master of the instrument; but inasmuch as the gamba was never truly standardised as an instrument, the rest is a merry tribute to all it could have been, and can still be.

6th April 2014

The viola da gamba’s reputation for sober restraint is here laid to rest...Alqhai cannot resist sexing up Gaspar Sanz and even Rameau, adding exotic percussion here, jazzy double bass pizzicatos there. It does the music no harm at all.

A piacere

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