in Early Music Today (Dec, 2015)
Before, during and indeed despite the modern revival of the viol, Bach’s three sonatas for viola da gamba and keyboard have long been staples of the modern cello repertoire, so it is striking that this is the first recording of the pieces using what Tatty Theo describes as a ‘regular four-string baroque cello’. The length of the three sonatas, back-to- back, is notoriously about twenty minutes short of a full disk, and Theo and Gibley have chosen to complete the recording with one of C.P.E. Bach’s sonatas for the same combination: the ‘Trio Sonata’ Wq88, which, with its obbligato harpsichord part, forms a nice complement to the three Bach sonatas.
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