202020. Mieneke Van Der Velden & Emmanuel Frankenberg Suites Van Bach, Marais & Couperin © Concertomedia
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About this concert

Gamba player Mieneke van der Velden and harpsichordist Emmanuel Frankenberg perform suites by Marin Marais – gamba composer par excellence – and works by Bach, Couperin and Chambonnières. This concert was recorded during the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2020.

Programme

  • Marin Marais

    Suite in G major
    Prélude (lentement) 
    Allemande la Magnifique / Double 
    Sarabande grave 
    Gigue (tres vivement) 
    (from: Pièces de viole, livre III, Paris 1711)

    1656-1728
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite in G major, BWV 1007 
    Allemande 
    Sarabande 
    Menuet

    1685-1750
  • Louis Couperin

    Prelude in E minor

    1626-1661
  • Marin Marais

    Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Praeludium

  • Marin Marais

    Prélude
    Allemande
    (from: Suite in C major, Pièces de viole, livre III)

  • Jacques Champion de Chambonnières

    Courante

    1601/02-1672
  • Marin Marais

    Menuet I & II
    Chaconne

Musicians

  • Mieneke van der Velden viola da gamba
  • Emmanuel Frankenberg harpsichord

About the performers

Mieneke van der Velden studied viola da gamba with Wieland Kuijken, and completed her studies in 1988 with the Performing Musician diploma at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. She is a versatile musician; she works with Benjamin Alard, harpsichord and Fred Jacobs, theorbo; she is also the artistic director of the ensemble L’Armonia Sonora, and performs regularly with renowned conductors and ensembles. She is the Netherlands Bach Society’s regular gamba soloist, and has played under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe, Ton Koopman, Gustav Leonhardt and Masaaki Suzuki.

Emmanuel Frankenberg is both a harpsichordist and natural horn player. He majored in both these instruments at the conservatoires of The Hague and Amsterdam, where he graduated cum laude for both instruments in 2018. Emmanuel performs in many different places in Europe, both as an ensemble player and as a soloist. He plays with the ensembles Collegium 1704, Concerto Copenhagen, Les Musiciens du Prince and Capriccio Stravagante, and is also a regular guest with ensembles such as Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Europa Galante, the Orchestra of the 18th Century, Les Talens Lyriques, Musica Amphion and Ensemble Zefiro. Emmanuel has won several prizes, including second prize in the Val de Loire Early Music Competition and first prize in the Göttingen International Handel Festival. In 2017 Emmanuel won both the Rabo-Burgemeester de Bruin prize and the O-68 prize.