Robert Smith & Francesco Corti
Sonatas for gamba and keyboard
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Recorded live at the Muiderslot Muiden on 26 January 2023
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About this concert
No mere filler or jointing, but an indispensable element of Baroque chamber music as a whole: in sonatas with obbligato keyboards the harpsichord genuinely adds something. With four sonatas composed over a period of about twenty years, Francesco Corti and Robert Smith explore this special repertoire. In addition to Johann Sebastian Bach, Christoph Schaffrath features the programme with his characteristic style between Vivaldian Baroque and the ‘style galant’.
Programme
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonate in G minor, BWV 1029
Vivace
Adagio
Allegro1685-1750 -
Christoph Schaffrath
Sonate in A major, CSWV:F:29
Allegretto
Adagio
Allegro1709-1763 -
Pēteris Vasks
Cantata for harpsichord
*1946 -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonate in D major, BWV 1028
Adagio
Allegro
Andante
Allegro -
Robert Smith
Dido’s Torment for viola da gamba
*1980 -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonate in G major, BWV 1027
Adagio
Allegro ma non troppo
Andante
Allegro moderato
Musicians
- Robert Smith viola da gamba
- Francesco Corti harpsichord
About the performers
Robert Smith is a gambist and baroque cellist from Yorkshire. Since his victory at the Bach-Abel-Wettbewerb for viola da gamba in Köthen (2012), he has been touring Europe as a much sought-after basso-continuo player and soloist. He is a member of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and has recorded highly acclaimed CDs for Resonus Classics with his own ensemble Fantasticus. Smith plays on a 7-string 'Colichon' viola da gamba made by Pierre Bohr in Milan and on a historic 6-string instrument by Andreas Jais.
Italian harpsichordist Francesco Corti studied in Perugia, Geneva and Amsterdam. He won the Internationale Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Wettbewerb Leipzig (2006) and the MA Competition in Bruges (2007), and has given recitals in Europe, the USA, Canada, Latin America, Asia and New Zealand. He can also be heard regularly with Les Musiciens du Louvre, Ensemble Zefiro, Bach Collegium Japan and Les Talens Lyriques. Since 2018, Corti has been the regular guest conductor of Il Pomo d'Oro, with whom he has recorded several albums. His solo album Bach: Little Books was awarded a Diapason d'Or and marked as Editor's Choice by Gramophone. His recording of Handel's suites for harpsichord will be released by Arcana in spring 2022.