Solo Bach-Abel / Boulanger

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Alpha
Release Date
January 28, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Carl Friedrich Abel, Johann Sebastian Bach
    • PERFORMER
      Lucile Boulanger
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 28, 2022
    • UPC
      3760014197833
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA783
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846 (arr. L. Boulanger for bass viol)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    2. Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: II. Allemande (arr. L. Boulanger for bass viol)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    3. Cello Suite No.3 in C major, BWV 1009: III. Courante (arr. L. Boulanger for bass viol)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    4. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    5. V. Gavotte I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    6. 27 Pieces for Viola da gamba: Allegro, WKO 212 (arr. L. Boulanger for bass viol as Gigue)

      Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    7. Adagio, WKO 209

      Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    8. [Andante], WKO 206

      Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    9. Allegro, WKO 207

      Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    10. Prelude in C Minor, BWV 999 (arr. L. Boulanger for bass viol)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    11. Flute Partita in A Minor, BWV 1013: IV. Bourée Anglaise (arr. L. Boulanger for bass viol)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    12. [Arpeggio], WKO 205

      Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    13. [Moderato], WKO 208

      Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    14. Allegro, WKO 186

      Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    15. Fuga, WKO 196

      Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    16. [Adagio], WKO 187

      Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    17. Tempo di Menuet, WKO 200

      Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    18. Vivace, WKO 190

      Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    19. Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: I. Grave (arr. L. Boulanger for bass viol)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    20. II. Fugue: Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    21. III. Siciliana

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger

    22. Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: IV. Allegro (arr. L. Boulanger for bass viol)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Lucile Boulanger


This is Lucile Boulanger’s first solo recital. The French gambist, universally praised for her natural and moving playing – BBC Music Magazine even described her as ‘the Jacqueline du Pré of the viola da gamba’ – juxtaposes Bach with Carl Friedrich Abel, a great master of the bass viol and a close friend of the Bach family. Although Johann Sebastian never wrote for solo viola da gamba, we know that he transcribed many of his works for other instruments. So Lucile Boulanger has chosen, for example, to transcribe three dances from the Sixth Suite, ‘because it sounds particularly good on the viol, being written for five-stringed cello (a step towards the six or seven strings of the viol?). It is in D, the viol key par excellence, and its style, already somewhat galant, is reminiscent of Abel… This album gives me the opportunity to showcase the viol as both a melodic instrument – with the grain of the bow, the fragility of tone – and a polyphonic one.’