Bach’s gamba sonatas - Myriam Rignol & Julien Wolfs

It hasn’t left the building yet, the viola da gamba. The hip old-timer goes all out in this Bach complete set Around 1720, the viola da gamba was on the decline: cello and double bass roared louder and were more reliable to tune. It did not stop Bach from writing the gamba literature to a climactic peak with three sonatas, which betray his fascination for the sound possibilities of the instrument. Myriam Rignol and Julien Wolfs sign for a complete set in the Kraakhuis. Starting point? ‘Old’ is something very different from ‘outdated’.