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sun 23 jul 2017 09:00 hour

Geminiani & the Celtic earth | Les Basses Réunies.

Bruno Cocset, tenor violin.

Bruno Cocset and Les Basses Réunies.

On the CD ‘Give me your hand’ they play Irish, Scottish and Celtic folk music from the 17th and 18th century. Due to the dominance of the Italian style in Europe, Italian musicians came to London in those years. One of those musicians was Francesco Geminiani, who worked with Händel in London. Geminiani was also in the art trade and because he got into some shady business, he was threatened to end up in prison. Luckily, the count of Essex came to his rescue and provided him with a new musical post in Dublin. Geminiani then became fascinated by the traditional Irish music and started to incorporate it in his violin sonatas. In the recordings Cocset made for this CD those sonatas are alternated with short pieces by the Irish Turlough O’Carolan and the Scottish James Oswald.

Richard Myron, bass player of Les Basses Réunies

00:59 O’Carolan : Sqr. Woodes’s lamentation

03:35 Cocset : Da mihi manum/Give me your hand (Arr.)

06:41 Geminiani : Sonata for violin and basso continuo op. 1, no 3 in e minor

14:38 Oswald: The bonny boat man

17:39 Oswald: The banks of Severn

 

 

 

21:24 Geminiani : Concerto grosso, op.7 no 2 in d minor; Andante

23:03 Oswald : The Murrays march

24:44 Geminiani : The broom of Cowdenknows

28:11 Bocchi : An Irish wedding, “Plea rarkeh na rourkough”

32:19 O’Carolan : Ragg set by a gentleman

35:39 O’Carolan : Capten Magan …

 

43:01 Geminiani : O Bessy Bell and Mary Gray

45:41 Oswald : The northern lass

47:44 Oswald : To dauntin me

50:36 Oswald : Barbra Allan

52:43 Oswald : Steer her up and had her gaun

54:45 Oswald : The banks of Sligoe

57:07 O’Carolan : When she cam ben she bobed

 

Give me your hand : Geminiani & the Celtic earth

Released by Alpha Classics: Alpha 276 (2017-03)

 

Read more at Vereniging Klassieke Zaken

 

 

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