“The music is all beautiful, quite different in its style from that of the same period in France of England. There are lovely melodies, interspersed with what can only be described as explosions of virtuoso display.” --Early Music Review, August 2013
Moravian composer and virtuoso Gottfried Finger was active throughout Europe. In the course of his life he worked in London, Munich, Vienna and Berlin amongst other places, finally dying in Mannheim in 1730. He was one of the greatest viola da gamba players of his time, and wrote some of the most elaborate and technically demanding pieces for that instrument.
Moravian composer and virtuoso Gottfried Finger was active throughout Europe. In the course of his life he worked in London, Munich, Vienna and Berlin amongst other places, finally dying in Mannheim in 1730. He was one of the greatest viola da gamba players of his time, and wrote some of the most elaborate and technically demanding pieces for that instrument.
This CD, with the Czech viola da gamba player Petr Wagner and his Ensemble Tourbillon, is the first complete recording of Finger's works for solo viola da gamba.
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