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)
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