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Music for Gainsborough
by his contemporaries

 

Charivari Agréable

Susanne Heinrich
Kah-Ming Ng
Lynda Sayce

with

Reiko Ichise

"Just the sounds to be heard in the wealthy households whose inhabitants Gainsborough painted so memorably"

Gramophone

   

       

   


The paintings of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) constitute one of the most poignant and evocative icons of Georgian England; he painted supremely accomplished portraits of a wide social spectrum, and landscapes which capture the verdancy of England prior to the Stygian advance of the Industrial Revolution.

Gainsborough’s own creativity sought expression in music as much as in painting, which was unusual in an age when musical ability was mainly considered the preserve of the ladies.

For this musical tribute to Gainsborough, we have gathered together pieces by several of his friends; Abel, J.C. Bach, Giardini, Linley & Straube

  
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Release date: 14th June 2000
Order code: SIGCD026
Barcode: 635212002629
 
 
Carl Friedrich Abel: Sonata No. 1 in G major, from ‘The Countess of Pembroke’s Music Book’
1     - Allegretto  [3:46]
2     - Adagio [1:54]
3     - Allegro
 [2:00]
4 Johann Christian Bach: ‘Trust me wou’d you taste true pleasure’ from The Maid of the Mill [5:17]
5 Anonymous: (‘In diesen heil’gen Hallen’) from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte [2:25]
6 Thomas Linley, sen.: ‘I will never vow truth at the feet fair’  [1:37]
7 Carl Friedrich Abel: Vivace [4:32]
8 Thomas Linley, jun.:  ‘If thy too cruel bow be bent’ (arr. S. Heinrich), from In Yonder Grove (1773)  [4:01]
Rudolf Straube:
9     - Fantasie [2:45]
10     - Windsor Forest [1:19]
11     - Allegro [1:22]
12     - (The Lass of Peatie’s Mill) [1:06]
13     - Hornpipe
 [0:57]
14     - Menuet I & II [3:24]
15 Felice de Giardini: Andante from Sonata Op. 13/2 [4:45]
J. C. Bach: Sonata Op. 17/5 in A major:
16     - Allegro
 [8:33]
17     - Presto [5:02]
18 Rudolf Straube: Adagio from Sonata I [4:05]
19 Thomas Linley, sen.: ‘Ah could you possibly know’ from ‘The Posthumous Vocal Works’ [2:18]
Carl Friedrich Abel: Sonata in G major WKO 147
20     - Allegro moderato [4:45]
21     - Adagio [1:55]
22     - Rondeau [1:43]
23     - Romance/Majeur [2:23]
Total running time: [72:48]

 
 

 

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