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TOBIAS HUME / GEORG PHILIPP TELEMAN / MARIN MARAIS / J.S. BACH
From Silence
Miguel Bonal (viola da gamba)

[ Alpha Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 13 March 2026

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Born in Zaragoza in 1999, Miguel Bonal began studying the viola da gamba at the age of seven. He continued his higher education at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, where he obtained the highest distinctions.

For his first solo recital, released as part of the Alpha Classics "Baroque Stories" series dedicated to new talent, he presents a programme of reference works written for the viola da gamba as well as transcriptions: we move from the magnificent soldierly music of Tobias Hume to the refinement of Marin Marais and Abel, from the virtuosity of Schenck to the stylistic synthesis of Telemann...

Miguel Bonal also allows us to hear all the mystery of Bach's Suite for Cello No. 2 in D minor played on the viola da gamba, before venturing into 19th-century music with Gabriel Fauré's famous Après un rêve and Francisco Tárrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra, further evidence of the timelessness of the viola da gamba.

Tracks:

Tobias Hume:
The First Part of Ayres: I. Captain Humes Pavin

Georg Philipp Telemann:
Sonata in D Major, TWV 40:1 from Der Getreue Music-Meister: I. Andante
Sonata in D Major, TWV 40:1 from Der Getreue Music-Meister: II. Vivace
Sonata in D Major, TWV 40:1 from Der Getreue Music-Meister: III. Recitativo
Sonata in D Major, TWV 40:1 from Der Getreue Music-Meister: IV. Arioso (Andante)
Sonata in D Major, TWV 40:1 from Der Getreue Music-Meister: V. Vivace

Marin Marais:
Pièces de viole, Livre II: Les Voix humaines

Johannes Schenck:
Sonata in D Minor from Scherzi musicali, Op.6: I. Preludium (no. 90)
Sonata in D Minor from Scherzi musicali, Op.6: II. Ouverture (Adagio) (no. 91)
Sonata in D Minor from Scherzi musicali, Op.6: III. Tempo di Gavotte (Vivace) (no. 92)

Carl Friedrich Abel:
The Drexel Manuscript: Arpeggiata

Johann Sebastian Bach:
Suite No.2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: I. Prélude
Suite No.2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: II. Allemande
Suite No.2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: III. Courante
Suite No.2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: IV. Sarabande
Suite No.2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: V. Menuets I & II
Suite No.2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: VI. Gigue

Francisco Tárrega:
Recuerdos de la Alhambra

Carl Friedrich Abel:
The Drexel Manuscript: Adagio in D Major

Tobias Hume:
The First Part of Ayres: II. Captain Humes Pavin

Gabriel Fauré:
Après un rêve