A PIACERE Music for viola da gamba
GCD P33202
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Fahmi Alqhai, viola da gamba
Arcángel, voicePablo Martín Caminero, violone & double bass Pedro Estevan, percussion Agustín Diassera, percussion Juan Carlos Rivera, theorbo Rami Alqhai, viola da gamba & violotto Johanna Rose, viola da gambaIgnacio del Valle, viola da gamba
Production details
1 CD - digipak - 54:11 Recorded in Sevilla in October & November 2013 Engineered by Jordi Gil Produced by Fahmi & Rami Alqhai Executive producer: Carlos CésterEnglish - Français - Deutsch - Italiano
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Gaspar Sanz & Fahmi Alqhai01 Marizápalos
Santiago de Murcia & Fahmi Alqhai02 Fandango
Gaspar Sanz & Fahmi Alqhai 03 Passacalle04 Canarios
Fahmi Alqhai (on a popular Catalonian song)05 El canto de los pájaros. Nana para Juliette
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe 06 Les Pleurs 07 Allemande08 Sarabande. Les Pleureux
Jean-Philippe Rameau & Fahmi Alqhai09 Les Sauvages
Marin Marais 10 Les Voix humaines11 La Guitare
Joe Satriani & Fahmi Alqhai12 Always with me, always with you
Johann Sebastian Bach 13 Andante (BWV 1003)
About this CD
In A piacere Fahmi Alqhai demonstrates once again what an expressive musician he has become, and with the viola da gamba as his “Wondrous Muse”, he recreates for CD a concert programme which he has been touring and refining over recent years. Quickly following on from his ensemble album Rediscovering Spain (performed with Accademia del Piacere) this new release from Glossa has a distinctively soloistic feel and approach to it, with Alqhai relishing the different moods and musical directions that his chosen musical “voice” permits him to take.
Considering the instrument as so much more than a relic from the decaying aristocratic age of Louis XV in France, Alqhai demonstrates – by his choice of programme in A piacere and his playing – the viol’s versatility, flexibility and depth of emotional response: music from Spanish, German and French Baroque masters of the instrument are joined by Alqhai’s own version of the Joe Satriani Always with me, always with you rock number. Notably in his Satriani adaptation (but also in an old Spanish popular melody featuring the cantaor Arcángel, as well as elsewhere) Alqhai receives support from musician friends gathered at the sessions in Sevilla, all helping to create – in marvellous sound – a new demonstration of the creative freedom that old music can allow for in the right hands.