Carl Stamitz (1745-1801)
Quatuor pour viole de gambe, violon, alto et violoncelle

Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Allegro, WKO 208
Adagio, WKO 209

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Sonate pour viole de gambe seule et basse continue en do majeur, Wq 5634

Andreas Lidl (?1740-?1789)
Sonate pour viole de gambe et violoncelle en ré majeur

Franz Xaver Hammer (1740-1817)
Sonate pour viole de gambe

François Vincent Corbelin (?-?1805)
De l'Union de l'Amour et des Arts

Ensemble Art d'Echo

Elfa Run Kristinsdottir, violon
Ildiko Ludwig, alto
Martin Seemann, violoncelle
Mira Lange, clavecin, pianoforte
Maximilian Ehrhardt, harpe à pédales

Juliane Laake, viole de gambe, direction

A genuine viola da gamba repertoire in "Viennese Classic"? From 1785, Franz Xaver Hammer worked as a viola da gamba and cello virtuoso at the court of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, which resided in the idyllic baroque palace of Ludwigslust. Thanks to his surviving scores, we are in possession of a unique classical viola da gamba repertoire in the truest sense of the word. Some of these works were composed by himself, and on the other hand, he copied and possibly also arranged works by highly regarded colleagues, including Andreas Lidl, Joseph Fiala and Carl Stamitz. This precious collec??on, carefully curated by gamba virtuoso Juliane Laake, forms the founda??on of this recording. The splendid interpreta??ons with the Ensemble Art d'Echo show how naturally the viola da gamba fits into the instrumentarium and style of the classical era.