This hour features a new, special CD with early music. The freshly released album ‘The Excellency of Hand: English Viola da Gamba Duos’ of viola da gamba players Robert Smith and Paolo Pandolfo.
Christopher Simpson (ca.1605-1669)
1. Divisions for Two Viols in G Major, VdGS 28
2. Prelude No. 2 in D minor
John Jenkins (1592-1678)
3. Divisions on a Ground in D Major, VdGS 21
Christopher Simpson
4. Prelude No. 5 in A minor
John Jenkins
5. Divisions on a Ground in A minor, VdGS 19
6. Divisions on a Ground in C Major, VdGS 13
Christopher Simpson
7. Prelude No. 4 in F Major
8. Division for Two Viols in F Major, VdGS 26
Simon Ives (1600-1662)
9. Ayre for Two Bass Viols No. 1
10. Ayre for Two Bass Viols No. 2
Robert Smith (b. 1980)
11. Prelude in A minor
Christopher Simpson
12. Division for Two Viols in A minor, VdGS 25
John Jenkins
13. Divisions on a Ground in A Major, VdGS 18
Christopher Simpson
14. Prelude No. 7 in G minor
John Jenkins
15. Divisions on a Ground in G minor, VdGS 23
16. Air with Divisions in C Major, VdGS 12
Christopher Simpson
17. Division for Two Viols in F Major, VdGS 27
Robert Smith & Paolo Pandolfo – viola da gamba
(CD The Excellency of Hand: English Viola da Gamba Duos, Resonus Limited RES10186, 2017)