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Abel, Carl Friedrich, Bach, Johann Sebastian, Fauré, Gabriel, Hume, Tobias, Marais, Marin, różni kompozytorzy, Schenck, Johannes, Tarrega, Francisco, Telemann, Georg Philipp

Bonal, Miguel

Alpha 1165

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.

Works:

•Hume, T: The First Part of Ayres: No. 1, Captain Humes Pavin
• Telemann: Sonata in D Major, TWV 40
• Marais, M: Pièces de viole, Livre II, Suite No. 3 in D Major: Les Voix humaines
• Schenck: Scherzi musicali, Op. 6
• Abel, C F: The Drexel Manuscript: Arpeggiata
• Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008 (Transcr. for Viola da Gamba by Miguel Bonal)
• Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Arr. for Viola da Gamba by Miguel Bonal)
• Abel, C F: The Drexel Manuscript: Adagio in D Major
• Hume, T: The First Part of Ayres: No. 48, Loves Farewell
• Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 7: No. 1, Après un rêve (Arr. for Viola da Gamba and Archute by Miguel Bonal and Jeremy Nastasi)

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19.03.2026

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