Here's the official announcement trailer for our debut CD - the first ever recording of Tommaso Giordani's Sonatas for fortepiano, viola da gamba, and violin, Op. 30. Published in 1782, they represent some of the last chamber music written specifically for the gamba. It's beautiful, inventive, and virtuosic music that deserves to be much better known. The CD also includes a sonata by Antonín Kammell, who was a friend and colleague of JC Bach and Abel. 

This is going to be a wonderful disc and will be available digitally this July and in physical release in August on Marquis Records. 

The final edit has just been sent off for mastering by the excellent Don Harder. We're so close now!

Editing of the Giordani CD continues apace and we're on schedule for a digital release in May and a physical release in June. This really is stunning repertoire - Giordani's writing is epic in scale and, in places, quite ahead of his time. Indeed, one is occasionally reminded of Mendelssohn and Beethoven in his motivic development and part writing.

​The gamba writing is similarly extraordinary in its virtuosity and suggests that Giordani might have been influenced by the music of the last great gamba player, Carl Friedrich Abel.

We can't wait to share this repertoire with everyone!

in Here we are, hard at work on our debut album! Astonishingly, Tommaso Giordani's three sonatas for violin, gamba, and fortepiano (Op. 30) have never been recorded. Published in 1782, they're something of a rarity in their use of gamba. It's absolutely wonderful music with a fascinating link to 18th-Century British aristocracy...