The wonkish quality of this disc is freely acknowledged by American-Canadian viola d'amore player Thomas Georgi, who at one point writes in the booklet, "To those who have never played a stringed instrument, the following explanations on the background of the works and the use of the instrument may be altogether obscure: please don't hesitate to skip ahead. Or, please excuse my zeal as I try to explain." General listeners get very little explanation of what will probably be the main attraction for many of them, the unusual ...
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The wonkish quality of this disc is freely acknowledged by American-Canadian viola d'amore player Thomas Georgi, who at one point writes in the booklet, "To those who have never played a stringed instrument, the following explanations on the background of the works and the use of the instrument may be altogether obscure: please don't hesitate to skip ahead. Or, please excuse my zeal as I try to explain." General listeners get very little explanation of what will probably be the main attraction for many of them, the unusual instrument itself. The viola d'amore was one of the various individualistic viols of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that were supplanted by the instruments of the modern string family; it had six or seven playing strings, and its sound was often complemented by a group of sympathetic strings. One learns instead about notational and transcription problems in restoring these works from the violin versions in which most of them survive. The title "Stockholm Sonatas" and the...
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