Album info

Album-Release:
2018

HRA-Release:
13.04.2018

Label: Sony Classical

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

Artist: Nils Mönkemeyer

Composer: Robert de Visée, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Michel Lambert (1610-1696)

Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)

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  • Robert de Visée (ca.1660-1732):
  • 1 Pièces de théorbe et de luth: Suite in F Minor: I. Allemande, "La Plainte" 03:56
  • 2 Pièces de théorbe et de luth: Suite in F Minor: II. Courante 01:39
  • 3 Pièces de théorbe et de luth: Suite in F Minor: III. Gigue 01:35
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
  • 4 Suite No. 5 for Viola and Theorbe in G Minor, BWV 995: I. Prélude 05:32
  • 5 Suite No. 5 for Viola Solo in C Minor, BWV 1011: I. Prélude 05:58
  • 6 Suite No. 5 for Viola and Theorbe in G Minor, BWV 995: II. Allemande 04:31
  • 7 Suite No. 5 for Viola Solo in C Minor, BWV 1011: II. Allemande 04:50
  • 8 Suite No. 5 for Viola and Theorbe in G Minor, BWV 995: III. Courante 02:01
  • 9 Suite No. 5 for Viola Solo in C Minor, BWV 1011: III. Courante 01:44
  • 10 Suite No. 5 for Viola and Theorbe in G Minor, BWV 995: IV. Sarabande 04:30
  • 11 Suite No. 5 for Viola Solo in C Minor, BWV 1011: IV. Sarabande 05:04
  • 12 Suite No. 5 for Viola and Theorbe in G Minor, BWV 995: V. Gavotte 1 & 2 05:23
  • 13 Suite No. 5 for Viola Solo in C Minor, BWV 1011: V. Gavotte 1 & 2 04:58
  • 14 Suite No. 5 for Viola and Theorbe in G Minor, BWV 995: VI. Gigue 02:03
  • 15 Suite No. 5 for Viola Solo in C Minor, BWV 1011: VI. Gigue 01:36
  • 16 Rondeau in C Major for Viola and Lute, BWV 1025, No. 4 03:19
  • Michel Lambert (1610-1696):
  • 17 Airs de cour: Vos mépris chaque jour 05:39
  • 18 Airs de cour: Ombre de mon amant 04:55
  • Johann Sebastian Bach:
  • 19 Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 (Arr. for Viola and Lute) 04:29
  • Total Runtime 01:13:42

Info for Baroque



Eine Reise in die deutsche und französische Barockmusik: Für "Folia" erhielt Nils Mönkemeyer herausragende Rezensionen, und das tänzerische Album wurde zu einem Chart-Bestseller: "Es gibt auf dem Album auch musikalisch so einiges, was in Verzückung geraten lässt. Da sind irrwitzige Doppelgriffe, Akkord- und Lagenwechsel, die das Herz eines jeden Virtuosen höher schlagen lassen. [...] so mitreißend kann diese barocke musikalische Lebensfreude sein." (MDR Figaro).

Für sein neues Album hat Nils Werke des deutschen und französischen Barock ausgesucht und mit dem Lautenisten Andreas Arend und befreundeten Musikern eingespielt.

Zu hören ist eine Weltersteinspielung: die "Suite F-Moll" aus den Stücken für Théorbe und Laute von Robert de Visée (1650–1732). Dorothee Mields leiht ihren schönen Sopran den beiden selten zu hörenden Werken von Michel Lambert (1610–1696): "Vos mépris chaque jour" und "Ombre de mon amant". Von J. S. Bach wählte Mönkemeyer den berühmten Bach-Choral "Nun kommt der Heiden Heiland" in einer Fassung für Viola und Laute sowie die Suite für Viola Solo BWV 1011, die er geschickt mit der Suite BWV 995 für Viola und Thorbe verschränkt, die beide auf den gleichen Melodien basieren. Von Bach und Weiss stammt das Rondeau BWV 1025.

Nils Mönkemeyer, Viola
Dorothee Mields, Soprano
Sara Kim, Viola
Andreas Arend, Theorbe, Laute
Niklas Trüstedt, Violine



Nils Mönkemeyer
Artistic brilliance and innovative programming are the trademarks with which the Bremen native Nils Mönkemeyer has, in a short time, achieved international renown as a musician while drawing enormous new attention to the viola.

As an exclusive Sony Classical artist, he has brought out several critically acclaimed, award-winning CDs in the last years, all of which have made their way into the German classical charts. The programmes of this and Mönkemeyer’s previous recordings encompass discoveries and first recordings of original viola literature ranging from the 18th century to modern pieces, as well as his own transcriptions. 2017 will mark the release of the newest recording with works by Walton, Bruch and Pärt and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Markus Poschner.

Nils Mönkemeyer has collaborated with such conductors as Sylvain Cambreling, Elias Grandy, Christopher Hogwood, Cornelius Meister, Mark Minkowski, Michael Sanderling, Clemens Schuldt, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Markus Stenz, Mario Venzago and Simone Young, including orchestras like the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Helsinki Philharmonic, Musiciens du Louvre, Berne Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, Staatskapelle Weimar, Bremen and Hamburg Philharmonic, Dusseldorf Symphony Orchestra, MDR and NDR Radio Orchestras and the Berlin Baroque Soloists.

In the season 2017/18 he will appear as soloist at major international concert venues like the Musikverein Vienna, Salzburg, Helsinki Music Center, Liechtenstein, at the Philharmonie Berlin and Cologne, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Gasteig in Munich and the Alte Oper Frankfurt.g in Munich and the Alte Oper Frankfurt.

With his regular chamber music projects like the trio with Sabine Meyer and William Youn, the Julia Fischer Quartet and the duo with pianist William Youn, he will be heard on stages like the Wigmore Hall London, National Concert Hall Taipeh, Liszt Hall Budapest, Tonhalle Zurich, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Prinzregententheater Munich, Boulez Hall Berlin and at numerous festivals.

Since 2011 Nils Mönkemeyer is a professor at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Munich, where he used to study himself with Hariolf Schlichtig. Previously, he was a professor at the University of Music in Dresden and assistant professor at the Escuela Superior Musica Reina Sofia Madrid.

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