Bruno Cocset & Les Basses Réunies - Geminiani & The Celtic Earth: Give Me Your Hand (2017) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Sqr. Woodes's Lamentation on y Refusauall of His Half Pense
02. Da Mihi Manum
03. 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1: III. Violin Sonata in E Minor (Adagio-Allegro-Adagio-Tempo giusto-Adagio-Presto-Adagio-Allegro) / "My Nanio" (James Oswald)
04. The Bonny Boat Man
05. The Banks of Severn
06. Concerto Grosso No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 7 (Andante)
07. The Murrays March
08. A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick: Sonata I "The Broom of Cowdenknowe's" (Grave) / "Bonny Christy" (Andante-Grave-Presto)
09. Plea Rarkeh Na Rourkough, or a Irish Weding Improved with Diferent Divisions After an Italian Maner with a Bass and Chorus by Sig.r Lorenzo Bocchi
10. Ragg Set by a Gentleman
11. Capten Magan-Creamonea-Planksty-John Drury (Second Air)-The Seas Are Deep-Lord Gallaways Lamentation
12. A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick: Song IV "O Bessy Bell"
13. The Northern Lass
14. To Dauntin Me (Slow-Gig)
15. Barbra Allan
16. Steer Her up & Had Her Gaun
17. The Banks of Sligoe
18. When She Cam Ben She Bobed
19. A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick: Air IV "Sleepy Body"
20. John O'Connor
21. Sheebeg and Sheemore
22. Colonel John Irwin
23. The Inchanted Forrest (Andante affetuoso)

Some of the Italian musicians who came to London to ‘make their fortunes’ found themselves influenced by the Celtic lands and their rich tradition of folk music. They were in their turn admired and sometimes even copied by their counterparts in the British Isles. This recording shows the outcome of that encounter. Lorenzo Bocchi was probably the first Italian cellist to settle in Edinburgh, in 1720.

Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762) arrived in Dublin in 1733. Since 1714 he had been resident in London, where he performed with Handel, but his passion for art dealing landed him in prison. The Earl of Essex then took him under his protection in Dublin, where he swiftly acquired a high reputation. In 1749 he published in London a collection of songs and tunes arranged as sonatas for several instruments combined with a treatise that gives us much useful information on how to play this music. James Oswald (1710-1769), whom Geminiani greatly admired, was a prolific Scottish composer. Turlough O’Carolan (1670-1738), a harper who went blind at the age of eighteen, travelled throughout Ireland as an itinerant bard in the service of aristocratic families. This disc brings these four musical protagonists together in an imaginary meeting (or perhaps it actually took place!) in Dublin.