The recording features a seven-string gamba designed by Johanna Rose and a viol maker, inspired by Stradivarius gambas but resembling a cello.
Composer Biography
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, a celebrated French gamba virtuoso, is known only by this title because his exact birth and death dates and actual name are unknown.
Composer Biography
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe's pupils included famous gambists Marin Marais and music theorist Jean Rousseau, and his illegitimate son, known as Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe the Younger, also composed for the instrument.
Album & Artwork
The album title, "7 Movements," refers to the seven-movement structures created by combining movements from suites by Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe with Bach's Cello Suites.
Compositional Technique
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe is credited with adding a seventh string to the gamba, a bottom A string, which expanded the instrument's range and expressive power.
Interpretation
Johanna Rose augmented Bach's Cello Suites BWV 1011 and 1012 by adding a movement from Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe to each, creating seven-movement structures.
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