Jones: Chamber Airs for a Violin (and Thorough Bass)
7/3/2012, 29 Tracks, 1:06:11
Featuring
Kreeta-Maria Kentala
Lauri Pulakka
Mitzi Meyerson
Richard Jones
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Interpretation
The performers, known as 'The Jones Band', changed the order of the sonatas from the original publication to create a more pleasant sequence of tonalities for the recording.
Compositional Technique
Richard Jones's violin music is noted for its extreme technical demands, including numerous double stops, unusual keys, and difficult positions, indicating a very high level of violin playing in his time.
Composer Biography
Richard Jones was a violin teacher whose most prominent pupil, Michael Christian Festing, later taught the famous composer Thomas Arne, who wrote "Rule, Britannia!".
Composition History
The works on this album, Richard Jones's "Chamber Airs for a Violin (and Thorough Bass)", were published in 1735 as his Opus 2.
Album & Artwork
The cover art for the album features the painting "Conversation in a park" (1745) by Thomas Gainsborough, which is housed in the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
Composer Biography
Richard Jones, the composer of the "Chamber Airs" on this album, was the concertmaster of the Drury Lane Orchestra in London around 1730.
Recording & Production
The album was recorded in May 2011 in Berlin-Karlshorst, Germany, at the Kirche Zur frohen Botschaft (Church of the Glad Tidings).
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