Secret Charms (Works for Violin and Basso Continuo by Giuseppe Tartini and the Count of St. Germain) Mojca Gal & Ensemble Ad Fontes

• Giuseppe Tartini (1692 – 1770): Sonate a violino e violoncello o cimbalo, Op. 6:
• 1 Tartini: Sonate a violino e violoncello o cimbalo, Op. 6: I. Adagio 07:43
• 2 Tartini: Sonate a violino e violoncello o cimbalo, Op. 6: II. Allegro 04:28
• 3 Tartini: Sonate a violino e violoncello o cimbalo, Op. 6: III. Presto 03:21
• Comte de St. Germain (1710 - 1784): Seven Solos for a Violin. Sonata III in C Minor:
• 4 Germain: Seven Solos for a Violin. Sonata III in C Minor: I. Adagio 06:16
• 5 Germain: Seven Solos for a Violin. Sonata III in C Minor: II. Allegro 04:33
• 6 Germain: Seven Solos for a Violin. Sonata III in C Minor: III. Andante 04:00
• 7 Germain: Seven Solos for a Violin. Sonata III in C Minor: IV. Allegro 03:18
• Six Sonatas for Two Violins with a Bass for the Harpsichord or Violoncello. Sonata I in F Major:
• 8 Germain: Six Sonatas for Two Violins with a Bass for the Harpsichord or Violoncello. Sonata I in F Major: I. Molto Adagio 02:43
• 9 Germain: Six Sonatas for Two Violins with a Bass for the Harpsichord or Violoncello. Sonata I in F Major: II. Allegro moderato 05:59
• 10 Germain: Six Sonatas for Two Violins with a Bass for the Harpsichord or Violoncello. Sonata I in F Major: III. Andante amorosissimo, senza Cembalo 04:20
• 11 Germain: Six Sonatas for Two Violins with a Bass for the Harpsichord or Violoncello. Sonata I in F Major: IV. Cantabile 08:19
• Giuseppe Tartini: VI Sonate a Violino e Violoncello o Cimbalo, Opera Seconda, Sonata 1 in G Major:
• 12 Tartini: VI Sonate a Violino e Violoncello o Cimbalo, Opera Seconda, Sonata 1 in G Major: I. Largo 06:58
• VI Sonate a Violino e Violoncello o Cimbalo, Opera Seconda, Sonata 2 in G Major:
• 13 Tartini: VI Sonate a Violino e Violoncello o Cimbalo, Opera Seconda, Sonata 2 in G Major: II. Allegro 05:34
• VI Sonate a Violino e Violoncello o Cimbalo, Opera Seconda, Sonata 3 in G Major:
• 14 Tartini: VI Sonate a Violino e Violoncello o Cimbalo, Opera Seconda, Sonata 3 in G Major: III. Allegro assai 03:31
• Comte de St. Germain: Seven Solos for a Violin. Sonata I in F Major:
• 15 Germain: Seven Solos for a Violin. Sonata I in F Major: I. Adagio 04:53
• 16 Germain: Seven Solos for a Violin. Sonata I in F Major: II. Allegro 03:57
• 17 Germain: Seven Solos for a Violin. Sonata I in F Major: III. Andante 02:45
• 18 Germain: Seven Solos for a Violin. Sonata I in F Major: IV. Allegro 03:27
• Total Runtime 01:26:05

Info for Secret Charms (Works for Violin and Basso Continuo by Giuseppe Tartini and the Count of St. Germain)

"Must you not admit that, touched by his expert bowing, the hundred transformations of his playing, the sweet vibration of his trill, the speed of his runs, the brilliance of his cadenzas, the articulation and his sighs, you can imagine nothing but hearing the song of birds in the shade of the trees...? If a critic is carried away by such hymns, he must have heard something extraordinary. It was about the violin virtuoso Giuseppe Tartini who, according to his contemporaries, sang on the violin and did not play. Very similar words were spoken about the Comte de St. Germain and his "truly delightful playing". Two true grand masters of their craft, then, who were also able to bring all their virtuosity and intimacy to shine brilliantly in their compositions for the violin. Mojca Gal brilliantly performs these particularly sparkling pearls of the late baroque with the excellent support of the Ensemble Ad Fontes.

Mojca Gal, violin
Anne Simone Aeberhard, flute
Thomas Leininger, harpsichord
Bruno Hurtado Gosalvez, violoncello

Mojca Gal
is currently living in Switzerland and working as a performing artist in the field of early music and dance.

She graduated with distinction both at the Academy of music in Ljubljana in the violin class of Primoz Novsak (2008) and at the Hochschule der Kuenste Bern (2011), where she studied with Monika Urbaniak and Monika Baer. Already during her studies in Bern she showed particular interest for early music on period instruments, which later on changed her musical path. Thus she pursued her studies in form of a Master of Music Performance in Early music at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel ( violin in the early measure) in the class of Amandine Beyer.

She reguraly plays in Ensemble Ad Fontes (former Les Elemens), Arabesque, Musica cubicularis (Slovenia), Grenzklang, Freitagsakademie Bern, and others.

Ensemble Ad Fontes runs its own concert season in Kartäuserkirche in Basel since september 2017, with particular interest in less known national styles of early music, early traditional music, but also contemporary music.

Ensemble Ad Fontes
Our passion is creation of unconventional concert programmes: we are constantly in search for less known early music of different countries, collaborating with actors, dancers, contemporary composers and musicians from other music genres. This mission nurtures our concert season in Basel (running from 2017, currently under the title 'Horizons'), as well as other projects, for example our CD 'Prègon del cantante vagabundo 2020 (ARS Production), collaboration with dance company Chorea Basileae (Potsdamer Festspiele Sanssouci 2019, Freunde Alter Musik Basel 2018).

The group participated in few competitions and presentations, such as international Telemann Wettbewerb 2013 (Bärenreiter Urtext Award) and International Early Music Competition in l'Acquila (1st award and audience's award)), as well as IYAP presentation 2014.

Booklet for Secret Charms (Works for Violin and Basso Continuo by Giuseppe Tartini and the Count of St. Germain)