Thomas Bloch: Glassharmonica

Naxos 8.555295


Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747-1800):
[1]Largo for glassharmonica3'35
Johann Julius Sontag von Holt Sombach (* 1962):
[2]Rondeau for glassharmonica and string quartett 5'36
Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814):
[3]Adagio for glassharmonica, string quartett and double bass6'35
Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741-1801):
Sonata Nr. III for glassharmonica
[4]Recitativo1'35
[5]Andantino amoroso2'20
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756-1791):
[6]Adagio for glassharmonica , KV 356 (617a)3'07
Adagio and Rondo for glassharmonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello, KV 617
[7]Adagio4'22
[8]Rondo7'46
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
[9]Melodram - Music for Frd. Dunker's drama Leonore Prohaska (speaker and glh.) 1'00
Karl Leopold Röllig (1754(?)-1804):
Kleine Tonstücke for glassharmonica
[10]Grave1'49
[11]Comodetto1'27
David August von Apell (1754-1832):
Il trionfo della musica, Cantata
[12]9. Terzetto (S,A,T, glh. and harp)4'51
Johann Julius Sontag von Holt Sombach (* 1962):
first suite for glassharmonica
[13]Fantasie0'46
[14]Allemande2'42/td>
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848):
[15]Mad scene from Lucia di Lammermoor, arranged for S, glassharmonica and piano 15'56
Johann Julius Sontag von Holt Sombach (*1962):
first suite for glassharmonica
[16]2nd menuet (unfinished)1'16
Thomas Bloch (1962):
[17]Sancta Maria 15'55
total time70'56


Thomas Bloch: glassharmonica ([1]-[17]), speaker ([9])

Yves Le Pech: sopranista ([12])
Fabrice di Falco: counter tenor ([12]) and sopranista ([17])
Damien Top: tenor ([12])
Montserrat Sanromà: soprano ([15])

Quatour Rosamonde:
Agnès Sulem Bialobroda: violin ([2], [3])
Thomas Tercieux: violin ([2], [3])
Jean Sulem: viola ([2], [3], [7], [8])
Xavier Gagnepain: violoncello ([2], [3], [7], [8])

Marc Marder: double bass ([3])
Philip Bernold: flute ([7], [8])
Maurice Borgue: oboe ([7], [8])
Christine Icart: harp ([12])
Ettore Borri: piano ([15])

recording: Auditorium France 3 Alsace (Strasbourg), January - March, 1997 ([1]-[16], originally released as TGB 961)
Labo T (Neuilly Plaisance/F), may, 1998 ([17], originally the last track of the CD "Sopraniste" with Fabrice di Falco)