Rossini: Sonatas for Strings Nos. 1-3 - Hoffmeister: Double Bass Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 Minna Pensola, Antti Tikkanen, Tuomas Lehto & Niek de Groot

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Album info

Album-Release:
2017

HRA-Release:
01.12.2017

Label: BIS

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

Artist: Minna Pensola, Antti Tikkanen, Tuomas Lehto & Niek de Groot

Composer: Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812)

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  • Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868): Sonata for Strings No. 1 in G Major:
  • 1Sonata for Strings No. 1 in G Major: I. Moderato05:07
  • 2Sonata for Strings No. 1 in G Major: II. Andante03:52
  • 3Sonata for Strings No. 1 in G Major: III. Allegro02:28
  • Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812): Double Bass Quartet No. 1 in D Major:
  • 4Double Bass Quartet No. 1 in D Major: I. Allegro moderato06:21
  • 5Double Bass Quartet No. 1 in D Major: II. Adagio04:06
  • 6Double Bass Quartet No. 1 in D Major: III. Rondeau03:11
  • Gioachino Rossini: Sonata for Strings No. 2 in A Major:
  • 7Sonata for Strings No. 2 in A Major: I. Allegro07:11
  • 8Sonata for Strings No. 2 in A Major: II. Andante02:33
  • 9Sonata for Strings No. 2 in A Major: III. Allegro02:04
  • Franz Anton Hoffmeister: Double Bass Quartet No. 2 in D Major:
  • 10Double Bass Quartet No. 2 in D Major: I. Allegro moderato05:47
  • 11Double Bass Quartet No. 2 in D Major: II. Menuetto - Trio03:37
  • 12Double Bass Quartet No. 2 in D Major: III. Andante03:14
  • 13Double Bass Quartet No. 2 in D Major: IV. Rondo04:34
  • Gioachino Rossini: Sonata for Strings No. 3 in C Major:
  • 14Sonata for Strings No. 3 in C Major: I. Allegro06:08
  • 15Sonata for Strings No. 3 in C Major: II. Andante04:02
  • 16Sonata for Strings No. 3 in C Major: III. Moderato02:30
  • Total Runtime01:06:45

Info for Rossini: Sonatas for Strings Nos. 1-3 - Hoffmeister: Double Bass Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

The works gathered here hail from two different sets of string quartets: the four so-called Solo Quartets by Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Gioachino Rossini’s six String Sonatas (or Sonate a quattro). Both sets differ from the ‘normal’ configuration in that they allow a double bass to take part, albeit in different ways. Rossini, who composed his sonatas at the age of 12 (!), left out the viola and gave the double bass a more or less conventional bass role – albeit with occasional virtuosic outbursts. The sonatas were first published in an arrangement for traditional string quartet and are often heard performed by string orchestras.

In Vienna, where he was active as a composer and music publisher, Hoffmeister (1754-1812) chose a different solution than Rossini and gave his double bass player a leading role in the ensemble, letting it replace the first violin. It was no coincidence that this happened in Vienna – considering the amount of solo works for the double bass composed there, the standard of playing must have been exceptional. On the present recording, it is the Dutch player Niek de Groot who takes up Hoffmeister’s challenge in the company of a Finnish trio consisting of Minna Pensola, Antti Tikkanen and Tuomas Lehto. Niek de Groot has also edited the score of the first of the Hoffmeister quartets, which is here recorded for the first time.

Minna Pensola, violin
Antti Tikkanen, violin, viola
Tuomas Lehto, cello
Niek de Groot, double bass




Minna Pensola
performes extensively as a chamber musician and soloist collaborating with conductors such as Sakari Oramo, Olari Elts, Eva Ollikainen and John Storgårds.

She is a founding member of the most internationally successful Finnish string quartet Meta4 which is the first prize winner of the Dimitri Shostakovich String Quartet Competition (Moscow 2004) and the Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition (Vienna 2007). Meta4 performs regularly in key music capitals and concert halls around the world.

Minna Pensola is a co-founder of The Punavuori Chamber Music Society, and runs a club for classical music in her home town Helsinki since 2008. She teaches violin at the Sibelius Academy and has also acted as an artistic director of the Sysmä Summer Sounds Festival in Finland during years 2006-2012.

Pensola has studied at the Sibelius Academy, Musikhochschule Zürich and European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) and enjoyed valuable guidance of Kaija Saarikettu, Ana Chumachenko, Hatto Beyrle and Josef Rissin.

Minna Pensola plays the Carlo Bergonzi violin (1732) kindly on loan from Signe ja Ane Gyllenberg Foundation.

In her free time she looks and cleans after her two small daughters who’s impeccable logic keeps her in constant marvelling.



Booklet for Rossini: Sonatas for Strings Nos. 1-3 - Hoffmeister: Double Bass Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

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