Concert for two equal viols

Anatoly Grindenko & Natalia Timofeeva

Music by Johannes Schenk, John Jenkins, William Young,

Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe and Louis de Caix d'Hervelois

Programme :

Johannes Schenck (1660 - 1712)

Prelude in A minor for solo viola da gamba op.8

Sonata Nr. 6 in G minor for two violas da gamba "Le Nymphe di Rheno" op.8

William Young ( ? – 1662)

Suite in D minor for solo viola da gamba John Jenkins (1592 - 1678) Suite in A minor for two violas da gamba

Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (?1640 - ?1700)

Prelude in D minor from the Tournus Manuscript

Concert XLIV "Tombeau des regrets" for two equal viols

Louis de Caix d'Hervelois (1677 - 1759)

Prelude in D minor for solo viola da gamba Johannes Schenck (1660 - 1712)

Sonata Nr. 10 in G Major for two violas da gamba "Le Nymphe di Rheno" op.8

Johannes Schenck (1660 - 1712)

Sonata No. 10 in G Major for two violas da gamba

 "Le Nymphe di Rheno" op.8

THE GAMBISTS

Natalia Timofeeva

Originally from Russia, Natalia Timofeeva is a versatile musician specialising in early music. She performs internationally as a cellist and gambist with ensembles such as Hespèrion XXI, Il Pomo d'Oro, Armonia Atenea and the Orchestre de l'Opera Royal de Versailles. She is a graduate of the P.I. Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow, where she studied modern cello with Alexander Buzlov and chamber music on a postgraduate course with Tigran Alikhanov. She studied viola da gamba with Christophe Coin at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where she obtained her Master 2 diploma in 2016. Natalia has toured extensively in Europe, Russia, South and North America, and can be heard regularly in radio broadcasts and recording projects. She teaches viola da gamba at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Versailles.

Anatoly Grindenko

 Born in Kharkov, Anatoly Grindenko studied violin at specialised schools in St Petersburg and Moscow. After graduating from the Moscow Conservatoire, he gave several concerts in Russia and abroad as a viola da gamba player, with his sister Tatiana Grindenko on violin and Alexei Lubimov on harpsichord. Then, as a member of the Orpharyon baroque trio, he took part in numerous early music festivals in Europe and the United States. In 1983, he founded the student choir of the Laure Monastery of the Trinity of Saint Sergius in Zagorsk, with the aim of restoring ancient Russian choral singing, a project that is particularly close to his heart. The following year, the choir moved to the Danilovsky Monastery in Moscow. In 1985, with the blessing of Archbishop Pitirim, the men's choir joined forces with the Moscow Patriarchate. Since then, the choir has regularly accompanied religious services, singing the motets of Old Russia in accordance with its original wishes. Quickly recognised for its excellent level of interpretation and the quality of its musical research, the choir recorded thirteen albums in France (Opus 111), three in Russia, one in Germany and another in Poland. An active, creative and erudite conductor, Anatoly Grindenko directs the choirs of numerous monasteries in Russia and abroad alongside the Patriarchate Choir. He creates a cappella programmes and programmes with the orchestra, organises master classes and continues to play his favourite instrument: the viola da gamba.