Imagination Elżbieta Sajka-Bachler, Pandolfis Consort & Matthias Krampe

• Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759): Viola da gamba Sonata in C Major:
• 1 Viola da gamba Sonata in C Major: I. Adagio 03:59
• 2 Viola da gamba Sonata in C Major: II. Allegro 03:10
• 3 Viola da gamba Sonata in C Major: III. Andante 02:48
• 4 Viola da gamba Sonata in C Major: IV. Vivace 03:35
• Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767):
• 5 Fantaisie in D Minor, TWV 33:2 04:51
• Christian Podbielski (1740 - 1792): Viola da gamba Sonata in A Major (Version for Viola di braccio & Continuo):
• 6 Viola da gamba Sonata in A Major (Version for Viola di braccio & Continuo): I. Andante 03:15
• 7 Viola da gamba Sonata in A Major (Version for Viola di braccio & Continuo): II. Vivace 01:11
• 8 Viola da gamba Sonata in A Major (Version for Viola di braccio & Continuo): III. Largo 01:34
• 9 Viola da gamba Sonata in A Major (Version for Viola di braccio & Continuo): IV. Tempo di menuetto 02:42
• Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767):
• 10 Fantaisie in A Minor, TWV 33:19 06:14
• Michel Corrette (1707 - 1795): Viola da bracchio Sonata in B-Flat Major:
• 11 Viola da bracchio Sonata in B-Flat Major: I. Allegro 02:53
• 12 Viola da bracchio Sonata in B-Flat Major: II. Aria. Andante 02:09
• 13 Viola da bracchio Sonata in B-Flat Major: III. Minuetto 01:18
• Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767):
• 14 Fantaisie in F Major, TWV 33:25 03:59
• Christian Michael Wolff (1709 - 1789): Sonata No. 4 for Harpsichord & Viola:
• 15 Sonata No. 4 for Harpsichord & Viola: I. Moderato 04:56
• 16 Sonata No. 4 for Harpsichord & Viola: II. Vivace 04:15
• Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767): Sonata in B-Flat Major, TWV 41:B3:
• 17 Sonata in B-Flat Major, TWV 41:B3: I. Largo 01:19
• 18 Sonata in B-Flat Major, TWV 41:B3: II. Allegro 02:02
• 19 Sonata in B-Flat Major, TWV 41:B3: III. Largo 01:02
• 20 Sonata in B-Flat Major, TWV 41:B3: IV. Vivace 01:56
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788): Viola da gamba Sonata in G Minor, Wq. 88, H. 510:
• 21 Viola da gamba Sonata in G Minor, Wq. 88, H. 510: I. Allegro moderato 07:48
• 22 Viola da gamba Sonata in G Minor, Wq. 88, H. 510: II. Larghetto 03:50
• 23 Viola da gamba Sonata in G Minor, Wq. 88, H. 510: III. Allegro assai 07:29
• Total Runtime 01:18:15

Info for Imagination

The viola until today oftentimes suffers from the dominance of her small sister, the violin. György Ligeti put it like this: »The violin leads, the viola remains in the shadows. But through the deep C string the viola has a unique dryness, compact, somewhat throaty with the smoky taste of wood, earth and tannin.» This wasn't always the case, composers of the Baroque era highly esteemed the sound of the viola da braccio, before it was modernized to be technically more playable, yet at the cost of lacking the original sustained sound. Pandolfis Consort with Elzbieta Sajka-Bachler, viola, Matthias Krampe, harpsichord, Hermann Platzer, archlute and Günter Schagerl, cello commence on a journey to discover the typical darker, melancholic sound of the original viola. This album by the title «Imagination» features representative concerts, sonatas and fantasias by Georg Friedrich Händel, Georg Philip Telemann, Christian Podbielski, Michel Corrette, Christian Michael Wolff and Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach on period instruments

Pandolfis Consort Vienna was founded in 2004 by Cracow Music Academy graduate Elzbieta Sajka-Bachler, violist, with the intention to bring rarely performed works by both well-known and long forgotten composers to a wider audience. Focusing mainly on baroque music, the ensemble's repertory also includes the classical and modern eras as well as contemporary compositions, which are written for Pandolfis Consort. The use of period instruments proposes an appealing task for composers to adapt their musical language and create new sounds. In 2012 Pandolfis Consort premiered comissioned works by Johanna Doderer (Austria) and Stanley Grill (USA).

Elzbieta Sajka-Bachler, viola da braccio
Matthias Krampe, harpsichord
Pandolfis Consort

Pandolfis Consort
was founded in 2004 by Cracow Music Academy graduate Elżbieta Sajka, violist, with the intention to bring rarely performed works by both well-known and long forgotten composers to a wider audience. Focusing mainly on baroque music, the ensemble is named after the viola d’amore they use, a copy of an instrument originally built by Giuseppe Galieri Pandolfis in 1728. The Consort usually performs as a four-piece (Ingrid Rohrmoser – violin and viola, Elzbieta Sajka – viola, viola d’amore and violetta, Günter Schagerl-cello, Hermann Platzer – theorbo, lute and baroque archlute). Among the distiguishing features of the ensemble is their use of the continuo theorbo cello. They have also performed with soloists, choirs and the Royal Ballet „Cracovia Danza“.

Pandolfis Consort WIEN performed at the 32nd International Festival „Music in Old Krakow“ (Poland), at the 29th International Festival of Early Music in Stary Sacz (Poland), at the Festival of Organ Music in Lohja (Finland 2007), at the opening of the 8th International Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (Poland 2009), at the 3rd International Festival of Early Music „Chiaro lo specchio dell´acqua“ in Castelfranco (Italy 2009) and at the opening of the 4th International Festival of Early Music in Wieliczka (Poland 2010).

In 2011 they played the hugely successful „Johannespassion pur“ production for the „Radiokulturhaus Wien“ and also performed at the ORF Festival „Italia mia“.

Since 2007 the Consort has been featured in their own series of concerts entitled „Music at the Church of the Teutonic Order“ in Vienna.

Booklet for Imagination