From Silence

Miguel Bonal was born in 1999 in Zaragoza and began studying viola da gamba at the age of seven. He continued his studies at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, where he received the highest distinctions. For his first solo recital, published as part of the Alpha Classics "Baroque Stories" series dedicated to new talent, he presents a program with both reference works for viola da gamba and transcriptions: We move from the beautiful military music of Tobias Hume to the refinement of Marin Marais and Abel, from the virtuosity of Schenck to the stylistic synthesis of Telemann ... Miguel Bonal also lets us hear the entire secret of Bach's Suite for cello no. 2 in D minor on the viola da gamba, before we venture into 19th-century music with Gabriel Fauré's famous Après un rêve and Francisco Tárrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra, yet another testament to the timelessness of the viola da gamba.