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Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917296822 |
Catalogue number CC 72968 |
Release date 05 January 2024 |
"There is no superficiality in terms of stylized dances here. Much of this is due to the brilliant and sensitive playing by gambist Sofia Diniz, along with her two colleagues. They ensure that the often-fluid melodies that Schenk employs are well delineated and phrased, and of course the sound contains a vibrant depth."
Fanfare Magazine, 01-7-2024Portuguese born, Sofia Diniz studied music and cello in Lisbon and later specialized in historical performance practice in Cologne, Germany with Rainer Zipperling (baroque cello and viola da gamba), in Den Haag, Netherlands with Wieland Kuijken and Philippe Pierlot (viola da gamba) and Brussels, Belgium with Philippe Pierlot.
She works as a freelance gamba player throughout Europe and beyond, playing as a soloist and with several early music ensembles and orchestras such as The Spirit of Gambo (Freek Bortslap), Il Fondamento (Paul Dombrecht), Ricercar Consort (Philippe Pierlot), Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Herreweghe), Hespèrion XXI (Jordi Savall), Concerto Campestre (Pedro Castro), Ludovice Ensemble (Fernando Miguel Jalôto), Sete Lágrimas (Filipe Faria e Sérgio Peixoto) or Concerto Köln. Sofia Diniz also has her own chamber music group, Ensemble ConTrastes, which dedicates to the performance of music from the baroque period written for or with viola da gamba.
Sofia Diniz has played in numerous recordings with Sete Lágrimas for the label MU, for MIRARE with Ricercar Consort (Philippe Pierlot), for AliaVox with Hespèrion XXI (Jordi Savall), for Harmonia Mundi with Collegium Vocale Gent and Concerto Palatino (Philippe Herreweghe), and some live recordings, like of Purcells Dido and Aeneas for ARTE with Ricercar Consort and Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Pierlot).
Sofia Diniz is based in Cologne, Germany, and she plays a seven string viol by François Bodart (2007), copy of a Barak Norman model (London 1700), a seven string copy of a Collichon (Paris ca. 1680) by Henner Harders (2001), and a treble viol by François Danger (2000).
Sofia Diniz publishes her first solo recording La Lyre d’Apollon, the first integral recording of Jacques Morel’s first book of Suites for viola da gamba (1709) with the German label Conditura Records. Sofia Diniz collaborated with Edition Güntersberg (Günter and Leonora von Zadow) for the publishing of the modern edition of Jacques Morel’s four Suites for Viola da Gamba, already available to the public.
There is no superficiality in terms of stylized dances here. Much of this is due to the brilliant and sensitive playing by gambist Sofia Diniz, along with her two colleagues. They ensure that the often-fluid melodies that Schenk employs are well delineated and phrased, and of course the sound contains a vibrant depth.
Fanfare Magazine, 01-7-2024
With her length of bow, her ability to breathe breadth into the different sections, Sofia Diniz excels at restoring the emotions of slow pieces...
Supported by two partners with impeccable style (let us salute in particular the finesse and precision of harpsichordist Fernando Miguel Jalôto)...
Diapason, 01-7-2024
The Portuguese gambist Sofia Diniz is entirely equal to the challenge. The style of her playing is crisp and beautifully ornamented; and she is the master of illusion, creating the impression of two players in her unaccompanied sonatas.
American Record Guide, 01-5-2024
There is much to admire in these performances. Gambist Sofia Diniz presents these sonates with grace and generosity of sound. There's an enticing liveliness to her articulation. What I find most attractive is the unprecious way Diniz manoeuvres extremely complex figuration, rarely resorting to rubato (...)
Gramophone, 01-4-2024
Everywhere there is finesse and a refusal of ostentation - to say nothing of Sofia Diniz's sovereign technique, which triumphs in the variety of colors and sounds, and in the dialogue she weaves with her partners.
Classica, 01-4-2024
It was worth the wait. Because what the viol player Sofia Diniz (alone in the last two sonatas) and her two colleagues at the viol and harpsichord bring out of the works saturated with moods, colors and characters is simply divine. You rarely hear such intense, deep lofting and singing viol playing.
Fono Forum, 01-3-2024
The Portuguese gambist Sofía Diniz, gives here an impressive lesson of absolute control of the sound of the instrument, capable of the roughest chords and the subtlest articulations. In the solo sonatas particularly noteworthy is her mastery of the rapid changes between the upper and lower strings that give the impression of a polyphony, not to mention her legato full of nuances and poetry.
Scherzo, 01-3-2024
...L'Echo du Danube, which is considered the last musical testament of all the great viol players at the end of the 17th century.
BBC Radio 3, 17-2-2024
Schenk's beautiful collection of gamba music, published in 1703, is called L'Echo du Danube (the echo of the Danube). The Portuguese gambist Sofia Diniz has recorded this musical testament, consisting of solo pieces and sonatas with accompaniment, with Torben Klaes (also gamba) and Miguel Jalôto (harpsichord). It is a varied whole and Diniz is a narrator with a sincere and appealing voice.
De Volkskrant, 08-2-2024