Music to my ears
Ben Goldscheider Horn player
Over lockdown, I’ve fallen in love with the sound of Mieneke van der Velden’s playing on her and L’Armonia Sonora’s recording of JS Bach’s viola da gamba sonatas, which has the perfect balance of depth and buoyancy. The music itself is incredible – it’s so much a dialogue between the instruments, but when the parts go into one line it’s just extraordinary – and I’ve made a few arrangements of the sonatas for the horn.
L’Arpeggiata’s album is fast and ecstatic, with such a fresh take on early music
