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viola da gamba

Last updated: Wed Oct 22 2025 10:53:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

Description

The viola da gamba is a bowed string instrument with frets that flourished during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, producing a warm, resonant tone between a cello and violin. This tag encompasses both historical performances of early music and contemporary experimental works that feature the instrument's distinctive voice. The sound evokes intimate chamber settings and courtly elegance while also appearing in modern compositions that explore its unique timbral qualities.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
67		1962	John Dowland	Dowland: Lachrimae or Seaven Teares	viola da gamba
16		1966	Johann Sebastian Bach	Bach, J.S.: Sonatas for Viola Da Gambe and Harpsichord, Bwv 1027-1029
10		1967	John Dowland	Dowland: Ayres	viola da gamba
71		1967-07	Henry Purcell	PURCELL: Fantazias	baroque
13		1974	Marin Marais	Viol Music for the Sun King	baroque	baroque # 69
65		1975	New York Consort of Viols	Dances and Canzonas of Holborne and Brade	viola da gamba
99		1975	New York Consort of Viols	Dances and Canzonas of Holborn	viola da gamba instrumental
7		1978	Georg Philipp Telemann	Music for Viola Da Gamba And Lute	baroque classical lute potpourri viola da gamba	potpourri # 62
43		1978	Jordi Savall, Ton Koopman	J.S. Bach: Die Sonaten Für Viola Da Gamba Und Cembalo
15		1985	Johann Sebastian Bach	J.S. Bach: Cello Suites & Viola da Gamba Sonatas	baroque viola da gamba
42		1988	Fretwork	J.S. Bach: Alio modo - "Passacaglia" & other keyboard works transcribed for viols	baroque
32		1989	Jordi Savall	Eustache Du Caurroy: XXIII Fantasies	viola da gamba
52		1990	Roberto Gini	J.S. Bach: Sonate a Viola da Gamba e Cembalo obligato Concerto nach Italienischen Gusto	baroque viola da gamba
98		1991	Jordi Savall	Tous Les Matins Du Monde	baroque	baroque # 32
21		1991	Jordi Savall	John Jenkins: Consort Music For Viols	baroque viola da gamba
36		1991	Phantasm	Four Temperaments	baroque viola da gamba
45		1991	Jordi Savall	François Couperin: Les Apothéoses	baroque viola da gamba
48		1991	Jordi Savall	Orlando Gibbons: Royal Fantasies Of III Parts	viola da gamba
57		1991	Jordi Savall	Tobias Hume: Musical Humors	viola da gamba
68		1991	Phantasm	Jenkins: Six-Part Consorts	viola da gamba
25		1991	Jordi Savall	Lluis De Milà: Fantasies, Pavanes & Gallardes
54		1992	Jordi Savall	Marin Marais: Alcione - Suite Des Airs À Joüer (1706)	baroque orchestral viola da gamba
11		1994	Jordi Savall	Johann Rosenmüller: Sonate Da Camera E Sinfonie	baroque viola da gamba
91		1994	Carl Friedrich Abel	Abel, C.F.: Viola Da Gamba Suites
64		1997	Hille Perl	Sainte Colombe: Retrouvé & Changé	viola da gamba
82		1997	Fretwork	Agricola: Chansons	viola da gamba
92		1997	Le Concert Des Nations, Jordi Savall	Antonio Vivaldi: La Viola Da Gamba In Concerto
6		1997-10-01	Leonard Rose;Glenn Gould	Bach: The Three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord	baroque viola da gamba
23		1998	Paolo Pandolfo	A Solo	viola da gamba
56		1998	Concordia	Orlando Gibbons: Royal Fantasies	baroque viola da gamba
72		1998	Jordi Savall	Les Voix Humaines	baroque
93		1998-09-01	Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall	Elizabethan Consort Music, 1558-1603
5		1999	Johann Gottlieb Graun	Graun: Violin Concertos / Viola Da Gamba Concerto	baroque classical viola da gamba
29		1999	Hille Perl	...per la viola da gamba...	baroque viola da gamba
58		1999	Jordi Savall, Pierre Hantaï, Philippe Pierlot, Rolf Lislevand|Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Andrew Lawrence-King, Pedro Estevan	Marin Marais: Suite D'Un Goût Etranger / Pièces De Viole Du IV Livre, 1717
14		2000	Les Voix Humaines	Purcell: Viols Fantasias	baroque viola da gamba
37		2000	Marin Marais	MARAIS / SAINTE-COLOMBE: The Greatest Masterworks	baroque
53		2000	Les Voix Humaines	Folies	baroque viola da gamba
76		2000	Chatham Baroque	Espanoleta	baroque viola da gamba
30		2001	Marin Marais	MARAIS: Viol Music for the Sun King	baroque	baroque # 81
1		2001	Jordi Savall	Matthew Locke: The Consort Of Fower Parts (Suites I To Vi)	baroque viola da gamba
86		2001	Marin Marais	Marais: Pieces de viole	baroque viola da gamba
95		2001	Marin Marais	Pieces de Viola du Quatrieme Livre - Savall	baroque viola da gamba
4		2001	Marin Marais	Marais, M.: Pieces De Viole, Book 5
2		2002	Marin Marais	Marais: Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont	baroque flute viola da gamba
47		2002	Phantasm	Lawes: Consorts in 4 and 5 Parts	baroque viola da gamba
69		2002	Marin Marais	Marin Marais - Pièces de Viole	baroque viola da gamba
78		2002	Marin Marais	Marin Marais: Pièces de viole des Cinq Livres	baroque viola da gamba
89		2002	Phantasm	Orlando Gibbons Consorts for Viols	baroque viola da gamba
3		2003	Jordi Savall	Marin Marais: Pièces De Viole Du Cinquième Livre	baroque viola da gamba
9		2003	Jordi Savall	Henry Purcell: Fantasias For The Viols	baroque
26		2003	Jordi Savall	Mr Demachy: Pièces De Viole	baroque viola da gamba
27		2003	Jordi Savall	Marin Marais: Pièces À Deux Violes Du Premier Livre	baroque viola da gamba
35		2003	Jordi Savall	Marin Marais: Pièces De Viole Du Quatrième Livre	baroque viola da gamba
40		2003	Jordi Savall	Marin Marais: Pièces De Viole Du Second Livre	baroque viola da gamba
74		2003	Jordi Savall	Antoine Forqueray: Pièces De Viole	baroque viola da gamba
79		2003	Fretwork	Thomas Tomkins: Above The Starrs	viola da gamba
80		2003	Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall	Alfonso Ferrabosco: Consort Music To The Viols In 4, 5 & 6 Parts
83		2003	Sophie Watillon	Marin Marais: La Reveuse, & autres pieces de viole
81		2003-05-19	Jordi Savall, Rolf Lislevand, Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Philippe Pierlot, Pierre Hantaï	Marin Marais: Pieces De Viole Du Second Livre, 1701
96		2003-05-21	Les Filles de Sainte Colombe	German music for Viols and Harpsichord	baroque	baroque # 20 harpsichord # 71
17		2003-09-02	Sergei Istomin	Virtuoso Solos for Viola da Gamba	baroque viola da gamba
90		2004	Tobias Hume	HUME: Captain Humes Poeticall Musicke, Vol. 1
8		2007	Musica Pacifica	Marais: Pieces for Viols	baroque viola da gamba
33		2007	Capella De Ministrers	Iudicii Signum	viola da gamba
51		2007	Capella De Ministrers	La Madrileña	viola da gamba
63		2007	Capella De Ministrers	La Spagna	viola da gamba
70		2007-05-15	Ralph Rousseau Meulenbroeks	Gambomania	baroque viola da gamba
61		2007-11-30	Ralph Rousseau Meulenbroeks	Christmas Carols	viola da gamba
50		2008	Fretwork	Birds on Fire - Jewish Music for Viols	viola da gamba
85		2008	Fretwork	Goe Nightly Cares/Dances From Lachrimae (1604)/Consort Music	viola da gamba
49		2008	Markku Luolajan-Mikkola	BACH, J.S.: Sonatas for Viola da gamba and Harpsichord
62		2009	Hille Perl	Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord BWV 1027-1029	baroque viola da gamba
73		2009	Liam Byrne	Concrete	baroque contemporary classical viola da gamba
55		2009-03	Pieter Wispelwey	J.S. Bach: Gamba Sonatas	baroque
84		2010	Jordi Savall	The Celtic Viol II	viola da gamba
22		2010	Fretwork	J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
12		2012	Hille Perl	Loves Alchymie	classical viola da gamba
34		2013	Fahmi Alqhai	Rediscovering Spain: Fantasías, diferencias & glosas
87		2013	Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall	J.S. Bach: Die Kunst Der Fuge
20		2014	Capella De Ministrers & Carles Magraner	Llibre Vermell	viola da gamba
75		2014	Biber	Mensa Sonora 5 Musica Antiqua	baroque viola da gamba
77		2014	Hille Perl	Les Voix Humaines	viola da gamba
88		2014	Hille Perl	Doulce Memoire	viola da gamba
100		2015-04-06	Colleen	Captain of None	experimental pop viola da gamba	experimental pop # 97
41		2016-06-02	SCD	Biber Violin Sonatas	baroque classical viola da gamba violin sonata	violin sonata # 79
60		2018	Marin Marais	Pi?es de viole - J??e Hanta?& Alix Verzier (viole), Pierre Hanta?(clavecin)
18		2019	Fahmi Alqhai	A piacere: Music for Viola da Gamba	viola da gamba
46		2022	Lucile Boulanger	Les Défis de Monsieur Forqueray	viola da gamba
24		2023	Phantasm	Gibbons: Consorts for Viols	viola da gamba
94		2023	Various Artists	Tous les matins du monde	baroque
59		2023	Carl Friedrich Abel	Viola Da Gamba Recital: Pandolfo, Paolo - Ortiz, D. / Corkine, W. / Hume, T. / Sumarte, R. / Machy, S. / Marais, M. / Bach, J.S.
19			Diego Ortiz	La Gamba	viola da gamba
28			Wildcat Viols	Fairest Isle	baroque viola da gamba
31			Cem Cetinkaya	BACH - Sonata For Viola da Gamba And Harpsichord in G Minor BWV 1029	baroque viola da gamba
38			Barthold Kuijken with Les Voix humaines	Telemann: Works for Flute and Viola da Gamba	baroque viola da gamba
39			Ralph Rousseau Meulenbroeks	Back with Bach	baroque viola da gamba
44			Diego Ortiz	Doulce Mémoire	lute viola da gamba
66			Ralph Rousseau Meulenbroeks	Moved By Marais	baroque viola da gamba
97			Oberlin Consort of Viols	5 and 6 part Fantasies of William Lawes	baroque viola da gamba

Related genres

• baroque
• classical
• musique francaise
• clavecin
• harpsichord
• baroque francais
• sonata
• flute
• recorder
• lute