CD 1
Suite I in G major BWV 1007
Prélude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Menuet
I, Menuet II, Gigue
Suite II in D minor BWV 1008
Prélude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Menuet
I, Menuet II, Gigue
Suite III in C major BWV 1009
Prélude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Bourrée
I, Bourrée II, Gigue
Suite IV in E flat major BWV 1010
Prélude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Bourrée
I, Bourrée II, Gigue
CD 2
Suite V in C minor BWV 1011
Prélude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gavotte
I, Gavotte II, Gigue
Suite VI in D major BWV 1012
Prélude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gavotte
I, Gavotte II, Gigue
Since her
prize in the Belgian "Axion Classics" (Dexia bank) competition
in 1975, Viviane
Spanoghe has pursued her career with
passion and discipline. She began her studies with André Messens
at the Conservatorium of Gent, before moving on to the Folkwang Hochschule
in Essen to work with Maria Kliegel and Janós Starker. In 1979
she crowned her studies, again with Starker, at the Indiana University
Bloomington. Upon her return to Belgium in 1980, she was a laureate of
the "Tenuto" competition, and since then has performed as a
soloist both at home and abroad, with such renowned conductors as Lawrence
Foster, Janós Fürst, Leopold Hager, Jan Latham-Koenig, Jean-Pierre
Wallez and Dirk Brossé.
A passionate chamber musican, she has worked, among others, with
the late Urszula Gorniak, Levon Chilingirian, Tatiana Samouil, François-Joël
Thiollier, Ronald Van Spaendonck, Francis Orval, Luc Loubry and the Bellerophon
ensemble. Viviane Spanoghe is also a member of the Aleko trio, together
with violinist Alexeï Moshkov and pianist André De Groote.
De Groote has been her principal partner since 1981, and together they
have given concerts in Europe (notably, in the Beethovenhaus), as well
as in Japan and Africa.
Her many recordings - for labels such as Naxos, Talent, Adda, RGIP, Marco
Polo and Et'Cetera - all reflect her powerful personality, and have received
international critical and public acclaim. Capitalising on the delicate
and subtle sonority inherited from Janós Starker as a reaction
against romantic excess, she has managed nonetheless to emancipate herself
from any one school of playing, and established a style in her own right,
unambiguously affirmed by her 1984 interpretation of the two Shostakovich
concertos (with the Sofia Soloists Symphony Orchestra under Emil Tabakov),
to this day a benchmark recording of the repertoire.
Viviane Spanoghe aims to unearth and publicly promote some of the more
obscure works for cello, as well as to perform new compositions. Her extensive
repertoire reaches from the Baroque, through film music, to music of other
cultures. Several composers - August Verbesselt, Franklin and Jean Gyselynck,
Peter Swinnen, Jan Van Landeghem, Marc Matthys and Frédéric
Van Rossum, among others - have dedicated works to her, many of which
she has recorded.
Professor both of Cello and Chamber Music at the Royal Conservatorium
in Brussels, Viviane Spanoghe pursues her art and her pedagogy within
a holistic framework, based on a broad view of humanity, music and society.
As the French composer Sophie Lacaze has put it: "Vivane Spanoghe's
approach to making music - regardless of its era - founded on emotion,
together with a mesmerising sound, deep sensitivity and a sure technique,
produces performances of great intensity."
Viviane Spanoghe plays a violoncello by Francesco Rugeri (Cremona c. 1670).