Cassandra Luckhardt, Pieter Dirksen, Alfredo Bernardini - J.S. Bach: Sonatas with viola da gamba & harpsichord (2009)

Cassandra Luckhardt has established an international reputation as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician and teacher on both cello and viola da gamba. Cassandra has played and recorded as principal cello with The Academy of Ancient Music, Il Complesso Barocco, Les Musiciens du Louvre and as gamba soloist with the King's Consort. As a chamber musician, Cassandra is in equally high demand, demonstrating her flexibility as both a cellist and gambist. Alfredo Bernardini specialized in the baroque oboe and plays regularly with the most outstanding Early Music groups, including Hesperion XX, Le Concert des Nations, la Petite Bande, Das Freiburger Barockorchester, The English Concert, Bach Collegium Japan and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. He has taken part in about fifty recordings, some of which received important international prizes, including the Cannes Classical. He has founded his own orchestra ZEFIRO and directed orchestras all over Europe. Pieter Dirksen performs as soloist on both harpsichord and organ and as a continuo player with diverse soloists, ensembles and orchestras. He has published widely about baroque keyboard music. He appeared in most European countries, North- and South America and Japan, and regularly gives master classes. As a soloist he specializes in the rich seventeenth-century repertoire as well as in Bach's music.