Viola da Gamba

A little Christmas surprise for all my supporters! Our own rendition of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", inspired by the unfortunately unpublished but incomparable arrangement by Jascha Heifetz for violin and orchestra. 
(This recording is a draft version of what will be included on "My Dusty Gramophone" album, please follow this link to find out more: www.dunjalavrova.com/my-dusty-gramophone)
Share if you like! Happy holidays! :-)

White Christmas

LIVE at VAULT Festival 2014.

Finale from our Decomposed Jazz concert on 14 February 2014 at the VAULT Festival.

The Pythagoras Ensemble
Richard Jones | violin
Aisha Orazbayeva | violin
Paula Muldoon | violin
Clifton Harrison | viola
Corentin Chassard | cello
Carter Callison | double bass
Nick Pini | double bass
Jamie Leeming | guitar

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Decomposed Improvisation - The Pythagoras Ensemble

Incantation for tenor viola da gamba and electronics

Viola da gamba: Steuart Pincombe
Performed LIVE in Fairchild Chapel, Oberlin Conservatory 2010.

NOTE: I apologise for the incessant camera clicking...the reporter there was a bit too enthusiastic the entire time but this movement has less of it... 

Sonata V In E Minor For Viola Da Gamba, Mvt. 1

Title Music for the ten-part radio fiction "Pedro Paramo" on Radio France! Starting June 2012

Francoise Daudin-Clavaud, Flute
Arnaud Dumond, Guitar
Florent Jodelet, Percussion
Sebastien Surel, Violin
Philippe Foulon, Viola da Gamba

Bolero - for Flute, Guitar, Perc.,Violin and Viola da Gamba

COUNTERPOINT on the original harp solo Just Passing By 

viola da gamba recording  = www.ernststolz.com
harp recording = ANNE = www.harpandsoul.com
mix = THIJS =  www.teejay.nl

viola da gamba/harp

Rehearsal for the premiere in March, 2013 at the Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam. Ere Lievonen, Fokker (31-tone) organ; Mikko Perkola, viola da gamba.

The introductory fanfare uses a 9-note scale (3+4+3+4+3+4+3+4+3=31 steps) in the so called Orwell temperament. The toccata is in extended meantone, making much use of septimal and neutral intervals, 1/5-tones, as well as commas that 31EDO tempers out, such as 176/175.

The viola da gamba is tuned as follows: The 7 strings are tuned to the standard A1-D-G-c-e-a-d1 (with meantone fourths). The seven frets are placed so that the pitches on the A strings are as follows: (A) Bb B C C# Cx D# E (= 3-2-3-2-2-3-3 steps of 31), enabling 21 pitches out of 31.

Fanfare en toccata voor Fokker-orgel & viola da gamba

Composer:  György Ligeti 

Sonata for Viola Solo
2nd Movement: Loop 

"The title refers to the form; the same melodic figures are repeated, continually varied rhythmically and played progressively faster in tempo.  Double-stoppings are played throughout with one of the notes always being an open string.  The performer is therefore compelled to carry out daring position changes which in the fast section of the movement creates a 'dangerous virtuosity'.  In addition, this movement must also be played in the spirit of jazz: elegant and 'relaxed'. " -  György Ligeti

Ligeti - Sonata for Viola Solo - Loop (1991)

Live recording

The Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147 is the last composition by Dmitri Shostakovich. Completed in July 1975, just weeks before his death, it is dedicated to Fyodor Druzhinin, violist in the Beethoven Quartet. 

Shostakovich - Viola Sonata Op 147 - I. Moderato

Shostakovich - Viola Sonata Op 147 - II. Allegretto

The Pythagoras Ensemble was founded in 2011 and is already developing a reputation for diverse and innovative programming in performances throughout the UK and Europe.

Our intention is to explore the extremes of a diversified concert experience where the lines between genre-classification become blurred.

The Ensemble is a collective of musicians who each bring extensive experience in musical styles from Early Music to Jazz, Latin American, Contemporary, Classical, and Rock.
 
Our musicians perform all over the world as soloists, chamber musicians and with some of London’s leading orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Britten Sinfonia. They work regularly with successful Chamber Music and Early Music ensembles, in Jazz Clubs and in the recording studio. 

The Pythagoras Ensemble varies in size according to the instrumental demands of the repertoire. This allows for flexibility of programming for large or small-scale works.

Our aim is to challenge the senses and to inspire our audiences to think outside the box, redefining expectations of the traditional Classical concert.  

Clifton Harrison | Artistic Director

Decomposed Improvisation - The Pythagoras Ensemble

The Pythagoras Ensemble

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