PODCAST STRAVAGANZE BAROCCHE MARAIS&TELEMANN

J.S.Bach: Allegro . Mvt. 3 Of Viola da Gamba Sonata No.3 G minor. BWV1029 Transcribed For Two Pianos by VViljanen Oct.2024.
Info of the original work:
The musicologist Philipp Spitta has described this sonata as being "of the greatest beauty and most striking originality."[6] The sonata begins with a theme by the viola da gamba, which is soon joined by the harpsichord. This is driven forward with lively figuration. The middle movement, in B♭ major, allows the parts to intertwine even more, ending with the allegro, which begins with repeated notes in the gamba part soon to be taken up by the lower harpsichord part.
The work is in three movements:
1.Vivace
2.Adagio
3.Allegro
Photo: A detail of JSB Denkmal at Thomaskirche, Leipzig projised on the view of Crab Nebula (by NASA)

J.S.Bach: 3.Allegro Of ViolaDaGamba Sonata BWV1029 Transcr. For Two Pianos

J.S.Bach: Allegro. Mvt.3 of Viola da Gamba Sonata No 3. BWV1029 Transcr. For Two Pianos

J.S.Bach: Adagio. Mvt.2 of Viola da Gamba Sonata BWV1029. Transcr. For Two Pianos by VV Oct.24, 2024.

J.S.Bach: Adagio. Mvt.2 of Viola da Gamba Sonata BWV1029. Transcr. For Two Pianos

"STRAVAGANZE BAROCCHE": LA VIOLA DA GAMBA DI LUCILE BOULANGER

Suite for cello and piano in D major by Louis de Caix D'Hervelois (1677-1759). Performers Béla Pukánszky (cello), Erzsébet Dombiné Kemény (piano). 
The recording was made at the concert on 14 November 2024 in Szeged, in the University Hall. 
Louis de Caix D'Hervelois (1670-1759) was a representative of the French Baroque and a pupil of the most famous viola da gamba virtuoso of the period, Marain Marais. Very little is known of his life, but one surviving contemporary record shows that in his youth, as cantor of the Saint Chapelle in Paris, he practised his instrument to an extraordinary degree, often at night, under the stars ...
He wrote almost exclusively for his beloved instrument. His pieces reflect the fragile grace and delicate charm of French Baroque music, often complemented by melodies well suited to the singing character of the instrument. The alternation of melodically singing and dancing characters with folk influences is also characteristic of the second viola da gamba suite, originally transcribed for cello and piano by the French cellist Louis Feuillard. The movements are Prélude, Tambourin, Musette, Plainte ("Complaint"), and Gigue. Of particular interest is the arrangement of the Tambourin and Plainte movements by composer Lajos Huszár.

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Giuseppe Sammartini's (1695 – 1750) Recorder sonata no.19, recorded at a live concert at the London International festival of Early music, November 2023

 A really beautiful sonata, with lots of drama mixed with quieter more poignant moments. The continuo voice is relatively simple which allowed me to add in lots of improvised realisations of the harmony and arpeggiated passages (over the notated steady pedal notes). It was really great fun to perform! 

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Luke Challinor - Viola da gamba

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Orlando Gibbons, Fantasia a 3

CAMERATA MELANCOLÍA
Rafael Sánchez Guevara, viola soprano
Mario Salinas Villa, viola tenor
Gabriela Villa Walls, viola bajo

Grabado en Estudio 110 - Galo Ortiz
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Orlando Gibbons: Fantasia a 3

John Baldwin: Browning a 3

CAMERATA MELANCOLÍA
Rafael Sánchez Guevara, viola soprano
Mario Salinas Villa, viola tenor
Gabriela Villa Walls, viola bajo

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John Baldwin: Browning a 3

Elway Bevin: The leaves be green

CAMERATA MELANCOLÍA
Rafael Sánchez Guevara, viola soprano
Mario Salinas Villa, viola tenor
Gabriela Villa Walls, viola bajo

Grabado en Estudio 110 - Galo Ortiz
Ciudad de México 2025


Elway Bevin: The leaves be green

Stand Down

Sabai

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Sound of the Ages

The Grand Baroque is a chamber orchestra playing the author's Russian neoclassical music by Olga Rybakova.
e-mail: rybakova.art@gmail.com

Sghembo e obsoleto cantautore e violista da gamba. 

“Harmony is next to Godliness”
J.S. Bach

My warmest thanks to everyone stopping by for listening to my  'REVIEW   OF THE PAST TIME PIANISTS' INTERPRETATIONS ON THE HISTORICAL PIANO ROLLS, and also to a minor LIST of MY MY OWN RENDITIONS, all of the latter representing a variety of piano music & some pipe-organ classics, - and  TO THE Growing LISTS OF (just lately done and reproduced)  TRANSCRIPTIONS OF VARIOUS CHAMBER MUSIC CLASSICAL PEARLS FOR TWO PIANOS.
A HEADSET IS RECOMMENDED for optimal sound experience!
This kind of 'touching' on these old pre-sound-rec. era works by the great performers of the past, and giving my sound to these old 'punch rolls',  makes me feel  deep humbleness, .and I wish that this modest attempt to bring these  performances alive will satisfy you listening to them!
To introduce myself...
I am a Finnish M.D., PhD. and Hand Surgeon (now retired), previously when young with 10 years of professionally orientated piano studies at Turku Conservatory in 1965-1975, partly  along with medical University studies. 
The digital sound techniques have become very familiar to me already from 1980's along with my university research work  
and my musical activities.
As continuation to my musical and professional experience, I have, during the last few years of my retirement, adopted a music historical challenge
to bring the past time major and minor pianists, prior to sound-recording era, onto the same 'start line' with the present pianists, by making their presentations, played onto 'punch rolls' i.e. piano rolls, audible with modern digital techniques. This wouldn't be possible without the pioneering  efforts of Richard Stibbons, Wayne Stahnke, Terry Smythe, Warren Trachtman, Spencer Chase, and others, who developed the optical digitizing techniques of the piano rolls, and digitized them.

The main part of my recordings here in SC consists of selection recorded by me from optically digitized piano-rolls** (from 1910's on or earlier, classical and 'vintage era'). These recordings of mine are not and will not be commercially unavailable. - The rolls were first optically scanned and converted into a digital form by diverse operators** (see also to the info of each piece). The pieces here were partly (minor part) picked from various open net sources, publicly available, but mainly from the huge archive (n=ca.5000) of digitized copies copies of the original reproducing piano rolls, made available to me by one of the pioneers of roll digitizing tehchniques (willing to keep anonymous), and then recorded from this archive mainly with virtual grand piano (called by me 'Bluethner Model One') modified/re-designed by me, as well as the rec settings. 
Also a minor selection of my own renditions among my records can be found here, included on my playlist 'Bach Goes Virtual', the name of the list telling something about the techniques used for getting the end result... The list includes various organ works by J.S.Bach and others, and also a few piano renditions of mine. Then there are included also various pieces which have been in my repertoire, but here played mainly by the  'guest' great players of the past (before the sound recording era).
MY MOST HUMBLE THANKS TO THE NOBLE DONOR  OF THIS INVALUABLE PIANO ROLL MATERIAL FOR MY USE!!!
My Sincere Thanks also to The Player Piano Group, UK, for providing me their permission to use the information about the piano rolls collected and provided on their web page ( https://rolls.playerpianogroup.org.uk ),  and for simplifying my short historical presentations of these renditions on their re-publication here!
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, MY MOST HUMBLE THANKS TO EVERYONE  OF YOU FOR LISTENING, AND FOR YOUR 'LIKES' & COMMENTS !
YOUR LISTENING & FEEDBACK IS TRULY APPRECIATED..!!.
Use of good headphones or speakers will make your music experience more enjoyable!
Best wishes, all the best
Veikko
These recordings are not commercially available, and ANY KIND OF THEIR COMMERCIAL USE IS PROHIBITED.

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