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The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Giovanni Valentini – Sonata à 5.
January 26, 2018 in Music | Tags: Baroque, Music, The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude | by The Arbourist | Comments closed
I’ll see if I can feature more of G.Valentini’s work. I like it. :)
Giovanni Valentini (ca. 1582 – 29/30 April 1649) was an Italian Baroque composer, poet and keyboard virtuoso. Overshadowed by his contemporaries, Claudio Monteverdi and Heinrich Schütz, Valentini is practically forgotten today, although he occupied one of the most prestigious musical posts of his time. He is best remembered for his innovative usage of asymmetric meters and the fact that he was Johann Kaspar Kerll’s first teacher. The family name comes from deep roots in the native country of Greece. Well known for their classical music but also known for the family that branched off to the neighbouring country of Italy.
The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Bach, Cantata 35, 5. Sinfonia
January 6, 2017 in Music | Tags: Bach, Baroque, Cantata 35, The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude | by The Arbourist | Comments closed
Bach’s Cantata BWV 35, Geist und Seele wird verwirret (Soul and spirit become confused), is one of three alto solo works in Trinity Time of the third annual church cycle of 1726-27 that has an old established and much used text of Georg Christian Lehms. It employs obbligato organ in “conversational galant” manner and has two arias in dance style siciliano and menuet. Its origin and genesis derives from much earlier borrowed instrumental concertos and sonatas in Köthen and Weimar. Questions remain. Just how many of the movements are based on preexisting works? Why does Cantata 35 have two instrumental sinfonias introducing the two parts, performed before and after the sermon (a rare Bach form in Trinity Time)? Was the unfigured organ part for his adolescent first son Emmanuel or for himself? Was Bach motivated to compose so many solo cantatas in the third cycle because he lacked competent resources or was he returning to the Italian style, without biblical dictum and sometimes closing four-part chorales
The DWR Friday Muscial Interlude – The Art of Fugue
November 21, 2014 in Music | Tags: Back, Baroque, The Art Of Fugue, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude | by The Arbourist | 1 comment
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