skaltezon

That is a nice one. Here's the album.

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Candyheart67

I think i love baroque the most of any classical period-I am new to classical but it seems to appeal to me the most

Wishsella

Did this a few days ago as my leaver's piece. Hope you guys enjoy it. Do bear in mind this was done live at school so do excuse! xx

jawbreaker

little known german composer August Kühnel, who compose for viola di gamba, could easily compared to such contemporaries as Marin Marais or Forqueray.

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VEGANGELICA

I listened to your leaver's piece when you posted it, and since you will probably never return you may never read this, but I still wanted to say that you sang Nulla in mundo pax very sweetly and beautifully, Sarah.

^ It took me a minute to realize that the musicians are playing instruments with six strings. Now I know what a viola da gamba (or viol) is, thanks to you.
Viol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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And now...

R E C O R D E R M U S I C

Telemann - Suite in A Minor

Impressive recorder playing!


Telemann - Suite in A Minor TWV55:a2 (excerpts) - YouTube


Last month I began learning (or relearning) to play the nice little wooden soprano recorder that my parents got me when I was five in Germany and that managed to survive its trip back to the U.S. and many years in storage. My goal: to play well enough so that I can join my dad in his recorder quartet as a fellow recorder player rather than a violinist. (Our group is currently four recorders and one violin, an unusual quartet.)

So my next 100 posts in this thread may be of recorder music. Just wanted to warn all you Baroque fans out there!

ABOUT GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN

I am impressed that Telemann taught himself how to play instruments and started composing against his family's wishes when he was a child.

Below is a quote that describes Telemann's determination and early clandastine life as a composer. I was amused by his mother's paranoid fear that cultivating Telemann's interest in music would start him down the slippery slope that ends in the worst of imagined professions: monkey trainer! I like how Telemann persevered in doing what he loved and was able to steep his long life in music (and also poetry, which he adored).

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VEGANGELICA

Continuing my excursion through Baroque recorder music, I present...

J.S. Bach -- "Sheep May Safely Graze" Aria from Cantata 208

In Bach's famous piece, you can hear two recorders tootling along happily in the background, evoking images of pastoral meadows.

A website about "Sheep" says, "That cantata is seldom performed today, but one of its movements--an aria for soprano with two obbligato recorders titled Schäfe können sicher weichen ("Sheep May Safely Graze")--has become some of the most famous music Bach ever wrote. The aria makes a point that would have appealed to the Duke [for whom Bach wrote the cantata]: sheep (the citizens) are safe when they are guarded by a good shepherd (the prince)." La Jolla Music Society - JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Sheep May Safely Graze

If you are interested in the political lyrics of "Sheep May Safely Graze," you can read about them here: http://www.musicbanter.com/classical...tml#post770730

Amusingly, the person who posted this video (below) on YouTube entitled it "Authentic Period Sheep May Safely Graze," about which some whippersnapper commented:

Ah, those quirky lovers of classical music.

Enjoy the authentic period sheep:


Authentic Period Sheep May Safely Graze BWV208 Hunt Cantata - YouTube

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VEGANGELICA

Now here is a beautiful Baroque piece with recorder replacing the usual violin solo:

Arcangelo Corelli - "La Folia" Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5 No. 12
with Recorder (instead of Violin) and Basso

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^ I feel the recorder in this version of "La Folia" holds its own remarkably well compared to the original where the violin plays the solo as intended by A. Corelli, especially considering what a simple little instrument a recorder is.

What's this?!? You don't remember hearing A. corelli's "La Folia" with violin, you say?? Well, luckily for you, even though it was posted earlier in this thread (partly by me), I am posting it again so that you can compare the recorder and violin versions.

My other reason is that I feel this is one of the finest pieces composed everrrrr!! If I were stuck on a desert island with only one piece of music to listen to until I perished ten days later of dehydration, I think this would be the song I'd select:

Arcangelo Corelli - "La Folia" Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5 No. 12
with Violin and Basso

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Engine

Oh my god, this is the best music I've heard in quite a while. If you ever go on a doomed cruise, let me know and I'll come with and bring 10 gallons of fresh water as my luggage so that we can listen to this for as long as possible as we gradually die on that uncharted desert island.

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VEGANGELICA

It is great, isn't it!

When I chart my doomed cruise in 60 years, I will definitely let you know. Once we're on the island, if we don't end up in a bare-handed fight for your 10 gallons of fresh water and instead share it equitably, drinking only 1 quart per day (the minimum needed to survive, I read) will give us each...(calculate, calculate)...20 glorious days to live and enjoy Corelli's "La Folia" before the water runs out!!

Then we will be left with 10 more days to spend sprawled on our backs in the sand under the warm sun, and the moon and stars by night, as we drift off into parched unconsciousness to the strains of that lovely music. Not a bad way to go, all things considered.



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Telemann - Trio Sonata in A Minor -- Performed by Amarillis
with Recorder, Baroque Violin, viola da gamba, and harpsicord

I posted an excerpt earlier, but here is the whole of this very pleasant and engaging piece that incorporates the charming toots and whistles of the recorder. I especially like hearing the vigorous conversations between recorder and violin in the fourth movement:

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VEGANGELICA

Telemann - a Trio Sonata (not sure which one)
noteworthy because of the GREAT BASS RECORDER played by a member of the Formosa recorder quartet.

Great Bass Recorders:



Telemann :Triosonata--by Formosa recorder quartet

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