Well, with a neat visualization of how the bowing on this particular piece works a master work becomes even more interesting. 🙂
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Scarlatti Sonata in D Minor K141
This D minor effort is one of Scarlatti’s finest Sonatas and also one of his most unusual: it is really a toccata whose focus on repeated notes is said to be an attempt to imitate the sonorities of a mandolin. In addition, it makes considerable demands on the soloist with hand-crossings and other keyboard acrobatics […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Vivaldi – Lute Concerto in D major, RV 93
The concerto is in three movements: Allegro Largo Allegro The first movement is in a fast tempo and begins with a ritornello played by the entire orchestra and then repeated by the solo lute.[1][2] According to AllMusic critic Brian Robins, the ritornello “contrasts a tuneful opening theme with a more lyrical motif in the minor […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Baroque Interlude – Bach, Chaconne from Partita for Violin No. 2, BWV 1004, arranged by Brahms.
Bach, Chaconne from Partita for Violin No. 2, BWV 1004, arranged by Brahms for left hand piano: The Chaconne is the fifth movement of Bach’s Partita in D Minor for Unaccompanied Violin, written between 1717-1723 (ages 32-38), while Bach was in the service of Prince Leopold in Cöthen. Joshua Bell has said that the Chaconne […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Bach – Minuet in G Major BWV Anh 116
Returning to the Bach this year. First up in line is this Minuet in G major, I’m in love with the passage that modulates to E minor soooo much. 🙂
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Baroque Interlude – J.S Bach Invention No.2 in C Minor
he Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772–801, also known as the Two- and Three-Part Inventions, are a collection of thirty short keyboard compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): 15 inventions, which are 2-part contrapuntal pieces, and 15 sinfonias, which are 3-part contrapuntal pieces. They were originally written as musical exercises for
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and Continuo in D minor, BWV 1043
The Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and Continuo in D minor, BWV 1043, also known as the Double Violin Concerto, is perhaps one of the most famous works by J. S. Bach and considered among the best examples of the work of the late Baroque period. Bach wrote it between
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Bach – March in D major, BWV Anh. 122
Another deceptively simple looking pieces from the Master. I’ve tackled this one and well, it still has the best of me. That chromatic transition at the end of the A section is just death, let me assure you. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Bach, Piano, The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Baroque Interlude – Francois Couperin – The Israel Sinfonietta.
Couperin was born in Paris. He was taught by his father, Charles Couperin, who died when François was about 10, and by Jacques Thomelin. In 1685 he became the organist at the church of Saint-Gervais, Paris, a post he inherited from his father and that he would pass on
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Bach, Gavottes I & II (Cello Suite V, BWV 1011, guitar)
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Les Barricades Mystérieuses
Les Barricades MystĂ©rieuses (The Mysterious Barricades) was composed in 1717 for the harpsichord by François Couperin. It is the fifth piece in his “Ordre 6ème de clavecin” in B-flat major from his second book of collected harpsichord pieces (Pièces de Clavecin).[ It is emblematic of the style brisĂ© characteristic of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – J.S. Bach Sonata for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord in G minor, No.3,
Although the circumstances behind Bach’s composition of three Sonatas for harpsichord and viola da gamba (BWV 1027-29) are unknown, recent research indicates that they were most likely written in the early 1740’s, when the greatest virtuosos of the viola da gamba were long a thing of the past. No original source combines
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Bach Harpsichord Concerto No.3 in D major, BWV1054
Concerto III in D major, BWV 1054 Allegro Adagio e piano sempre Allegro Scoring: harpsichord solo, violin I/II, viola, continuo (cello, violone) Length: c. 17 minutes The surviving violin concerto in E major, BWV 1042 was the model for this work, which was transposed down a tone to allow the
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