🎻 Fun with Gut Strings 🎻
It's been a looooong time since I've had the chance to outfit my #fiddle with a full-on #Baroque set up: #gutstrings, #Baroquebow, tuning down to A415... It felt so good to explore this way of playing again!
#behindthescenes #musicpractice #baroqueviolin #historicallyinformedpractice

https://youtu.be/pd4GvMAmf4M?si=h7JDtlnFd17EpyaX

Fun with Gut Strings

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The "Largo ma non tanto" from the #Concerto for Two violins in D Minor BWV 1043 by #JSBach, performed on orig inst by the #EarlyMusic Ensemble #VoicesOfMusic. #RachelPodger & #ElizabethBlumenstock, soloists; the "Art of the #BaroqueViolin" concert June 2016
https://youtu.be/fzUdwPqB3hs (6:28) #BachDouble

Voices of Music http://voicesofmusic.org/
Hanneke van Proosdij & David Tayler, directors

#ChrisNorman (8-key #flute) and #DavidGreenberg (#fiddle)
old Scots tunes at the Vax Moto sessions Feb2012 from their duo CD 'Let Me In This Ae Night', http://www.boxwood.org/boxwood-media

The British Press - Marching Air
Miss Hog of Newliston's Reel
Lady Chatherine Pelham's Reel
We'll Aye Gang Back to yon Town - reel
Let Me In This Ae Night - reel
Miss Grace Speirs of Elderslie's Reel
https://youtu.be/BlhwLLQOn88?si=ooueKtCCfMEWNZDq (5:06)
#CapeBreton & #baroqueviolin #18thcScotland #MaritimeCanada

#HistoricalPerformance at #SFCM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
https://sfcm.edu/study/majors/historical-performance

FACULTY
Corey Jamason, chair #harpsichord #fortepiano
Jennifer Meller #baroquedance
Elizabeth Blumenstock #baroqueviolin #baroqueviola
Elisabeth Reed #baroquecello #violadagamba
Richard Savino #baroqueguitar #lute

Bachelor of Music (Harpsichord)
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Historical Performance

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"Andante" from the #ViolinConcerto in A Minor
by Johann Sebastian #Bach
…possibly composed for Collegium Musicum in #Leipzig

#RachellEllenWong, #baroqueviolin

support #VoicesOfMusic project of #completeconcertos of #JSBach https://voicesofmusic.org/donate.html

https://youtu.be/gjNtDobzgLY
"To create a unique backdrop for the slow movement, Bach places the ritonello tune in the bass to take the place of an accompanying ostinato. The 1st note of each motive is repeated to create a pedal point"

Voices of Music - Donate

Robert de Visée - Suites pour théorbe (1716) - Pascal Monteilhet

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Schmelzer: Sonata Quarta; Elizabeth Blumenstock, baroque violin; Voices of Music

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звуки ц - Alessandro Stradella - Trio sonata d-moll

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