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The GambaCast – quaver – William Cranford – Fantasia No.3 á4

quaver – William Cranford – Fantasia No.3 á4

Brady Lanier, Marie Dalby, Tobi Szüts, Loren Ludwig, viols

Announcing the release of the CD ‘quaver’ by quaver – featuring music by Shostakovich, Machaut, Sheryl Crow, Ratatat, Piazzolla and many more! To order the new CD email quaverviols AT gmail.com or visit http://www.quaver.org/.

About quaver

Quaver is committed to playing exciting music, new and old, in ways that engage the eclectic sensibilities of the iPod era. Our concerts bring together music ranging from Petrucci to Purcell, and from Shostakovich to Sheryl Crow. We draw on the traditional viol consort to reunite polyphony’s rich musical heritage with the present: seventeenth-century pavans and fantasias are paired with recent polyphonic music from performers such as the rock band Radiohead, the electronica ensemble Ratatat, and the composers Astor Piazzolla and Gyorgy Ligeti. Quaver appeals to audiences as diverse as our music, appearing in concert halls, coffee shops, clubs and art galleries.

This content is Copyright © 2010 quaver and appears here on the GambaCast by permission.

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Based in the Chicago area, Dr. Serna works to bring the early western string instrument family known as the viola da gamba into many area schools – demonstrating solo literature from the Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical periods for treble viol, tenor viol, bass viol & violone. Please help us make viols accessible to both young and old.

For feedback, please email info AT thegambacast.org. Please review the podcast in iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-viols-in-our-schools-gambacast/id279089596 Visit the online store to support future outreach activities at http://www.cafepress.com/violadagamba.

Viols in Our Schools Copyright © 2010 Dr. Phillip W. Serna. For more information, visit http://www.thegambacast.org/ & http://www.violsinourschools.org/.

The GambaCast – quaver – Anthony Holborne (c.1545-1602) – Pavan Infernum á4

quaver – Anthony Holborne (c.1545-1602) – Pavan Infernum á4

Brady Lanier, Marie Dalby, Tobi Szüts, Loren Ludwig, viols

Announcing the release of the CD ‘quaver’ by quaver – featuring music by Shostakovich, Machaut, Sheryl Crow, Ratatat, Piazzolla and many more! To order the new CD email quaverviols AT gmail.com or visit http://www.quaver.org/.

About quaver

Quaver is committed to playing exciting music, new and old, in ways that engage the eclectic sensibilities of the iPod era. Our concerts bring together music ranging from Petrucci to Purcell, and from Shostakovich to Sheryl Crow. We draw on the traditional viol consort to reunite polyphony’s rich musical heritage with the present: seventeenth-century pavans and fantasias are paired with recent polyphonic music from performers such as the rock band Radiohead, the electronica ensemble Ratatat, and the composers Astor Piazzolla and Gyorgy Ligeti. Quaver appeals to audiences as diverse as our music, appearing in concert halls, coffee shops, clubs and art galleries.

This content is Copyright © 2010 quaver and appears here on the GambaCast by permission.

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Based in the Chicago area, Dr. Serna works to bring the early western string instrument family known as the viola da gamba into many area schools – demonstrating solo literature from the Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical periods for treble viol, tenor viol, bass viol & violone. Please help us make viols accessible to both young and old.

For feedback, please email info AT thegambacast.org. Please review the podcast in iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-viols-in-our-schools-gambacast/id279089596 Visit the online store to support future outreach activities at http://www.cafepress.com/violadagamba.

Viols in Our Schools Copyright © 2010 Dr. Phillip W. Serna. For more information, visit http://www.thegambacast.org/ & http://www.violsinourschools.org/.

The GambaCast – quaver – Martha Bishop (b.1937) – Tango In Nomine

quaver – Martha Bishop (b.1937) – Tango In Nomine

Brady Lanier, Marie Dalby, Tobi Szüts, Loren Ludwig, viols

Announcing the release of the CD ‘quaver’ by quaver – featuring music by Shostakovich, Machaut, Sheryl Crow, Ratatat, Piazzolla and many more! To order the new CD email quaverviols AT gmail.com or visit http://www.quaver.org/.

About quaver

Quaver is committed to playing exciting music, new and old, in ways that engage the eclectic sensibilities of the iPod era. Our concerts bring together music ranging from Petrucci to Purcell, and from Shostakovich to Sheryl Crow. We draw on the traditional viol consort to reunite polyphony’s rich musical heritage with the present: seventeenth-century pavans and fantasias are paired with recent polyphonic music from performers such as the rock band Radiohead, the electronica ensemble Ratatat, and the composers Astor Piazzolla and Gyorgy Ligeti. Quaver appeals to audiences as diverse as our music, appearing in concert halls, coffee shops, clubs and art galleries.

This content is Copyright © 2010 quaver and appears here on the GambaCast by permission.

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Based in the Chicago area, Dr. Serna works to bring the early western string instrument family known as the viola da gamba into many area schools – demonstrating solo literature from the Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical periods for treble viol, tenor viol, bass viol & violone. Please help us make viols accessible to both young and old.

For feedback, please email info AT thegambacast.org. Please review the podcast in iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-viols-in-our-schools-gambacast/id279089596 Visit the online store to support future outreach activities at http://www.cafepress.com/violadagamba.

Viols in Our Schools Copyright © 2010 Dr. Phillip W. Serna. For more information, visit http://www.thegambacast.org/ & http://www.violsinourschools.org/.

The GambaCast – quaver – Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) – Waltz from Jazz Suite No.1

quaver – Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) – Waltz from Jazz Suite No.1

Brady Lanier, Marie Dalby, Tobi Szüts, Loren Ludwig, viols

Announcing the release of the CD ‘quaver’ by quaver – featuring music by Shostakovich, Machaut, Sheryl Crow, Ratatat, Piazzolla and many more! To order the new CD email quaverviols AT gmail.com or visit http://www.quaver.org/.

About quaver

Quaver is committed to playing exciting music, new and old, in ways that engage the eclectic sensibilities of the iPod era. Our concerts bring together music ranging from Petrucci to Purcell, and from Shostakovich to Sheryl Crow. We draw on the traditional viol consort to reunite polyphony’s rich musical heritage with the present: seventeenth-century pavans and fantasias are paired with recent polyphonic music from performers such as the rock band Radiohead, the electronica ensemble Ratatat, and the composers Astor Piazzolla and Gyorgy Ligeti. Quaver appeals to audiences as diverse as our music, appearing in concert halls, coffee shops, clubs and art galleries.

This content is Copyright © 2010 quaver and appears here on the GambaCast by permission.

________________________________________________

Based in the Chicago area, Dr. Serna works to bring the early western string instrument family known as the viola da gamba into many area schools – demonstrating solo literature from the Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical periods for treble viol, tenor viol, bass viol & violone. Please help us make viols accessible to both young and old.

For feedback, please email info AT thegambacast.org. Please review the podcast in iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-viols-in-our-schools-gambacast/id279089596 Visit the online store to support future outreach activities at http://www.cafepress.com/violadagamba.

Viols in Our Schools Copyright © 2010 Dr. Phillip W. Serna. For more information, visit http://www.thegambacast.org/ & http://www.violsinourschools.org/.

The GambaCast – CD Preview – Accademia del Piacere – Marin Marais (1626-1728) – Le Tourbillon from Pièces de viole du quatrième Livre, 1717

CD Preview – Accademia del Piacere – Marin Marais (1626-1728) – Le Tourbillon from Pièces de viole du quatrième Livre, 1717

From the CD by Alqhai & Alqhai – Accademia del Piacere – Les violes du ciel et de lenfer Fahmi Alqhai solo viola da gamba Rami Alqhai, viola da gamba Miguel Rincón, theorbo and baroque guitar Alberto Martínez Molina, harpsichord Not many geniuses have been seen since those beautiful days, as if Nature had decided to take a rest after the death of Louis XIV. Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV “Angels are many-sided and equivocal.” Thus wrote the poet Rafael Pérez Estrada and I ponder on that ambiguity of the archangel, halfway between heavenly and evil, as I am shaken by the alternation and the successive waves of this album, half godlike half barbarian, alternatively “fanciful and lunatic”, as Hubert Le Blanc described the wild evil temper of Antoine Forqueray, changing immediately into the exaggerated, troubled sensitiveness of the most intimate and poetical Marin Marais. It is funny: you listen to it forwards and backwards and both performances always fit symmetrically, as if they were exactly-cut reverses. The answer is given, once again, by Pérez Estrada, who points out: “exact lovers cast only one shadow.” The juxtaposition of the opposite Forqueray and Marais cast, therefore, one single global shadow. Juan María Rodríguez (translation: Adolfo García) After the success of Accademia del Piacere’s first CD, LE LACRIME DI EROS (Prelude Classical Music Award 2009 to the best international Early Baroque recording), Alqhai & Alqhai continues its task of spreading the talent of the brilliant last generation of Andalusian musicians and their extraordinary musical heritage: Accademia del Piacere is now working on the edition of its third CD, dedicated to the Golden Age of Spanish polyphony.

To order Les violes du ciel et de lenfer and other CDs from Alqhai & Alqhai, visit http://www.alqhai-alqhai.com/. This content is Copyright © 2010 Alqhai & Alqhai/ Accademia del Piacere and appears here on the GambaCast by permission.

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Based in the Chicago area, Dr. Serna works to bring the early western string instrument family known as the viola da gamba into many area schools – demonstrating solo literature from the Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical periods for treble viol, tenor viol, bass viol & violone. Please help us make viols accessible to both young and old.

For feedback, please email info AT thegambacast.org. Please review the podcast in iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-viols-in-our-schools-gambacast/id279089596 Visit the online store to support future outreach activities at http://www.cafepress.com/violadagamba.

Viols in Our Schools Copyright © 2010 Dr. Phillip W. Serna. For more information, visit http://www.thegambacast.org/ & http://www.violsinourschools.org/.

The GambaCast – CD Preview – Accademia del Piacere – Marin Marais (1626-1728) – La Reveuse from Pièces de viole du quatrième Livre, 1717

CD Preview – Accademia del Piacere – Marin Marais (1626-1728) – La Reveuse from Pièces de viole du quatrième Livre, 1717

From the CD by Alqhai & Alqhai – Accademia del Piacere – Les violes du ciel et de lenfer Fahmi Alqhai solo viola da gamba Rami Alqhai, viola da gamba Miguel Rincón, theorbo and baroque guitar Alberto Martínez Molina, harpsichord Not many geniuses have been seen since those beautiful days, as if Nature had decided to take a rest after the death of Louis XIV. Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV “Angels are many-sided and equivocal.” Thus wrote the poet Rafael Pérez Estrada and I ponder on that ambiguity of the archangel, halfway between heavenly and evil, as I am shaken by the alternation and the successive waves of this album, half godlike half barbarian, alternatively “fanciful and lunatic”, as Hubert Le Blanc described the wild evil temper of Antoine Forqueray, changing immediately into the exaggerated, troubled sensitiveness of the most intimate and poetical Marin Marais. It is funny: you listen to it forwards and backwards and both performances always fit symmetrically, as if they were exactly-cut reverses. The answer is given, once again, by Pérez Estrada, who points out: “exact lovers cast only one shadow.” The juxtaposition of the opposite Forqueray and Marais cast, therefore, one single global shadow. Juan María Rodríguez (translation: Adolfo García) After the success of Accademia del Piacere’s first CD, LE LACRIME DI EROS (Prelude Classical Music Award 2009 to the best international Early Baroque recording), Alqhai & Alqhai continues its task of spreading the talent of the brilliant last generation of Andalusian musicians and their extraordinary musical heritage: Accademia del Piacere is now working on the edition of its third CD, dedicated to the Golden Age of Spanish polyphony.

To order Les violes du ciel et de lenfer and other CDs from Alqhai & Alqhai, visit http://www.alqhai-alqhai.com/. This content is Copyright © 2010 Alqhai & Alqhai/ Accademia del Piacere and appears here on the GambaCast by permission.

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Based in the Chicago area, Dr. Serna works to bring the early western string instrument family known as the viola da gamba into many area schools – demonstrating solo literature from the Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical periods for treble viol, tenor viol, bass viol & violone. Please help us make viols accessible to both young and old.

For feedback, please email info AT thegambacast.org. Please review the podcast in iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-viols-in-our-schools-gambacast/id279089596 Visit the online store to support future outreach activities at http://www.cafepress.com/violadagamba.

Viols in Our Schools Copyright © 2010 Dr. Phillip W. Serna. For more information, visit http://www.thegambacast.org/ & http://www.violsinourschools.org/.

The GambaCast – Johannes Schenck (1660-1712) – Sonata V for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba from the Vienna Manuscript

Johannes Schenck (1660-1712) – Sonata V Sonata V for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba from the Vienna Manuscript

Adagio-Allegro-Adagio
Aria
Aria. Allegro
Adagio-Tempo di Gavotte-Adagio
Adagio
Allegro-Adagio-Allegro
Giga

Recorded August 16, 2010 in Duesenberg Recital Hall, Valparaiso University Center for the Arts, Valparaiso, IN. This audio content is Copyright ©2010 Phillip W. Serna and appears here on the GambaCast by permission. For more information on Valparaiso University Music Programs, visit http://www.valpo.edu/music.

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Based in the Chicago area, Dr. Serna works to bring the early western string instrument family known as the viola da gamba into many area schools – demonstrating solo literature from the Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical periods for treble viol, tenor viol, bass viol & violone. Please help us make viols accessible to both young and old.

For feedback, please email info AT thegambacast.org. Please review the podcast in iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-viols-in-our-schools-gambacast/id279089596 Visit the online store to support future outreach activities at http://www.cafepress.com/violadagamba.

Viols in Our Schools Copyright © 2010 Dr. Phillip W. Serna. For more information, visit http://www.thegambacast.org/ & http://www.violsinourschools.org/.

The GambaCast – Carl Friedrich Abel (1723- 1787) – Allegro, WKO 205 from 27 Pieces for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba

Carl Friedrich Abel (1723- 1787) – Allegro, WKO 205 from 27 Pieces for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba

Recorded August 16, 2010 in Duesenberg Recital Hall, Valparaiso University Center for the Arts, Valparaiso, IN. This audio content is Copyright ©2010 Phillip W. Serna and appears here on the GambaCast by permission. For more information on Valparaiso University Music Programs, visit http://www.valpo.edu/music.

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Based in the Chicago area, Dr. Serna works to bring the early western string instrument family known as the viola da gamba into many area schools – demonstrating solo literature from the Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical periods for treble viol, tenor viol, bass viol & violone. Please help us make viols accessible to both young and old.

For feedback, please email info AT thegambacast.org. Please review the podcast in iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-viols-in-our-schools-gambacast/id279089596 Visit the online store to support future outreach activities at http://www.cafepress.com/violadagamba.

Viols in Our Schools Copyright © 2010 Dr. Phillip W. Serna. For more information, visit http://www.thegambacast.org/ & http://www.violsinourschools.org/.

The GambaCast – Carl Friedrich Abel (1723- 1787) – Allegro from 27 Pieces for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba

Carl Friedrich Abel (1723- 1787) – Allegro from 27 Pieces for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba

Recorded August 16, 2010 in Duesenberg Recital Hall, Valparaiso University Center for the Arts, Valparaiso, IN. This audio content is Copyright ©2010 Phillip W. Serna and appears here on the GambaCast by permission. For more information on Valparaiso University Music Programs, visit http://www.valpo.edu/music.

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Based in the Chicago area, Dr. Serna works to bring the early western string instrument family known as the viola da gamba into many area schools – demonstrating solo literature from the Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical periods for treble viol, tenor viol, bass viol & violone. Please help us make viols accessible to both young and old.

For feedback, please email info AT thegambacast.org. Please review the podcast in iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-viols-in-our-schools-gambacast/id279089596 Visit the online store to support future outreach activities at http://www.cafepress.com/violadagamba.

Viols in Our Schools Copyright © 2010 Dr. Phillip W. Serna. For more information, visit http://www.thegambacast.org/ & http://www.violsinourschools.org/.

The GambaCast – Carl Friedrich Abel (1723- 1787) – Sonata in G-Major, WKO155 for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba

Carl Friedrich Abel (1723- 1787) – Sonata in G-Major, WKO155 for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba

Adagio – Allegro – Minuet

Recorded August 16, 2010 in Duesenberg Recital Hall, Valparaiso University Center for the Arts, Valparaiso, IN. This audio content is Copyright ©2010 Phillip W. Serna and appears here on the GambaCast by permission. For more information on Valparaiso University Music Programs, visit http://www.valpo.edu/music.

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Based in the Chicago area, Dr. Serna works to bring the early western string instrument family known as the viola da gamba into many area schools – demonstrating solo literature from the Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical periods for treble viol, tenor viol, bass viol & violone. Please help us make viols accessible to both young and old.

For feedback, please email info AT thegambacast.org. Please review the podcast in iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-viols-in-our-schools-gambacast/id279089596 Visit the online store to support future outreach activities at http://www.cafepress.com/violadagamba.

Viols in Our Schools Copyright © 2010 Dr. Phillip W. Serna. For more information, visit http://www.thegambacast.org/ & http://www.violsinourschools.org/.

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