Une belle présentation de la viole d'amour par Jasser Haj Youssef. Violoniste de formation, le musicien explique son choix de rester "#autodidacte" avec cet instrument, afin d'en explorer librement les possibilités et de nouer un rapport singulier, instinctif avec lui. Au fil de sa démonstration, présentant plusieurs manières de tenir et de jouer la #violedamour, il en révèle la versatilité en la faisant voyager dans différents horizons sonores:
https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/la-viole-d-amour-comment-ca-marche-par-jasser-haj-youssef-1908308
#forgotteninstruments

...Or maybe you'd rather like #violadamore and #flute? Well, this was a thing too... ☺️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoQTa8CJLg8
[Christoph #Graupner: #Concerto for viola d'amore and flute
Viola d'amore - Donald Maurice
Flute - Ewa Murawska
Orkiestra Ars Longa, Poznan
Conductor - Eugeniusz Dąbrowski]
#classicalmusic #baroque #baroquemusic #historicallyaccurate #forgotteninstruments

Another day, another #forgotteninstrument... Meet the viola d'amore, similar to a #violin or #viola but with six to seven melodic #strings and, more importantly, a number of non-playable #sympathetic (resonating) metal strings which provide warm, lush and #drone-like #harmonics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_d%27amore
#violadamore #forgotteninstruments #classicalmusic #baroquemusic #organology #instrumentarium

Another day, another #forgotteninstrument... Meet the viola d'amore, similar to a #violin or #viola but with six to seven melodic #strings and, more importantly, a number of non-playable #sympathetic (resonating) metal strings which provide warm, lush and #drone-like #harmonics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_d%27amore
#violadamore #forgotteninstruments #classicalmusic #baroquemusic #organology #instrumentarium

Another day, another #forgotteninstrument... Meet the viola d'amore, similar to a #violin or #viola but with six to seven melodic #strings and, more importantly, a number of non-playable #sympathetic (resonating) strings which provide warm, lush and #drone-like #harmonics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_d%27amore
#violadamore #forgotteninstruments #classicalmusic #baroquemusique #organology

I returned from my walk to find #ForgottenInstruments was now a thing.

Which reminded me of the lira organizzata, and the perpetual mystery of how, when Ferdinand IV bought a couple and demanded Haydn write concertos for them, Haydn kept both his job and a straight face.

If you're wondering, it's probably best left that way, but otherwise there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5VYSj1eHcM

I returned from my walk to find #ForgottenInstruments was now a thing.

Which reminded me of the lira organizzata, and the perpetual mystery of how, when Ferdinand IV bought a couple and demanded Haydn write concertos for them, Haydn kept both his job and a straight face.

If you're wondering, it's probably best left that way, but otherwise there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5VYSj1eHcM

The #arpeggione has now even found its way into #jazz & #moderncreative #music: Simon Drappier plays the arpeggione within the band "Quiet Men", which features a few other not-so-usual instruments. The pairing of the arpeggione with the the #bassclarinet (and oriental #zarb for the rhythmic section) is especially soft and #mellow... Warm music for cold winter days! 🦊
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVjRzhVdz_w
#forgotteninstruments #revival

Interestingly, since the extant "old" repertory for the #arpeggione is limited to exactly that *one* Schubert piece, reviving the instrument entailed commissioning #newmusic for it: a brand new sound for an old, forgotten instrument! Exciting, no? So here's the #Goya-inspired piece "Le Sommeil de la Raison produit des monstres", written by #composer Laurent Mettraux for #cellist & #arpeggionist Nicolas Deletaille: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqekXQcBDXg
#classicalmusic #contemporarymusic #forgotteninstruments

Franz #Schubert, "Arpeggione #Sonata"... on the #arpeggione, part 2 (movements 2 - #Adagio and 3 - #Allegretto), by Nicolas Deletaille with Alain Roudier (#fortepiano #pianoforte):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRFQ85SU_qs
#classicalmusic #revival #forgotteninstruments

Franz #Schubert's "Arpeggione" #sonata wasn't composed for cello or viola & modern piano (as it is usually played), but for the #arpeggione, a short-lived musical instrument (like a bowed guitar), and of course #pianoforte... While modern transcriptions are beautiful, it's still a *different* pleasure to hear an #historicallyaccurate rendition by #cellist N. Deletaille, who has been spearheading a timid arpeggione revival in #Belgium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do9UgdfwM5Q
#classicalmusic #forgotteninstruments

Franz #Schubert's "Arpeggione" #sonata wasn't composed for cello or viola & modern piano (as it is usually played), but for the #arpeggione, a short-lived musical instrument (like a bowed guitar), and of course #pianoforte... While modern transcriptions are beautiful, it's still a *different* pleasure to hear an #historicallyaccurate rendition by #cellist N. Deletaille, who has been spearheading a timid arpeggione revival in #Belgium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do9UgdfwM5Q
#classicalmusic #forgotteninstruments