I would be interested in someone writing a more "modern" work for the same (or similar) instrumental ensemble used in Monteverdi's "Orfeo" - using old instruments with a more neo-classic/neo-romantic approach. In it, there would be more "tutti" than in the original where the various instrumental consorts were used to evoke a mood or a particular place setting. Unfortunately, except for the very end of the opera, there is no place where the entire ensemble plays together.
There are hundreds of examples of fuller "tutti" ensembles written in obliggato fashion in so much 17th century repertoire. To begin with, consider specific concerted motets [proto cantatas] of Johann Schelle, Sebastian Knupfer, Johann Christoph Bach [late 17th Cent.], Heinrich Schutz [Psalmen Davids], and even Giovanni Gabrieli [Sacrae Symphoniae, 1615]. Also, consider the gargantuan stacking of instruments by musicians who wrote for the courts of Munich, Vienna, Salzburg, and Kromeriz.
USA actually has several masterful musicians of music from very many periods. This is the one of the best one I've heard. Also, American Bach soloists has ggreat recordings om magnatune dott commm.
I played cornett and alto sackbut in the collegium musicum at St. Olaf College in Minnesota and have really missed it since transferring to the U of Iowa. Do you know of any similar professional/semiprofessional groups based out of the midwest?
hmm, it would be interesting to know what some of the clips are from...even tho' they are fragments...what was the final outcome?
JanesterMontana 1 month ago
I would be interested in someone writing a more "modern" work for the same (or similar) instrumental ensemble used in Monteverdi's "Orfeo" - using old instruments with a more neo-classic/neo-romantic approach. In it, there would be more "tutti" than in the original where the various instrumental consorts were used to evoke a mood or a particular place setting. Unfortunately, except for the very end of the opera, there is no place where the entire ensemble plays together.
Dogsledfan 3 years ago
There are hundreds of examples of fuller "tutti" ensembles written in obliggato fashion in so much 17th century repertoire. To begin with, consider specific concerted motets [proto cantatas] of Johann Schelle, Sebastian Knupfer, Johann Christoph Bach [late 17th Cent.], Heinrich Schutz [Psalmen Davids], and even Giovanni Gabrieli [Sacrae Symphoniae, 1615]. Also, consider the gargantuan stacking of instruments by musicians who wrote for the courts of Munich, Vienna, Salzburg, and Kromeriz.
msholmes 3 years ago
It has been done, but old instruments with modern sensabilities doesn´t add up to anything.
It´s like breeding donkeys.
mrmolinodelahoz 2 years ago
USA actually has several masterful musicians of music from very many periods. This is the one of the best one I've heard. Also, American Bach soloists has ggreat recordings om magnatune dott commm.
MaBu888 3 years ago
Several of your videos I selected as favorites.
MaBu888 3 years ago 4
Many thanks!
msholmes 3 years ago
Everyone in this clip is so lucky to have such a wonderful gift, be it singing or playing.
The enthusiasm and passion just rings out.
Thanks Michael.
Bachsoboe 3 years ago 5
That was a fun recording session. We had people from all over the USA, including the west coast.
msholmes 3 years ago
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msholmes 3 years ago
I played cornett and alto sackbut in the collegium musicum at St. Olaf College in Minnesota and have really missed it since transferring to the U of Iowa. Do you know of any similar professional/semiprofessional groups based out of the midwest?
starvinghysterical 3 years ago