J.S.Bach Viola Da Gamba Sonata No.1 in Gmajor BWV1027 2ndmov

[PTCello]

I'm looking for the D Major Gamba sonata and happened onto this.

Very nice playing. Wonderful. Piano is much too loud, balance is not good. but viola playing is very nice. Wonderful playing.

Huge viola. Is that a 17?

Gamba sonatas should be played on cello, haha

[auro1001]

Looks to be a 16 incher

[iroganai]

Marvelous. Oh how light are the touches of the piano!

[chienbrun66]

good



[Luchini690]

she's outstanding

[raroschumann]

naoko shimizu plays with the pianist ozgur aydin.

please correct his name OZGUR AYDIN

[LuisdelaCuesta]

No es una viola da gamba.

Gamba en italiano quiere decir "pierna".

La viola da gamba fue el antecesor del violoncello.

Esta se acerca más a la viola d'amore

[AulicExclusiva]

@LuisdelaCuesta Es simplemente una viola común y silvestre. La que se usa en las orquestas sinfónicas.

La viola da gamba no fue el antecesor del violoncello. La viola da gamba, que en castellano se llamó vihuela de arco, es mas bien un laúd tocado con arco. No tiene relación con la familia del violín. Ni tiene las cuerdas de eco de la viola d' amore.

[hotpecsbcn]

More nonsense from firebreathone. The balance is good and the pianist holds back incredibly. The performance is quite superb. Anyway who ever decided to be "historically accurate" was in any sense an interesting thing to do or be.

[joiesauvage]

great but tempo might be a little fast

[ceebass]

Great performance but I wonder how much better the balance would be if the piano lid was on half a stick.

[pviola314]

brava!

[firebreathone]

good. however, you shouldn't have used a piano as a harpsichord would have been historially acurate. there were no pianos in bach's day.(not as we know them) and unfortunately the sound of the piano dominates the sound of the violin

[timribchester]

I disagree- as in the great recording of this by Argerich and Maisky, sensitive and rhythmic playing from both players can intersect very nicely, as it does here. The harpsichord can lose a lot of shape in this kind of texture without a cello doubling the bass line, and rarely sounds as warm or personable as a piano.

[AmatureComposer]

It's a viola and not a violin. A violin can't reach the low notes. By the way, the viola lacks one note, the low b, so she takes it an octave higher. Cellists have this note as well, but on the hole it's easier on viola.

[pviola314]

nonsense, brahms used cat gut strings in his symphonies because of the technology then. are we to limit ourselves? a harpsichord will not carry in that hall. I will admit to the beauty of it, and yes i do prefer it, but it is by no means necessary for pleasing bach (who would arrange so many things himself)

[brian777999]

goodness, how big is that viola. It looks huge !

[squallfinalheaven]

but it does produce more sound right?

Correct me if i'm wrong.

[brian777999]

Yes, it will produce more sound but the larger the size, the more awkward it becomes to play.

[nobody112233445566]

This is one of the biggest hoaxes in the music world!

Most often, a bigger size viola, specially with wrong proportions, will create more noise under the year, an effect than mislead the french violin makers in the 19th century, who were convinced bigger is better and created so many oversize violin.

[nobody112233445566]

As you know today, this violins have no big value, although they might sound very loud under the ear. A good large viola will produce a deaper tone, but not louder. If bigger would mean louder, then a viola would sound louder than a violin, a cello even louder and doublebass would be the loudest.

[pviola314]

take into account she might be small...

[brian777999]

Good point, she might be small but that still makes it a huge viola for her to play considering her size. She seems to manage okay though.