Vivaldi - Trio Sonata in D Minor "La Folia" RV63

[takror]

Шедевр!

[itsmedude1020]

No number of likes could possibly do this piece justice.

[morgmagg]

Thank you for uploading. My cassette is hammered, and I don't have money to replace it with a CD. This tune is transcendental, holy, sacred, any word you could use to describe something beyond JUST great.

[erickluna123]

bravo con Vivaldi...esta es su mejor composición

[Rosario15731]

Eccelente!

[Musicalme96]

wat duz la folia mean?

[Learkos]

@Musicalme96 means .."the madness"

[Gustaveleloup]

@Musicalme96 In the earlier Baroque period (Lully, Marais), when all things French-style dominated European courts this common dance was known by the French 'les folies d'Espagne' – 'the madness of Spain' (even though the dance may have originated in Portugal or even Brazil). The words 'folia' and 'folie' are cognates of the English 'folly'. I recommend Marais if you like this, but Vivaldi's folia is still my favourite.

[notethisname]

@Musicalme96 google translate says that it mean bag or leaf depending on if you say follia or folia but can you trust translate...

[timcliftongreen]

Hello, please can you tell me where all your amazing imagery is from? If from a book I would love to own. Your videos are an endless source of pleasure and discovery! Bravo.

[AGLMIL]

Quiero comentar la exquisita calidad de los videos ofrecidos por HARMONICO101 y expresarle mi gratitud.

Muchas gracias

[ale92LP]

Una vera Follia! Grande Vivaldi, uno dei pochi motivi per cui sono fiero di essere italiano.

[smark911]

what happens after 1:30 gives me the chills when heard LIVE...bow touching chords, sound and vibrato expanding through my soul...just so wonderful

[eldeantes]

FUCK, I CAME HEARING THIS

[tommaso1618]

Well done, as always. Many thanks Harmonico101

[WQXR90FM]

I am glad Vivaldi is being rediscovered on baroque instruments !

[PraeludiumUndFuge]

@WQXR90FM about time

[tislani]

did you come across it by chance or what ?!! -_-' .

[bunnyz324]

is that the song by vivaldi

[Dzikslol]

The theme that comes in 6:45 was used in some of Vivaldi's concertos as well, I think.

But I can't find it... if you know it, please reply!

[mazimi95]

haha i played this on harp :)

[hgfjzsdfvtewhwegvc]

Perfectly well! Can Somebody give scores (notes) on this composition?

[GeaVox]

Ah, yes, 'La Follia e' bellina', but Handle took an almost simple tune and turned it into something that makes the hairs at the back of the neck rise in awe!

[tricofilms]

Truly beautiful. James Newton Howard also did a unique arrangement of this for his film "Restoration"-- although inspiration was accredited to Handel's Sarabande (which is quite similar to this)

[RaindropCantabile]

I've noticed that a lot of your songs use Baroque tuning, it's throwing me off a lot because I see D minor and I think "okay let's hear a D" and then I hear a C# (I think) and now I'm all confused :S

[HARMONICO101]

That's why I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch! :)

[jennythemusicmaker]

@HARMONICO101 Lucky you... I do too... :/

[chlorr]

@HARMONICO101

LOL! Yeah, sometimes it's more curse than blessing! :) :)

[Magemax]

That's cause the A440 was not used as reference at Baroque time. One of the Standard tuning frequency at that time was 415 hz (but there was also 390 hz in other countries ...). This piece was written in D minor (with a A 415 = G# for now). Which means that this D minor is for us a C#.

[RaindropCantabile]

Yeah, I know. It still throws me off though : (

[direngrey2143]

@RaindropCantabile

I am likewise glad for not having perfect pitch.

If this is 415 tuning, then it will be roughly a semintone down (so you're right, a C#). The area of what is correct baroque tuning is definitely an area ripe for argument, for even during the baroque period, different tuning systems were used depending on type of composition or locality. Nowadays, the majority of recordings on 'original instruments' will either be 415 or 392. 392 would totally mess with your eye though!

[chlorr]

@RaindropCantabile

Totally understand! It makes my brain hurt. ;) For real.

[SynthWoof]

@RaindropCantabile There's not much to be confused about, in the baroque era, they did not use today's "standard", it was a half step (approximately) down. So if someone says D , in baroque tuning, it's about a C# by our modern standards.

[RaindropCantabile]

@SynthWoof Oh I don't mean confused about the concept, the tuning actually screws me up because I have perfect pitch.

[SynthWoof]

@RaindropCantabile Unless you lived in the Baroque era! then your perfect pitch would be attuned to that time period's standard

[RaindropCantabile]

@SynthWoof Sure, but with respect to my "modern-day" perfect pitch, this is confusing : )

[HARMONICO101]

Corelli didn't even write the original melody either. La Folia is a dance based around a particular chord progression that dates to the early renaissance.

[callimacos]

Quite right ;)

the ''Follia'' seems to have origins in a potoguese dance of the middle ages

[jmarckesano]

Does anyone have Handel's La Folia that they would be willing to post?

[HARMONICO101]

Handel never wrote one. The closest thing would be that famous sarabande in D minor orchestrated for strings in Barry Lyndon.

[mrsherman109]

Corelli wrote the theme, yes. But Vivaldi did write variations. Along with other baroque composers including Marais, Scarlatti, Geminiani and CPE Bach.

[WildhorseDream]

Wow!....Great piece! Great sound & recording too!

[tshoebat]

vivaldi--best composer in world history

[Montyleeny14]

Surely - at least in Baroque period? If he was the best composer in world history then he would be able to compose waltz' and pop music aswell! His techniques might or may not suite it. But he is - in my opinion - the best composer in Baroque period before Bach.

[theanswer00]

yes but bach is so "german"! I prefer italian music.. it is so much enjoying!

[Montyleeny14]

Vivaldi is a German composer = german music. =)

[theanswer00]

vivaldi was italian >_> he was in strong relations with the venetian school, even when he was in vienna

[Montyleeny14]

vivaldi was born in Vienna but lived most of his life in Venice.

[theanswer00]

born? Maybe you're confused, Vivaldi DIED in Vienna ^^

[HARMONICO101]

You are talking BS. Vivaldi is the arch-master of the Italian baroque because he was ITALIAN. Born and raised in Venice.

[Montyleeny14]

oh i'm sorry, i got my facts wrong :P

[139jjpb]

@jennythemusicmaker just that they lived around the same period doesn't mean bach wouldn't be influenced by vivaldi's work, take for instance BWV1065 concerto for 4 harpsichords wich he composed after vivaldi's concerto for 4 violins

[jennythemusicmaker]

@139jjpb I... didn't actually say that. But yes Bach arranged many of Vivaldi's solo concerti for other instruments. Why did you use those two pieces as an example when it is clearly Bach's arrangement of Vivaldi's? I thought you were arguing against Bach being influenced?

[139jjpb]

@jennythemusicmaker well sorry, i must have misunderstood, you are clearly aware of bach knowing vivaldi's work. my bad.

[knaxcomanche]

how can a man take just 4 chords and make so many variations out of it............JUST AMAZING

[AytidaRed]

They should put Vivaldi in the dictionary.

[Montyleeny14]

An absolute definition:

An unknown mind in the midst of music, composing nothing but the word of god.

[marcusunlimited]

@AytidaRed He's not there already? WTH!?

[thelightisahead]

Brilliant, thanks for this Harmonico101. I like the Siciliana style variation at 6:46, and others of course. You can hear the Corelli influence! Vivaldi must have been in awe of a fellow Italian super-violinist who had done so much for musical language and instrumental music in general! I have Vivaldi's Op. 2 violin sonatas in score (not yet on CD) and from my own feeble attempts at playing some well, I can hear the influence from Corelli, in various melodic passages etc., it's great!

[HARMONICO101]

Actually, I have a couple of those sonatas uploaded on my channel if you would like to hear them. Also, I own 2 facsimiles of the Op. 2 sonatas, one of which is type-set. I had a friend of mine get them for me when he went to Florence last year.

[thelightisahead]

Oo thanks, I will check them out at some point :) am I to take it you are a fellow violinist? If so, how long have you been playing, how much do you practice etc.?

[pablinichiri]

cool!

[PlanyTC]

Pretty good, but nos as good as Bach.

[bubbafet2200]

Bach without Vivaldi is not Bach.  =]

[PlanyTC]

I'm sorry, but Bach took music to a higher level. Vivaldi is nice, but just nice.

[bubbafet2200]

I think I can guess what you mean by that. Bach is my favorite composer too, and I'd use all manner of superlatives to compare his music with anyone else's. My point, though, was that Vivaldi's influence is so apparent in most of Bach's mature works, especially chamber music, that I would probably not hold Bach to such esteem if it weren't for Vivaldi. So literally, to me, Bach without Vivaldi is not Bach. =]

[HARMONICO101]

I completely agree. Bach did after all transcribe something like 6 or 7 Vivaldi works.

[bubbafet2200]

Something like 13 I think, that are known of. But the Italian flavor crops up so often for the remainder of his career, that one has to speculate about how lasting that influence was.

[HARMONICO101]

Well, Bach follows the Vivaldian model for his concertos. Plus Bach's transcription of the concerto for 4 violins was likely made in the later years of his life.

[Nattyduck]

How much I love this piece of music!

[riflessoblu]

Vivaldi la musica.

Vivaldi l'armonia.

Vivaldi la vita.

Vivaldi la bellezza delle note.

Vivaldi..............

[Nattyduck]

It's absolutely outstanding. I can listen to it non stop. Thank you very much for posting it.

[gnatkowa]

i am the same ^^

[caribchick87]

beautiful

[unchained1978]

You can actually hear a short part of this theme in the 3rd movement of Summer by Vivaldi, but it's only about 15 seconds long or so

[tnix80]

undeniably the greatest "italian" composer

I could not choose between vivaldi or bach. both are perfection

[CielBlanche]

Yep.

[jewish1972]

what about Verdi, or Palestrina, from whom all composers of the aferwards came, or Monteverdi, or Gabrielli, who was a real star in his time, or Frescobaldi?

[HARMONICO101]

Or Pergolesi, or Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, Locatelli, Arcangelo Corelli, probably one of the most influential composers of the Baroque.

[HARMONICO101]

Pergolesi wrote a Stabat Mater that became very famous just after he died of tuberculosis in his twenties. It became the most published musical work of the 18th century, and remains a popular piece to this day. J.S. Bach even wrote a cantata using the music of the Stabat Mater, but with German text.

Although his other works have been generally ignored, his Mass in F for two choirs and two orchestras (which I have uploaded) was hailed as genius in his own time.

[HARMONICO101]

Indeed, Handel's famous sarabande is very similar to this, and it was likely Handel new that as well.

[hervemuraccioli]

folia is a dance, so you can find many pieces looking to be similar.

[gdbalck]

The main theme of Handels Sarabande for the hapsicord concerto is a follia indeed

[pianist7137]

Does anyone have the score and parts of this piece?

[KarlAmade]

Marin Marai's and Vivaldi's folias are the best ones, simply because both of them had deep minds I believe... Marais were quite... sad men periods of his life... In Vivaldi's music we find many musical sentences with great emotions.... Oh gof bless them both;)

[sk8nruff]

Many pitches were used all over europe until it's standardization in the 20th century. There's a wonderful book by Bruce Haynes, "A History of Performing Pitch: the Story of A" that's more than complete. Think of it as the pitch bible. 'And yea, it was decided that ton d'opera in Paris was to be 392 while Church pitch in Venice was to be 465.' :P I jest but you guys get the idea.

[HARMONICO101]

There's a whole book on the history of performing pitch? I have to go look for that... thanks!

[nfrolo]

that's noy d minor, it is C#m

[HARMONICO101]

With baroque tuning it is indeed C# minor.

[vcmuzik]

Yes, back in the Baroque era, A was 415Hz, unlike the 440Hz /442Hz standards that we use now.

[HARMONICO101]

In fact, I've seen the tuning as low as 375hz, which is around a whole tone lower. I've only seen that with Corelli, Marin Marais, and Buxtehude however.

[RoiSoleilC]

very good video

[barbkaus]

Love it, indeed. Love Vivaldi and Corelli. Love that picture, too. :)) !!

[SalvadorHU]

This is a fantastic record! Do you know whether Alessandro Scarlatti's variation of the folia can be found somewhere?

[wsmith49]

Goodness, how silly of me. Thanks for pointing out the link. My cybernetic incompetence continues to transcend the phenomenal. Do you perchance have a recording of Marin Marais' Folia? "Les Folies D'Espagne" I think Marin's is usually titled. Or is this also extant on your site and my deaf, dumb & blind navigation has again triumphed in failing to spot the baluchitherium in the room? Thank you again for laying out this tantalizing banquet for the soul.

[HARMONICO101]

I do actually have a recording of the Marais Folia, but it is too long to post (around twelve minutes).

[wsmith49]

Such a lovely folia. Choosing between Vivaldi's and Corelli's is like choosing between fresh raspberries and fresh cherries. Are you aware of the site "la folia a musical cathedral"? I recommend googling the phrase and having a look. But fear not, they don't have even a sample of Vivaldi's trio sonata folia there. Yours is the best on the net I've found to date. Many kind thanks.

[HARMONICO101]

Actually, just in the description, I conveniently have a link to the very site you speak of!

[HARMONICO101]

Oh and by the way, your analogy comparing the Vivaldi and Corelli folias couldn't be more true!

[KyotoMelody]

Thank you, thank you.

[jonathantosio]

God I hope I can do this in my chamber group this semester. Would be ****ing awesome!

[cochise1318]

ive yearned to know the name of this masterpeice; im so very glad i found it.

[BarNuun]

Are there... seven stringed instruments in this picture? An allegory perhaps for 7 wisdoms or 7 vices, depending on how the heart beats. Lovely music by which to contemplate them.

[guirexyz]

BarNuun,

So, don't leave us hanging! How does your heart beat regarding the 7 vices? Patricia

[ferdyjuniantyo]

from i come to this world this is the best song i have ever heard....no matter what how i will love this song

[homousios]

I like this. Excellent. Didn't Rachmaninoff compose some variations based on the "La Folia" theme?

[flaviotrue]

Yes, but I think he worked on Corelli's version.

[wolfgang7445]

Yes he did, so did the master Antonio Salieri

[HARMONICO101]

I need to listen to some Salieri. I hear that he wrote some really excellant music.

[byf43]

Excellent!

[catnet1]

This is the best Vivaldi I have ever heard!

[oepsewoeps]

I still prefer the Corelli version, even although there aren´t much differences

[daemonolator]

I prefer Corelli's version as well but, as you said, there isn't much to choose between them. Both are excellent. Vivaldi's effort is probably more elaborate.

[Pianist1991]

Very beautifull...