Bertali - Ciaconna

[mgnicolls]

must have been fairly brisk of step. lively and playful, no? and flirtatious.

[PaddyButton]

Sweet, sweet music.

[hylozoik]

timeless "swing" =))

[BogdanKrawalski]

the gods must dancing to this

[malcolmcolemann]

Rock on!

[BogdanKrawalski]

:)

[CminorMaxG]

I know Italian, but I do know Latin, et animum ruri Italiani carpeto a ha musica barocca. Multas gratias mi amice opero mirabili.

[rosten736]

I just discovered this piece today and I love it!! There's a great performance on youtube by Voices of Music from SF CA. I've found this piece also written by Kapsberger, Merula, & Cazzati. Does anyone know the origin of this melody or who first composed a piece using it?

[BackflyingBird]

@rosten736 And Anonymous (Ciaccona Paradiso e Inferno), and I think not one else )) It's just a ground like Follia, Bergamasca, Monica etc...

When I firstly listened this Ciaccona I asked: "What year is it?????"

[allengarvin]

@rosten736 The origin is pretty obscure... it was a 16th century Spanish dance, possibly from the new world... no one actually wrote down how it was danced, so that's pretty much lost.

Monteverdi's Zefiro Torna, though, is usually credited with the introduction and popularization of the form into early Baroque Italy, the source that inspired so many composers to write elaborate treble variations on top of the simple ground bass.

[rosten736]

@allengarvin Thanks. I hadn't heard that one by Monteverdi (1567-1643) before. What about Giovanni de' Bardi's Un Sarao de la Chaconna? He lived 1534-1612, so Monteverdi must have written it early in his life if it predates Bardi's?

[kaver749]

A song that strikes me to the heart. I love this song so much!

[grandadpoppyable]

Bravo Scott Pauley. Amazing Basso continuo line on the Theorbo I think. A type of Lute.

[Max0Inq]

Beauitful painting!

[noonescrying]

That paint, of who?

[risterion]

chacona.

(De or. inc.).

1. f. Baile español de los siglos XVI y XVII, muy extendido por Europa.

2. f. Música de este baile.

3. f. Composición poética escrita para dicho baile.

4. f. Pieza instrumental inspirada en él.

RAE

[critical830]

Italian baroque is it! Divinely inspiring....

[Huphlungpoo]

Most modern rock sounds like this. I think Metallica stole from this..

[47einar]

Nydelig

[TheLousyCat]

I love it!!!

This Video was recommended to me by a friend and I must say - I am speechless!!

This music makes me feel so happy and weightless...

Thank you so much for uploading this!!

[TheLousyCat]

I love it!!!

This Video was recommended to me by a friend and I must say - I am speechless!!

This music makes me feel so happy and weightless...

Thank you so much for uploading this!!

[abelizable]

the violin sounds beautiful

[solarisqs]

I like the slurring phrasing from the violin, even if it jars with the manuscript indication - I think it flows nicely

[dantoshou]

theres a weird variation of this i found thats played on guitar, i dont even know who played it!

[vickiviolini]

It's strange. This music seems to me almost modern in some way, yet it is almost 400 years old. It almost sounds jazzy. Maybe it's all those great variations.

Thank you for posting. This is wonderful.

[swanski100]

@vickiviolini it sounds very modern in a way, my first thought when i heard it was "if you want to sing out" by cat stevens

[jimmymortis]

@vickiviolini This is what I thought to! I like the version better that I heard on sunday baroque, but anyhoo it really does have this quaint modern feel. I am sure the repetition of this style (the chaconne) is one part that aids that.

[KmBdstudios]

@vickiviolini Agreed

[duktak17]

@vickiviolini proof that good stuff never really gets old :)

[mengenstrom]

Wow, this music is really good! Should have heard earlier from this composer.

[433138]

Yes, Bertali was one of the greatest composers of the 17th century, as testified by many of his contemporaries. Incidentally, this is one of his least spectacular compositions!

[OriginalMoonbeam]

Such a beautiful piece and performed with such excellecence! Thank you very much!

[433138]

It's a shame though that the violinist here slurs a lot of the rapid passage work (technically easier!), whilst the ms makes clear which passages are to be slurred. It loses some of its spark that way.

[433138]

Another problem I find with the performance here is that the viol feels the need to improvise (or rather copy from the violin part) its own pasage work (eg. 4:16-4:40). This disturbs the well-planned moments of repose in the piece.

[433138]

Well, I suppose that is the beauty of youtube. Anyway, what is it to you who I am? I was not nasty about the musicians, I am just stating facts and supporting my own opinion which is based on researching and performing this type of music professionally for many years. If it is any consolation: I do not need to know who you are either!

[bobbyzz94]

a wonderful composition - it's so great and full of ideas and only around two bars - awesome...

[433138]

The interesting thing is the modulatory passage from C maj to a min in which the bass modulates down a min third in every statement of the two-bar bass formula.

[emilygclarinet]

So pretty!

[baalhaophanim]

The Ciaccona is the most approppate music to portarait the dance of the galaxies, the way the things evolve armonically, in the concert of the Universe, with the cycle of depart, and return, sistole, and diastole the two letters HEI of the Name of God, inhalation and exhalation

[Viahandel06]

I love it :)

[Kiddfan777]

Can I die and go to Heaven already?  This music is wonderful.

[corvacorax99]

i heard this yesterday for the first time on my car radio -- pulled over (enthralled) -- wrote it down (that version was played by musica fiat, also beautiful)-- came home hours later and looked it up here -- and have listened to it about 35 times since (aside from finding, as i listen to more and more of your videos, that i truly love baroque music.)

thank you!!

[patrickcommiskey]

this is so beautiful

[MaBu888]

MVSICA.

[sciprio]

this piece is very cool.

[OedipusColoneus]

Beautiful. :)

[nbtothepower]

i luv this! thanks for posting.

[Pianist1991]

This is nice!

[robwushu]

very good