Baldassare Galuppi: Concerto a quattro No. 2

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Uploaded by on May 30, 2008

Slovak Chamber Orchestra
Bohdan Warchal

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  • I like Galuppi so much. It is excellent music but almost nobody knows him!:(

  • @Mercer1012

    Wow!! That's truly cool that you write in the Neapolitan style! Durante is one of my favorites also!!

    HARMONICO101 has got a great recording of Raglan performing "La Pazzia" posted. Search:

    "Durante - Concerto for Strings in A Major "La Pazzia"

    Highly recommended!

    Very, best wishes on your quest to transfer the Neapolitan paradigm to modern compositional practice!

  • @Mercer1012

    So, since I can't post a link here, I'd ask you to consider searching the following on Youtube:

    "Baldassare Galuppi Accademia Bizantina"

    The first video which comes up in the search results is an example of a performance which I think does pretty well... (Yes, the one with the weird picture of the cat... don't ask me!)

  • @Mercer1012 It's a shame, really. Baldassare Galuppi is one of the great masters. His contrapuntal practice is, frankly, Bachian at times. (Though, of course, his goals are different, clearly more on the "Galant" side of things...)

    I'm afraid the valiant efforts of ensembles such as the Slovak Chamber Orchestra, do not help much to spread the gospel according to Galuppi, unfortunately!

  • @isitvalottioryoung1 Ah yes...I should have phrased that differently. I should have said "this is much closer to how it would have been played back in the day as compared to the romanticized modern versions on the market today." I cannot stand romanticized versions. First they slow the pieces down too much, (in my experience, Baroque and Classical music, unless SPECIFICALLY noted by the composer is meant to be played faster rather than slower).

  • @isitvalottioryoung1 Well first I would like to thank you for your kind comments. As I am a pianist by training, you know much more about period violin playing than I do because I only have a rudimentary knowledge of violin technique. I, however, consider myself somewhat of a critic of baroque, galant and classical music. I write music in the Neapolitan Style (Durante is my favorite Neapolitan composer) with Mozart and Vivaldi playing an influence.

  • @Mercer1012 For example, I just counted from about 00:44 to 01:18 as I was listening to the 1st violin line being played at exactly the same volume with no articulative variance whatsoever, before I couldn't stand to listen any longer. This is not phrasing; This is the absence of phrasing --CERTAINLY not "Baroque" phrasing by any stretch.

    And the vibrato... Oh, Lord almighty, don't even get me started...

  • @Mercer1012 I agree with everything you mentioned right up until the last sentence you typed, God love you!

    So here's the deal, my friend: Not that it matters much, but , as it turns out, I happen to be a "period" specialist and a full-time performer myself. The truth is, given the state of research at which we have arrived today, the performance featured in this video is actually VERY far away from anything that would be considered REMOTELY "how it would have been back in the day."

  • @Mercer1012 I thank you very kindly for your enthusiastic response, good Sir or Madam!

    You seem like an honest cat ,so I'm going to take a brief moment to respond to you honestly, in turn... See, the truth is, my original comment was a example of my own penchant for being BITTERLY sarcastic... What can I say, I'm just a sour, old, curmudgeon, I guess!

    I am actually delighted to be replying to someone who has, ostensibly, familiarized his or herself with the Leopold Mozart, God bless you!

  • @isitvalottioryoung1 No. Vibrato is the absolute worst thing you could use more of here. You see, until the whole music world became "romanticized" by all of the Romantic era composers who liked to use WAY too much vibrato, vibrato was used sparingly if at all. (Leopold Mozart's violin training book said something almost exactly along those lines: vibrato is to be used very sparingly if at all.) This is perfect how it is, it is played how it would have been back in the day.

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