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  1. ...Or maybe you'd rather like #violadamore and #flute? Well, this was a thing too... ☺️
    youtube.com/watch?v=HoQTa8CJLg
    [Christoph #Graupner: #Concerto for viola d'amore and flute
    Viola d'amore - Donald Maurice
    Flute - Ewa Murawska
    Orkiestra Ars Longa, Poznan
    Conductor - Eugeniusz Dąbrowski]
    #classicalmusic #baroque #baroquemusic #historicallyaccurate #forgotteninstruments

  2. Another day, another #forgotteninstrument... Meet the viola d'amore, similar to a #violin or #viola but with six to seven melodic #strings and, more importantly, a number of non-playable #sympathetic (resonating) metal strings which provide warm, lush and #drone-like #harmonics.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_d%
    #violadamore #forgotteninstruments #classicalmusic #baroquemusic #organology #instrumentarium

  3. Another day, another #forgotteninstrument... Meet the viola d'amore, similar to a #violin or #viola but with six to seven melodic #strings and, more importantly, a number of non-playable #sympathetic (resonating) metal strings which provide warm, lush and #drone-like #harmonics.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_d%
    #violadamore #forgotteninstruments #classicalmusic #baroquemusic #organology #instrumentarium

  4. I returned from my walk to find #ForgottenInstruments was now a thing.

    Which reminded me of the lira organizzata, and the perpetual mystery of how, when Ferdinand IV bought a couple and demanded Haydn write concertos for them, Haydn kept both his job and a straight face.

    If you're wondering, it's probably best left that way, but otherwise there's this:

    youtube.com/watch?v=d5VYSj1eHc

  5. The #arpeggione has now even found its way into #jazz & #moderncreative #music: Simon Drappier plays the arpeggione within the band "Quiet Men", which features a few other not-so-usual instruments. The pairing of the arpeggione with the the #bassclarinet (and oriental #zarb for the rhythmic section) is especially soft and #mellow... Warm music for cold winter days! 🦊
    youtube.com/watch?v=NVjRzhVdz_
    #forgotteninstruments #revival

  6. Interestingly, since the extant "old" repertory for the #arpeggione is limited to exactly that *one* Schubert piece, reviving the instrument entailed commissioning #newmusic for it: a brand new sound for an old, forgotten instrument! Exciting, no? So here's the #Goya-inspired piece "Le Sommeil de la Raison produit des monstres", written by #composer Laurent Mettraux for #cellist & #arpeggionist Nicolas Deletaille: youtube.com/watch?v=PqekXQcBDX
    #classicalmusic #contemporarymusic #forgotteninstruments

  7. Interestingly, since the extant "old" repertory for the #arpeggione is limited to exactly that *one* Schubert piece, reviving the instrument entailed commissioning #newmusic for it: a brand new sound for an old, forgotten instrument! Exciting, no? So here's the #Goya-inspired piece "Le Sommeil de la Raison produit des monstres", written by #composer Laurent Mettraux for #cellist & #arpeggionist Nicolas Deletaille: youtube.com/watch?v=PqekXQcBDX
    #classicalmusic #contemporarymusic #forgotteninstruments

  8. Interestingly, since the extant "old" repertory for the #arpeggione is limited to exactly that *one* Schubert piece, reviving the instrument entailed commissioning #newmusic for it: a brand new sound for an old, forgotten instrument! Exciting, no? So here's the #Goya-inspired piece "Le Sommeil de la Raison produit des monstres", written by #composer Laurent Mettraux for #cellist & #arpeggionist Nicolas Deletaille: youtube.com/watch?v=PqekXQcBDX
    #classicalmusic #contemporarymusic #forgotteninstruments

  9. Interestingly, since the extant "old" repertory for the #arpeggione is limited to exactly that *one* Schubert piece, reviving the instrument entailed commissioning #newmusic for it: a brand new sound for an old, forgotten instrument! Exciting, no? So here's the #Goya-inspired piece "Le Sommeil de la Raison produit des monstres", written by #composer Laurent Mettraux for #cellist & #arpeggionist Nicolas Deletaille: youtube.com/watch?v=PqekXQcBDX
    #classicalmusic #contemporarymusic #forgotteninstruments

  10. Interestingly, since the extant "old" repertory for the #arpeggione is limited to exactly that *one* Schubert piece, reviving the instrument entailed commissioning #newmusic for it: a brand new sound for an old, forgotten instrument! Exciting, no? So here's the #Goya-inspired piece "Le Sommeil de la Raison produit des monstres", written by #composer Laurent Mettraux for #cellist & #arpeggionist Nicolas Deletaille: youtube.com/watch?v=PqekXQcBDX
    #classicalmusic #contemporarymusic #forgotteninstruments

  11. Franz #Schubert's "Arpeggione" #sonata wasn't composed for cello or viola & modern piano (as it is usually played), but for the #arpeggione, a short-lived musical instrument (like a bowed guitar), and of course #pianoforte... While modern transcriptions are beautiful, it's still a *different* pleasure to hear an #historicallyaccurate rendition by #cellist N. Deletaille, who has been spearheading a timid arpeggione revival in #Belgium: youtube.com/watch?v=do9UgdfwM5
    #classicalmusic #forgotteninstruments