Viola da Gamba goes contemporary

ghigo85 · #1 01-08-2010, 07:53 AM

Few months ago I posted a video of me playing a tune of contemporary japanese composer Nobuo Uematsu on viola da gamba, and I promised to link other new videos.

Now I link a composition of italian cello virtuoso Giovanni Sollima...

The original composition is called "Terra Aria".
Conceived for 12 cellos, it was written for the Biennale in Venice.

Here I play it with 12 overdubbed Viola da Gamba.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIuX15HXi8

Please, give me feedback and suggestions

foq1978 · #2 01-08-2010, 09:29 AM

Beautiful. Good to see rare instruments such as this being played nowadays.

bassteban · #3 01-08-2010, 09:44 AM

Feedback: VERY nice

Suggestion: More, please

bassteban · #4 01-09-2010, 09:48 AM

Visibility bump. You might also throw this out over in the DB side, if you haven't already.

odin70 · #5 01-09-2010, 09:56 AM

Nice!

ghigo85 · #6 01-09-2010, 10:15 AM

Thank you to all!!!

Bassteban, thank you! I will put it also in DB side... thank you so much!

bassteban · #7 01-09-2010, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by ghigo85

Thank you to all!!!

Bassteban, thank you! I will put it also in DB side... thank you so much!

Hey, thank you for making want yet another instrument that I can't play!

Sterling_Bass · #8 01-10-2010, 11:03 AM

This was a joy to listen to and watch.

Jim Campbell · #9 01-10-2010, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Sterling_Bass

This was a joy to listen to and watch.

agreed.....be nice to hear on something a tad more hi fi than a computer....

ghigo85 · #10 01-11-2010, 06:12 AM

Thank you so much!

I'm so happy of your feedbacks

HaVIC5 · #11 01-11-2010, 02:19 PM

This is really neat, thanks for sharing. I've always thought that Viola da Gamba deserves a larger spot in the contemporary setting. Everybody pigeonholes it into the Baroque/Early Music niche, and it hasn't gotten a chance to show what it can do in modern music. Great stuff.