Viola da Gamba goes contemporary

[ghigo85]

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.



Please, give me feedback and suggestions

 

[foq1978]

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

 

[bassteban]

Feedback: VERY nice
Suggestion: More, please

 

[bassteban]

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

 

[odin70]

Nice!

 

[ghigo85]

Thank you to all!!!

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

 

[bassteban]

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]

This was a joy to listen to and watch.

 

[Jim Campbell]

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]

Thank you so much!
I'm so happy of your feedbacks

 

[HaVIC5]

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.