Re: VIOLA DA GAMBA "Going for Baroque!"

["Dennis Moser" <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com>]

Since you brought it up ... *grin

Here's a shameless little plug for a couple of "virtual" friends of mine: http://www.myspace.com/pantagruelian

We've been communicating back and forth after finding each other on MySpace. Hannah Morrison has "one of those voices" and Mark (Wheeler) and Dominik (Schneider) can only be called "multi-instrumentalists" in the truest sense. Dominik is so hard core as to have made his own Baroque flute.

They are base out of the UK, but tour throughout Europe (Dominik is from Germany). In fact, if anyone reading this is based in Paris, they could use a little help. Read their blog and see what i mean about the Francophilic specifics.

They have also posted some amusing and delightful videos of some of their live performances (also on the MySpace pages). They blog regularly there, too.

Anyway, if you can, do go and give them a listen, if only to take a break and hear an example of where some of all of this came from. Absolutely no looping involved.

Best to all,

Dennis

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Stefan Tiedje <stefantiedje@googlemail.com> wrote:

Todd Matthews schrieb:

I played the violone in an early music ensemble which is kinda like a super sized gamba.

I just attended an extraordinarily beautifull concert with my friends
Hille Perl on Viola da Gamba and Lee Santana on Lute together with their
Viola da Gamba ensemble and Dorothee Mields on voice. Especially for that concert they had been equipped with a matched family of six different sizes of Gambas...
If you hear this absolutely clear and in tune sound of such an
incredible ensemble, you start to imagine what got lost by introducing
vibrato as the standard method of expression, especially the voice in this case has an unmatched clarity, you usually never get from classical singers...

They tour regularly in Europe, if you ever come across such a concert, be sure you don't miss it...

Stefan

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