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The Art of Variation
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FIRST PUBLISHED 03 NOV 2024
This playlist traces the development of variation form, from its origins in the 16th century to the height of the Baroque. The earliest published example of music in a variation form comes from Spain: Luis Narváez's wrote his Diferencias for vihuela in 1538. Next on the list, we explore the division - a form of variation common in Renaissance viol music, in which the rhythmic beat is successively divided into smaller and smaller values. We then visit William Byrd and his variations for keyboard and John Dowland's stunning Lachrymae Pavans. Two masterpieces of the chaconne form by Monteverdi and Purcell feature next before finally arriving at J.S Bach's compositional masterpiece - and arguably one of the best variation sets ever written - his Goldberg Variations, published in 1741.
Listen below or on our Spotify playlist - 'The Art of Variation.'
Luis Narváez: Seis diferencias del igno de Nuestra Señora
Xavier Diaz-Latorre
William Young: Divisions on a Ground in G Minor
Simone Eckert, Hamberg Ratsmusik Ensemble
John Jenkins: Divisions on a Ground in D Major
Robert Smith, Paolo Pandolfo
Christopher Simpson: Divisions for Two Viols in F Major
Robert Smith, Paolo Pandolfo
William Byrd: Wolsey's Wilde
Sophie Yates
John Dowland: Lachrimae Antiquae from Lachrymae, or Seaven Teares
Fretwork, Christopher Wilson
John Dowland: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae from Lachrymae, or Seaven Teares
John Dowland: Lachrimae Gementes from Lachrymae, or Seaven Teares
John Dowland: Lachrimae Tristes from Lachrymae, or Seaven Teares
John Dowland: Lachrimae Coactae from Lachrymae, or Seaven Teares
John Dowland: Lachrimae Amantis from Lachrymae, or Seaven Teares
John Dowland: Lachrimae Verae from Lachrymae, or Seaven Teares
Claudio Monteverdi: Zefiro Torna, e di soavi accenti, SV 251
William Christie, Les Arts Florissants
Henry Purcell: Chaconne "Two in One upon a Ground" from Dioclesian
Elizabeth Kenny, Mark Caudle, Peter Holman, Susanna Pell, Susane Heinrich
J.S Bach: Goldberg Variations Reimagined, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Aria
Rachel Podger, Chad Kelly, Brecon Baroque
J.S Bach: Goldberg Variations Reimagined, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 1
Rachel Podger, Chad Kelly, Brecon Baroque
J.S Bach: Goldberg Variations Reimagined, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variations 2 - 5
Rachel Podger, Chad Kelly, Brecon Baroque
J.S Bach: Goldberg Variations Reimagined, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variations 6 - 8
Rachel Podger, Chad Kelly, Brecon Baroque
J.S Bach: Goldberg Variations Reimagined, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variations 9 - 10
Rachel Podger, Chad Kelly, Brecon Baroque
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