I've been watching the TV show the Tudors lately, after getting home from teaching, and it inspired me to look up music of that period (they featured historic composer Thomas Tallis as a character on the show, which was most entertaining).
Being a string player, I searched youtube for clips featuring a viola da gamba, an ancestor of the modern cello. I found a performance of a piece by Abel, a contemporary of Mozart (about 200 years later than Henry VIII)
This piece features performer Nima Ben David, and she is just out of this world. Watch the bow speed for how she maximizes the ring of the instrument. The structure of the piece itself is meant to maximize the resonance of the instrument.
Check it out here.
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Are you promoting online gamba-ing? :)
ReplyDeleteOnly if they're Abel!
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