Voices of Music, Il Giardino Armonico (The Harmonious Garden) and L’Arpeggiata versions of Tarquinio Merula’s Ciaccona, Op.12 No.20 (first published in 1637).
Tarquinio Merula: Ciaccona. Voices of Music
Live video from the San Francisco based Early Music Ensemble Voices of Music Capriccio Stravagante Concert 2008, performed on original instruments:
Il Giardino Armonico – ‘Ciaccona’ by Tarquinio Merula
A beautiful video from “Il Giardino Armonico: Music of the Italian Baroque (2000)”, Paul Fenkart.
L’Arpeggiata: Ciaccona (Tarquinio Merula)
Ciaccona (French: chaconne, Spanish: chacona; Italian: ciaccona; earlier English: chacony) is a type of musical composition popular in the baroque era when it was much used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short repetitive bass-line (ground bass) which offered a compositional outline for variation, decoration, figuration and melodic invention.
Sources
- Chaconne on Wikipedia
- Bach: Concerto for 2 Harpsichords & Strings in C Major, BWV 1061 [Katia & Marielle Labèque, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini] - December 2, 2022
- Mozart: Flute Concerto in D Major [Henrik Wiese] - November 27, 2022
- Lea Desandre & Thibault Cauvin perform Sì dolce è’l tormento [Monteverdi] - November 26, 2022
