Metal and Gut: Two “Violas of Love”
Daniel McCarthy and the Viola d’Amore
Date & Location
Composers
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christoph Graupner
Christian Petzold
Georg Philipp Telemann
Antonio Vivaldi
Chamber Series
The Viola d’Amore was an instrument unique in timbre and resonance that evoked special emotions in operas and cantatas of the finest Baroque composers. With no uniform tuning or construction, surviving examples use anywhere from four to seven strings, with as many as 21 “sympathetic strings.” Two distinct versions of the instrument existed, one with bowed strings of gut, and another using metal wire—the type originally heard in J.S. Bach’s compositions. Multi-instrumentalist Daniel McCarthy will showcase both instruments, with collaborators David Ross, Julie Bosworth, and Marc Bellassai.
...Chamber Series
The Viola d’Amore was an instrument unique in timbre and resonance that evoked special emotions in operas and cantatas of the finest Baroque composers. With no uniform tuning or construction, surviving examples use anywhere from four to seven strings, with as many as 21 “sympathetic strings.” Two distinct versions of the instrument existed, one with bowed strings of gut, and another using metal wire—the type originally heard in J.S. Bach’s compositions. Multi-instrumentalist Daniel McCarthy will showcase both instruments, with collaborators David Ross, Julie Bosworth, and Marc Bellassai.
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