Giovanni Battista Fontana - Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Basso Continuo
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Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589-1630)
Sonata No. 2 in D Major for Violin and Basso Continuo
Chatham Baroque
Andrew Fouts (violin)
Patricia Halverson (viola da gamba)
Scott Pauley (theorbo)
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The 2020 pandemic has uprooted plans for graduation celebrations, travel, family weddings, reunions and much more. (And if only that, one feels fortunate!) So it was with great pleasure that Andrew Fouts, Scott Pauley, and I gathered together for the first time since February to record Giovanni Battista Fontana’s Sonata No. 2 in D Major in the beautiful sanctuary of Calvary Episcopal Church.
Fontana’s creative output was small, unfortunately. He died in Padua from the 1629-31 plague 11 years before the publication of his only collection of music. Chatham Baroque has performed this piece countless times. The sonata’s quick transitions in character and tempo portray a sense of lightness and searching and contrast with moments of tenderness and joy and hope.
- Patricia Halverson
Absolutely beautiful
Wonderful playing and beautiful music.
Fabulous performance and a lovely composition.
Three fabulous musicians and human beings! Well done, my friends! You're a Pittsburgh treasure!
Wonderful performance! Like your choices, Andrew.
STUNNING!!!
This is just lovely....such talent and perfectly performed. Thank you for sharing this with us!! Love you guys.....
So beautiful! Thank You ❤
Beautiful in every respect!
what beauty!
So beautiful
Thank you!
Oh! How I love that viola! So many strings! Only overmatched by the 4pi steradians strings viola!
beautiful!
Exageradamte hermosa. Magníficos ejecutores de una melodía que te transporta, te envuelve y te lleva a otras épocas, otras dimensiones, otros espacios. Preciosa, por decir lo menos.
🎻🎻🎻🎻🌞🍀🎵💒
does anyone know what tempo this is in?
So Fontana died of plague. Ironic in a sad sort of way. Beautiful playing, though!
As to be expected the music is of the highest quality but it's all rather disconcerting to see you wearing masks when you are apparently 6' apart in an empty(ish) church without audience. Maybe you feel it necessary to make some sort of statement but I hope not and that this was incidental to your fundamental belief in the efficacy of masks and your desire to not infect the other. But apart from the visual oddity the sound is as expertly wonderful as I have come to expect from you.
What is wrong with you ? At this point, of a thousand fellow citizens loosing their lives each day, I would applaud a dog wearing a mask. We need every beacon of light showing the need to combat this plague. These artists share themselves each time they perform. Thank you very much for this act of artistic and social bravery. They are musicians and pride themselves on the sounds they create and if their masks are off putting for you, try a beach in Florida.
Hi Hugh! Not a statement. This was the first time in months that the musicians played together in the same space, and they just wanted to play it safe.
A mask might mute the sound of a human voice but the instruments of these marvelous musicians are not masked and isn't the music what it is all about?
I think this was recorded at the height of the pandemic. Nobody was vaccinated at this point. It doesn’t bother me one tiny bit.