Bertali - Ciaconna

ANTONIO BERTALI (1605-1669)
Ciaconna for a treble instrument and basso continuo
Performed by Catham Baroque
*Live Recording
**Antonio Bertali was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era.
He was born in Verona and received early music education there. Probably from 1624, he was employed as court musician in Vienna by Emperor Ferdinand II. In 1649 Bertali succeeded Giovanni Valentini as court Kapellmeister. He died in Vienna in 1669.
Bertali's compositions are in the manner of other northern Italian composers of the time and include operas, oratorios, a large number of liturgical works, and chamber music. Particularly his operas are notable for establishing the tradition of Italian opera seria in Vienna. Approximately half of his output is now lost; copies survive made by Bertali's contemporary, Pavel Josef Vejvanovský, some of the pieces are currently in possession of Vienna's Hofbibliothek, the library of the Kremsmünster Abbey and the Kroměříž archive. The most important source for Bertali's work is, however, the Viennese Distinta Specificatione catalogue, which lists several composers of the Habsburg court and provides titles and scoring for more than 2000 compositions.

[@hudlifuk]

I love ciaconnas, I feel alwyas better after hear some of them

[@MacJaxonManOfAction]

Me too, and this is one of my very favourites :)

[@alessiadamo676]

❤❤❤❤❤yes!

[@micheled2069]

J'aime à la folie le rythme entêtant des chaconnes. Je les collectionne avec passion. Vive la musique baroque !!!

[@roberttompkins7248]

I love this Bertali piece, sometimes I play it several times in a row!

[@raymondvillain]

It's over 400 years old, and it sounds so modern. It brings to mind some snatches of current rock and roll.

[@PANDORASBOXRELEASE]

A lot of Rock n' Roll is based on classical music. Which is why there are quite a few metal heads that love classical music. Also, this music does sound very ahead of it's time! Feel as if a vocalist should come in any time.

[@malisong9632]

Totally agreed!

[@akirak1871]

It really does! I had KZbin on autoplay when this came on... When I heard the first few seconds, I thought, "why would it play some kind of '70s rock when I was listening to Jean-Baptiste Lully a minute ago??" It's a beautiful piece.

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

For me, this often put me in mind of jazz. The Chaconne, a dance originating from Spain or perhaps Latin America was the rock & roll of its time - irreverent, frowned on by society, rhythmic and highly reliant on the guitar. For instance, if you check out the score of Purcell's Dido & Aeneas you see a spot where it says - 'danse, a gitters chaconny' (i.e. dance a guitar's chaconne) without specifying any music - a bit like saying 'jam a 12 bar blues.' 100 or so years later and the form would evolve into the rarified atmosphere of the Bach Chaconne.

[@samantharyan984]

It sounds familiar because it contains the I-V-vi-IV chord progression, which is very common in pop/rock songs. Check out the Axis of Awesome's "Four Chord Song" video.

[@MacJaxonManOfAction]

This is music to beguile the cares; to entertain the body, to entrance the mind and transport the soul. Utterly beautiful

[@prettyinblue1985]

Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.

[@belkismartin7019]

!!!!MARAVILLOSO!!!! DESPUES DE TANTA TRAGEDIA ESTA MUSICA LEVANTA EL ANIMO!!!AL MUNDO.!!!! MI CARIÑO PARA TODOS....SOBRE TODOS LOS NIÑOS QUE LO ESTAN PASANDO MAL!!!!🌿🎈🎈💝🌿🎈🎈🌿.

[@forstflieger]

That`s the joy of living in its essential expression! A dreamy music from an another, better world...

[@vickiviolini]

It's strange. This music seems to me almost modern in some way, yet it is almost 400 years old. It almost sounds jazzy. Maybe it's all those great variations. Thank you for posting. This is wonderful.

[@kaver749]

A song that strikes me to the heart. I love this song so much!

[@FRAGIORGIO1]

Bellissima musica con senso di ballare. A wonderful piece for dancing; so full of movement. Thanks/Grazie per le note/ for the notes.

[@Davccelion]

It's amazing how this sound brings to my mind my country (yes, I know the melody is italian, while I am from Spain) Narrow streets in the old Madrid, with baroque buildings around in a fresh fall morning. I am really missing it.

[@mariasing8155]

Davccelion we love Spain anyway ;)

[@Davccelion]

Mia Vitelli , so kind of you. I also love Italy.

[@saborfrancias]

La Chacona es un estilo hispano no italiano

[@Davccelion]

@@saborfrancias , sí, pero Bertali no era español, sino italiano ( y algo del estilo de su tierra debió de poner en la chacona que creó,me figuro). A eso me refería.

[@josephineragusa3667]

Beautiful transports to me another time and place, va bene il mio cuore e contento! e anche la mia mente.

[@alessiadamo676]

❤

[@weile4u]

Amazing! Magnificent!! An early peak of European culture.

[@freddiefullerton7631]

Definitely an openness to Pachelbel's Canon in d. Both are undeniably beautiful

[@SantiagoGarcia-od5gr]

Bellísima música de esta genial Ciaccona de Antonio Bertali. Excelentes publicaciones éstas que se esmeran por difundir la buena, excelsa y verdadera música.

[@PaddyButton]

Sweet, sweet music.

[@TheChivo666]

I wouldn't find anything else more beautiful than this.

[@vespasian123456]

You definitely need to try harder then.

[@TheChivo666]

? Why?

[@smike-lz8uf]

Ignore him! You're absolutely right! :-)

[@giuseppedimauro7723]

Bellissima musica 🎶

[@Lotrfan016]

i adore this piece

[@gerakinsorriso9206]

Quanta gioia!

[@freddiefullerton7631]

So beautiful

[@MedievalRichard]

Wonderful.

[@MrLandale]

Love it! Love it!

[@billywatts315]

Just research Italian composers after hearing this on public radio and all I can say is magnificent.

[@PatrickCommiskey]

this is so beautiful

[@Viahandel06]

I love it :)

[@luisp.9186]

Great !!!

[@harryhope5492]

wonderful

[@BogdanKrawalski]

the gods must dancing to this

[@vespasian123456]

No.

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

This music makes me want to get a baroque guitar

[@lukes1233]

One of the first known songs with the 4 infamous chords

[@sunzsu]

I agree totally. This was my first thought, too. Very modern!

[@baalhaophanim]

The Ciaccona is the most approppate music to portarait the dance of the galaxies, the way the things evolve armonically, in the concert of the Universe, with the cycle of depart, and return, sistole, and diastole the two letters HEI of the Name of God, inhalation and exhalation

[@JudeMontague]

I like the slurring phrasing from the violin, even if it jars with the manuscript indication - I think it flows nicely

[@emilygclarinet]

So pretty!

[@robwushu]

very good

[@vasileVVvasile]

Senzational !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@malcolmcolemann]

Rock on!

[@swanski100]

@vickiviolini it sounds very modern in a way, my first thought when i heard it was "if you want to sing out" by cat stevens

[@AlienHazard]

I can do the violin part. Who can do the rest

[@Silvertongue8]

Fair play,, 😊!!

[@risterion]

chacona. (De or. inc.). 1. f. Baile español de los siglos XVI y XVII, muy extendido por Europa. 2. f. Música de este baile. 3. f. Composición poética escrita para dicho baile. 4. f. Pieza instrumental inspirada en él. RAE

[@KmBdstudios]

@vickiviolini Agreed

[@AllenGarvin]

@rosten736 The origin is pretty obscure... it was a 16th century Spanish dance, possibly from the new world... no one actually wrote down how it was danced, so that's pretty much lost. Monteverdi's Zefiro Torna, though, is usually credited with the introduction and popularization of the form into early Baroque Italy, the source that inspired so many composers to write elaborate treble variations on top of the simple ground bass.

[@saborfrancias]

Allen Garvin Wrong. Juan Arañes published 10 years before his Chacona. It's an Hispanic melody.

[@matiasleno9190]

Lindo :)

[@newfell1]

Is there any informations about the painting ? Thanks for sharing this masterpiece.

[@BogdanKrawalski]

:)

[@noonescrying]

That paint, of who?

[@47einar]

Nydelig

[@MrGufidaun]

Just awful intonation problems!

[@vespasian123456]

Djembe problem with your brain?

[@user-jj7kh1dk6c]

Yeah you probably have the most perect hearng in the world, better even than mozart so only you can hear it