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Biagio Marini (1594-1663): Sonata in Ecco con tre violini from Opus 8
0:00 Opening
0:18 Sonata in Ecco
5:34 Credits
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin • YuEun Gemma Kim, violin • Cynthia Keiko Black, violin • Corey Jamason, organ
Eddie Frank, video • Chris Landen, audio
American Bach Soloists • Jeffrey Thomas, Artistic Director
Filmed in March 2021 in the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts (Davis, California).
How we made the video: americanbach.org/Videos-Backs...
Biagio Marini was known as a virtuoso violinist. Born in Brescia, his travels took him to Brussels, Düsseldorf, Venice, Padua, Parma, Ferrara, Milan, Bergamo, then back to his home town of Brescia. Not only a busy traveler, his personal life was busy, too: He married three times and fathered at least five children. His compositions, especially for violin, are innovative, incorporating several “special effects” including double and triple stops, and the technique of retuning the violin’s strings (known as scordatura) to create greater sonority from the instrument. In the Sonata in Ecco con tre violini, the primary violinist appears to be performing a complex solo sonata until, quite surprisingly, two violins begin to echo the ends of some phrases. Marini's dramatic intention is described quite literally in the surviving score which indicates for the second violinist (the first echo), “Chi sona questa parte non deve esser visto” (“Whoever plays this part must not be seen”), and even more emphatically for the third violinist (the second echo), “Quello che suona non deve esser visto” (“What is heard is not to be seen”).
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