Always great to see a new upload from Early Music Sources

Your scholarship and ability to present the material so clearly is as amazing as always. And, what a wonderful performance by you and Elizabeth! I could hear Elizabeth delineate the different implied voices and still create an overarching melodic line throughout each section. Your realization was exceptional; creating countermelodies and imitation that pulled my ear into hearing the performance as chamber music rather than solo with accompaniment. I knew this video was something special the moment I heard the opening theme.

Only just discovered your fabulous channel - this episode is hugely useful to anyone studying this sonata on any instrument. Thank you!

What a gem! 🌸 Another outstanding episode, masterfully executed (visually and performance-wise), full of nuanced theoretical-analytical details. You really bring to life the modern and experimental aspects of distant music pasts in a touching and vivid way!

I can't express my appreciation for your beautifully thought-out videos! To find one in my email in the morning is a pleasure that makes my whole day.

I enjoy these "deep dives" into the scores, SO MUCH! Not just because of the sly bits of humor that you always scatter in, but because in this kind of format, and with your truly excellent explanations, I can much more easily follow all that's going on. Part of it might be the literal "motion" of the score, and my own way of learning that really appreciates having sound and motion both together. But I think far more is your own well thought out script and your true talent for teaching us. Always such a wonderful experience to learn more about early music with you!!! Thank you!

Thank you for this! I've always thought Castello is a very underrated composer.

I have always enjoyed playing Castello's sonatas, and this is a wonderful presentation of them.

delightful playing!

Thank you very much for this excellent content as always!!❤❤❤ Have a nice week❤

another lovely variation of the opening theme to add to the collection!

A superb episode. This channel is such a treasure. Thank you!

Beatiful playing from both. One of my favourite 17th C sonatas. I would love to see you do a deep dive on the whole book.

That playing is 🔥 What a beautiful way to breathe new life into a piece such as this.

I have just decided to start learning this piece. I feel so lucky to find your excellent video about it. Thank you so much.

Thank you very much!

Fantastic video as always, and excellent playing Elizabeth!

This is such a great channel! ❤

So interesting, as usual, thank you Elam!

Thank you Elam. You have added to my knowledge this morning.

Another excellent video on one of my favorite composers (I featured him on my channel before). I´m really glad you covered Castello and hope that you will someday talk about other obscure composers like Marini, Buonamente, Fontana, Cesare et al. Thank you!

Excellent work, fabulous performance, intriguing continuo decisions! Thank you for footnote 14 ;-)

Just last week i played the harpsichord when we performed his Sonata Seconda in d. Very interesting piece!

It is a shame that more music history classes are not more like your videos! You provide detailed, meticulous analysis in an accessible (and, dare I say, entertaining) way. Thanks to both of you also for the gorgeous playing. Very inspiring!

Wonderful and crunchy as always 💛

This sonata is such an awesome work, I love the many elements that made it modern for its time! Did the sonata's unrelated character changes evolve into the later phenomenon of having multiple movements?

This is one of the most beautiful pieces played and explained in this, already, extraordinary channel.

Reminds me a lot of Heinrich Biber Mystery Sonatas. I didn't know that style went back so far.

Wonderful analysis so far of that piece, maybe one of the most important solo sonatas of that period, found till now. Could we want also make suggestion about an idea of this canzona, cause this one sounded to me more as dramatic aria, then just a kind of variation on the theme. Second, it's clear one can hear a plot behind contrasting parts in the form of dialogue, nevertheless it was written for a soprano, but probably could be performed by two players? Where the passages progress rhythmically and tension becomes overwhelming, comes a cadenza, as the answer of what was said above. Even more interesting is the final unaswered question, which have effect in the sixth bar before the end, resulting in the truly passionate cadenza ( a desire to find the truth), as though he tells "Maybe next time" or "Is it true?", smth like that...

Always wonderful!

another excellent episode

Great work =)

Bravo, gracias, precioso episodio!!!

Thank you for this information 🙌

I loved this video. Will you ever play and analyse a sonata from Schmelzer or Pandolfi Mealli? I'd love to learn more about them!

Lovely, a new upload! Great episode!

Fantastic

Bravo!!! Great video!’

Thank you 000 Elam

Brilliant, and such an inspirational analysis as always. Thank you!

Danke!

This was lovely - and great playing, both of you.

Admirably presented.

This piece has a emotional meaning for me. Thank you for this video ❤️

Bravo

Very informative; superbly presented

Bravissimo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💐💐💐

Veramente molto ben fatto e suonato! Complimenti

Very interesting and enjoyable video

Capitolo davvero interessantissimo! Ottimo materiale di studio, riflessione ed ispirazione, molti complimenti!

GREAT SOLO PIECE , NEVER HEARS OF CASTELLO BEFORE.

Congratulazioni Elam, chiaro ed esaustivo.

Потрясающе!

Wonderfull! Thank you! Will you post another vid just with the recording of the sonata?

If you wish, It Will be very interesting a video about Glareanus' dodecachordon

Wow! I play the renaissance recorder and it was extremely helpful!!! Is this recording uploaded uninterrupted maybe? I would love to hear it !

Ooooo, nice Escher reference.

Highly welcome program on instrumental music. Time constrains no doubt kept you from discussing the question of what instruments actually would have played the BC, and from bringing in the brilliant violinist Elizabeth Sommers for some details on violin performance practice, such as why the t (trillo? = gruppo?) is mostly played like a kind of flattement as in viol music. I am sure there are very good reasons for that and other idiomatic features of the violin part, so maybe in another episode?

Great episode, as always! Just pointing out that the rythm in 7:21 is actually 4/2 for anyone who got confused like me.

I love your videos. What software do you use to create these? Thanks! JC

12:20 "Ad agio" può essere tradotto con "at ease".

It's amazing how Castello's sonate concertate were a cornerstone in instrumental music altogether. the title itself deserves discussion (concertate?) What do you think? And thank you for these amazing videos, and I hope to hear more from this awesome duo!

I see! So from here starts the tradition of Ignazio Albertini and H.I.F Bieber's music ❤❤❤❤

I like the young edgy rebels!

Could you please explain what this type of ornament at 15:05 is? This kind of microtonal "weeping" sound, I've heard it in many early music violin pieces (also in your Rappresentazione, Elam) and I've always wondered if it has a name. It's beautiful!

14:41 what do you mean the resolution to the G is not valid? it quite literally is just a V/V to iv cadence the A 9th is a suspension. the A is resolved to G and then moves to Bb. The anchor on A moved to G, thus the dissonance was resolved to a consonance.

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I've long enjoyed Castello, in particular his duo sonatas. What's the relation to the solo sonatas? Were they a further development from the solo? Also: The other day I came across Francesco Turini who has written very similar stuff. They seem to have been contemporaries though operating out of different cities. Did one influence the other, or was this kind of music just "in the air"?

You reminded me of a recurrent question- regarding origin of the canzona- nearly all of them start with the rhythmic motif :long short short. Where does this come from? Can you point to a ref?

Where did the Early Music Sorce's intro came from? Is It an original composition?

Could you recommend me a book that discusses ornaments in structuring melodic lines in the style of Corelli?

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4:26 you meant 1623 right?

This is the first 17th century music I have heard in my life, it was life-changing I suppose.

This reminds me a lot of Georg Muffat’s Sonata in D, played brilliantly at 5:58 here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/npxoes9jqdGakZc.html

Excelent video! 14:40 I would have expected the Gm9 chord (sorry for the modern notation) on the third beat of the adagio to come a little earlier. Sorry to say this, but it comes too late and doesn't show the dissonance in all its glory. Thanks.

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