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20 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments bengy
Just snatching some time between playing pieces for a Christmas recording! Today, we were supposed to have concerts at the church which our home base. In exchange for being able to use the church for recordings and rehearsals, we provide music for s...
15 Dec 2020 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Last week, I had taken my Viola d'amore back to the luthier who had made it, to have a new bridge recut and fitted after it was a bit jury-rigged for a repair a couple of years ago. It's a bit of a trek to get out there, almost 2.5 hours by tr...
12 Dec 2020 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Performances these days have been scaled down significantly in The Netherlands (and most of the world) due to the Coronavirus regulations. We have restricted numbers allowed (including performers) for the concerts, and the audience needs to bo...
11 Dec 2020 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Sigh... a full day of editing amateur singers for a choir production. I'm doing this for the friend of my wife, who conduct a choir and I'm putting together one of the songs after they recorded all the parts individually. It's difficult thing to...
10 Dec 2020 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Another instrument upkeep job that I've been putting off for quite some time... this time, it is for the Viola d'amore. This is a lovely instrument that was made for me about 5 years ago... based upon an original instrument that is housed in a m...
8 Dec 2020 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Due to the Coronavirus regulations in Netherlands, choirs are not able to rehearse in person at the moment... and the concerts are pretty much an impossibility. So, one of the choirs that my wife plays the piano for is doing a video with all the...
1 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
A lively prelude on the hymn tune "Wie nach einem Wasserquelle", cast in the form of a flowing four-part texture with intimations here and there of stricter imitative counterpoint amidst a general tendency toward freer polyphonic dialogue....
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29 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
An ecstatic prelude on the hymn tune "Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag". Flowing sixteenth notes and a pulsing bassline undergird a dramatic rendering of the hymn tune in the uppermost voice. The work concludes with a brief toccata-like pass...
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29 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
A solemn rhapsody on the hymn tune "Das alte Jahr vergangen ist", in which a heavily-ornamented cantus firmus (often strongly suggesting the Phrygian mode) unfolds above a tonally-ambiguous web of chromatic polyphony in the inner voices, w...
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28 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
A jovial prelude on the hymn tune "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan", for manuals alone, in which a falling bassline in sixteenth notes undergirds the ornamented and harmonized cantus firmus. The prelude concludes with a brief virtuosic clima...
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