Tanya LaPerrière, viola d’amore

An exploration in improvisation, electronics, loops, meditation, and capriciousness for the viola d’amore.

Notes on the instrument

A viola d'amore is tuned in D minor and has 14 strings (of which seven are played and the rest are sympathetic). This instrument is from the Tyrol region of modern-day Italy and Austria. It is dated from the baroque period and its maker is unknown. 

Grégoire Jeay, flute d’amour

Mélisande Corriveau, viola da gamba

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Sonata for viola d’amore and basso continuo in G major (excerpts)

Affectuoso - Allegro

Pierre Danican Philidor (1681-1731)

Suite for flute and basso continuo

Prélude - Gigue

Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)

First aria (chaconne) from the cantata Piango gemo sospiro e peno 

Michel Blavet (1700 - 1768)

Adagio in A minor

Karim Nasr, oboe d'amore

Daphne Manavopolous, violin 

Elianna Zimmerman, cello

Esteban La Rotta, lute

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Trio for violin, oboe d'amore and continuo, TWV 42: A9

Vivace - Soave - Vivace

Karl Heinrich Graun (1704 -1759)

Trio for violin, oboe d'amore and continuo WV B XV: 62 

Adagio - Allegro - Largo

George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)

Aria Laschia chio pianga, from the opera Rinaldo