Arto Wikla's music examples

Here are my solo pieces from two CD's by a Finnish ensemble Köyhät Ritarit (=Poor Knights). In the first CD, apart these solos, I only accompany recorder in three little pieces. In the second I play continuo nearly in all of the songs, too. But as said, here are only my solo pieces from those two recordings.

The wma-files are made by the Windows Media Player. And the mp3's are made from the wma's; so the mp3's cannot be better than the wma's...

• track 10: Adrian Le Roy: Passemeze I & II (wma-file, 1.4 MB) (mp3-file, 1.7 MB)
• track 11: Adrian Le Roy: Passe velours (wma-file, 0.71 MB) (mp3-file, 0.86 MB)
• track 12: Adrian Le Roy: La Souris (wma-file, 0.69 MB) (mp3-file, 0.83 MB)
• track 13: Adrian Le Roy: Branle de Poictou (wma-file, 0.88 MB) (mp3-file, 1.1 MB)

• track 14: Robert Ballard: Entree de luth (wma-file, 1.4 MB) (mp3-file, 1.7 MB)
• track 15: Robert Ballard: Courante (wma-file, 1.9 MB) (mp3-file, 2.4 MB)
• track 16: Robert Ballard: Branles de village I & II (wma-file, 1.8 MB) (mp3-file, 2.2 MB)

You'll find these pieces by Ballard and Le Roy also in YouTube and Vimeo! See my page Music videos.

My solo pieces from the Köyhät Ritarit (Poor Knights) CD "Adriano Banchieri Bolognese: 'Festino nella sera del Giovedi Grasso avanti Cena' / 'Barca di Venetia per Padova'", FUGA-9153, 2002.

• These pieces are from the "Festino" played by renaissance guitar, chitarrino, made by Eero Palviainen 1993. Actually the "Festino" was recorded already in 1996.
  • track 1: [overture] Mauritio Cazzati: Balletto sesto (arr. A. Wikla) (wma-file, 1.0 MB) (mp3-file, 1.2 MB) (my arrangement as a "facsimile", pdf-file, 0.13 MB)
    This piece started the whole madrigal comedy - it kind of "opened the curtain". The following song was a lively one.
  • track 5: [interlude] Gasparo Zannetti: La Mantovana (arr. A. Wikla) (wma-file, 1.1 MB) (mp3-file, 1.4 MB) (my arrangement as a "facsimile", pdf-file, 0.11 MB)
    This interlude comes after a very sweet song - that is why it is so very slow. In this point I did not want to change the mood.
  • track 9: [interlude] Gregoire Brayssing: Fantasie (wma-file, 0.9 MB) (mp3-file, 1.1 MB) (the facsimile pdf-file, 0.15 MB)
    The Fantasie came after a Falala-song. Here I accidentally wanted to go from wildness to calmness. And the next song was a "dirty" one. So Brayssing was meant to emphasize those two pieces, it was "calm between the storms"...
  • track 12: [interlude] Gasparo Zannetti: La Bella Pedrina (arr. A. Wikla) (wma-file, 0.9 MB) (mp3-file, 1.1 MB) (my arrangement as a "facsimile", pdf-file, 0.09 MB)
    La Bella Pedrina was a fast change of mood from a very sentimental song to a lively drinking song. The "drinking started" already with this piece of Zannetti.

  • You'll find these chitarrino pieces also in YouTube and Vimeo! See my page Music videos.

• These pieces are from the "Barca" played by archlute made by Stephen Barber 1987.
  • track 14: [overture] Anon: Corrente (Doni ms.) (wma-file, 1.6 MB) (mp3-file, 2.0 MB)
    This Corrente opened the comedy. I started playing it alone on the stage, and during the piece the singers/actors walked in one by one. Then they started to prepare for they journey from Venezia to Padova.
  • track 23: [interlude] A. Wikla: Passagaglia improvisation (wma-file, 0.9 MB) (mp3-file, 1.2 MB)
    This short improvisation only precedes a very, very sentimental and beautiful song in the same key.

  • One of our Barca di Venetia per Padova gigs is also in the Google Video!

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