Chaconne by Henry Purcell. The SYO Sinfonietta is playing with Michael Thrift conducting. Live concert in HD with Dolby Stereo Sound.
Sydney Youth Orchestra’s SYO Winter Family Concert on Saturday 19 June 2010 at Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, NSW, Australia.
The Orchestra’s website is http://www.syo.com.au
Henry Purcell (10 September 1659 (?) — 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music.
A chaconne (Italian: ciaccona) is a type of musical composition popular in the baroque era when it was much used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short repetitive bass-line (ground bass) which offered a compositional outline for variation, decoration, figuration and melodic invention. In this it closely resembles the Passacaglia.
The ground bass, if there is one, may typically descend stepwise from the tonic to the dominant pitch of the scale, the harmonies given to the upper parts may emphasize the circle of fifths or a derivative pattern thereof.
A full list of music from the Lunchtime concert is:
SYO Stringin’ Along http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbE7Oek3Ug
Speer, Cable Car Crossing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fap_MQMDs1k
Speer, Aztec Sunrise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIpbGWB7rNQ
Speer, Ear-igami http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0m9zhIzAgY
Camerata, Symphony No. 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNwkzbuQj4c
Camerata, Beethoven http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnhGVROKJEQ
Camerata, Lemon Twist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI1CW6jQFKc
Chamber, Concerto Polonoise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8wrXqx_fag
Chamber, Ghosts of Brandenburg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJRZc14vIKU
Sinfonietta, Chaconne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK2MfR-b2XE
Sinfonietta, Sinfonia in G Adagio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YwyUUEDN3A
Sinfonietta, Sinfonia in G Allegro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2o7ppAc2os
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