Videos

Limosna

"Una Limosna por el Amor de Dios" is one of the last works of the Paraguayan composer Agustin Barrios "Mangoré" and was written shortly before his death in El Salvador in 1944. The video was shot in an abandoned underground parking lot in Düsseldorf, Germany on a cold winter day.

Equinox

Equinox is one of Takemitsu’s late works and was composed in 1993. It is inspired by a picture of the same name by Spanish painter Joan Miró. Equinox is an astronomical event that occurs twice each year when daytime and nighttime are of approximately equal duration all over the planet.

Ciaccona

Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638):

Ciaccona in partite variate

from Intavolatura di liuto et di chitarrone, libro primo (Bologna, 1623)

Si dolce 'l tormento

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643): Si dolce è'l tormento

Mezzo-soprano: Paulina Schulenburg

Passacaglia

Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger (1580-1651): Passacaglia from Libro quarto d'intavolatura (Roma, 1640)

Tasteggio soave

Named after the mythological rider of Pegasos and the slayer of the Chimera, Bellerofonte Castaldi (1580-1649) lived a dazzling life as an adventurer, poet and musician in the early Seicento. In his Capricci (1622) he also claims to be the inventor of the tiorbino, a smaller, shorter-scaled theorbo for which this Tasteggio was composed.

Toccata Arpeggiata

Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger (1580-1651):

Toccata Arpeggiata from Libro primo d'intavolatura (Venezia, 1604)

Piccinini: Toccata

Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638): Toccata XIII