Viola d'Amore and Viennese Violone : duo Sweet 17 from Brussels, Belgium

Duo Sweet 17 from Belgium play Ariosti
Haruko TANABE : Viola d'amore
Korneel Le Compte: Viennese Violone
Live recording.
From La Monnaie, Brussels, Haruko and Korneel bring you music for viola d'amore and double bass/violone by Ariosti, Sperger, Hoffmeister, Vanhal and many other composers.
The only duo of its kind in the world, they wish to share the unique colours these two instruments, both tuned to open chords, are able to produce.
Sit back, relax and enjoy...
Technical information :
Recorded at La Monnaie, Fiocco Hall, August 2011.
Recording Engineer : Geert De Deken, Avinspire
Photographs by Aldegonde Le Compte
Viola d'Amore by Leclerc, Paris 18th Century, metal strings
Bass by Stefan Krattenmacher, Berlin 2006, gut-string Viennese set-up A-D-Fis-A (Not the bass in the pictures - that one is by Hack, 1950's :-)
CD out now !!! For reviews and comments, and to order, please visit our blogspot:
duosweet17.blog...
Haruko and Korneel are also founders of the Ensemble PER QUESTA BELLA MANO, specialised in the classical Viennese repertoire with solo double bass : Sperger, Hoffmeister, Mozart, Pichl, Dittersdorf,...
Thanks for listening.

[@sergiomanzetti1021]

Hmmm, they seem in love....nice.. :)

[@17sweet17be]

Nice indeed... thank you :-)

[@sergiomanzetti1021]

@@17sweet17be All the best!

[@17sweet17be]

@@sergiomanzetti1021 best wishes to you too. Stay safe, enjoy life!

[@belisarioverde2735]

Bello!

[@17sweet17be]

Grazie!

[@triene100]

So beautiful. Can't get enough of it!

[@MsBossio]

Me encanta todo lo que tocan. Maravilloso

[@DoubleBassLive]

I love your work! All best!

[@17sweet17be]

Thank you so much ! There are a number of pieces on our channel, some if them from live concerts. More are coming soon.

[@17sweet17be]

The Hack was converted from 5 to 4 strings because the fingerboard is quite narrow. Perfect for pizz but not for arco. The gut-a-likes are much less brilliant than gut, they have a warm sound but not much gut timbre. Also, they are a lot less loud, and very thick so the bridge and nut slots need widening, and maybe the pegg holes as well. In combination with a cello they provide a nice warm bottom sound but as "stand-alone" bass strings they lack definition. On my D-violone i have Kürschner gut

[@ammasvisvanathan]

absolutely beautiful playing, you two!! i am blown away by the lovely and sweet music that your Violone and the Viola d'Amore made together....heart meltingly beautiful...thanks so much...do you have any concerts of your music uploaded here on TH-cam?

[@MrDschaen]

I am thinking of putting them on my recently acquired d-violone (which I am going to tune in fourths for now) to get some baroque style sound - do they really sound authentic like gut in your opinion? If they do, they are really hard to ignore considering the price! Loving the Hack Bass by the way, is that the one converted from the 5-string?

[@17sweet17be]

Yes :-) I wanted to see how they work with the bow. The brown ones are quite ok. Very warm but not very loud. The wound E is really good though. But all recordings were made with gut strings from Baldock.

[@MrDschaen]

Are those Gut-a-Like's on the Hack Bass?

[@Son-of-the-Mother-Aya]

noice