Thank you so much for this! I love the early Baroque almost more than the 18th Century period because it was winding down & opera & composing simpler melodies & abandoning contrapuntal complexities were disappearing, Bach excepted. I dream of writing like this: I can improvise at the keyboard but I wish to write down what I hear in my head almost everyday of my life. But does it matter since no one will ever hear it & I have no venue. You are all most fortunate to be performing & loving what you do!
There is a rumour floating about that the gent started out here in the East Midlands. Born as John Ballantyne. From an English surname, it is a not a huge step to becoming Italianised, so to speak. Which is well what may have been the case. Having made little headway here, he travelled south as far as Italy to make himself better known. Part of the process would be to abandon his English connections and hey presto you now have Giovanni Valentini. Something similar happened to William Brade, only in that instance he didn't try to alter his identity in any way. He must have enjoyed working in Germany but liked to stay on the move. I have some music by Valentini here but not that much can be gleaned about him as yet.
Thank you so much for this! I love the early Baroque almost more than the 18th Century period because it was winding down & opera & composing simpler melodies & abandoning contrapuntal complexities were disappearing, Bach excepted. I dream of writing like this: I can improvise at the keyboard but I wish to write down what I hear in my head almost everyday of my life. But does it matter since no one will ever hear it & I have no venue. You are all most fortunate to be performing & loving what you do!
Make the thing, worry about selling it later.
Hope you wrote some of it.
Fantastic and mind bending!
Fantastic discovery! A great ensemble and performance! As mentioned below: Progressive barock!!!
Not only is this piece wild (in the best possible way), but the performers are wonderful, with excellent intonation.
Those chords are SOOO far in the future from where is !
Mind-blowing! Progressive barock ;-)
Armen Erdevelyan I had that exact thought. I was totally mind-blown!!! Progressive "barock" indeed.
Amen, Armen.
Has anyone recorded his madrigal "Con guardo altero," the verses of which are supposed to be in 5/4 meter?
Excellent!
Beautiful
Wonderful music.
Love it!!! Thx for sharing this!
sehr schön
Glorious musical mannerism
Belissimo ♡
well played Kivie! (and others)
It is in “Cello & Drum”
Shades of Biber and Schmelzer in the background.?
It sounds like a crossover between Muffat and a dash of Henry Purcell.
Kapsberger with a side of Fries
There is a rumour floating about that the gent started out here in the East Midlands. Born as John Ballantyne. From an English surname, it is a not a huge step to becoming Italianised, so to speak. Which is well what may have been the case. Having made little headway here, he travelled south as far as Italy to make himself better known. Part of the process would be to abandon his English connections and hey presto you now have Giovanni Valentini.
Something similar happened to William Brade, only in that instance he didn't try to alter his identity in any way. He must have enjoyed working in Germany but liked to stay on the move.
I have some music by Valentini here but not that much can be gleaned about him as yet.
And by "rumour floating about" you mean you made that up yourself? There is absolutely no mention of this anywhere on the web except for your comment.
there's a rumor too, about Shakespeare being italian: Guglielmo Crollalanza - there are ltos of rumors... :)