Post by ChrisB on Apr 23, 2018 20:19:25 GMT
Francesca Caccini: La Cecchina (Arr. for Guitar)
- Noël Akchoté
I recently came across this sort of accidentally. I'll explain:
My folks host a monthly musical appreciation evening among a group of local (to them) music lovers. Each member chooses a programme of works for the evening and they all listen together and discuss it afterwards. A while back, it was my mother's turn and she chose a selection of work by female composers and there was a piece by Francesca Caccini called 'Ciaccona', which she later played to me. It struck me as being unusually modern sounding for something written by someone born in 1587. I thought it was quite unusual for a woman of that time to be composing music and it was interesting to read how this came to be - her father was Giulio Romolo Caccini, who was a teacher, singer, instrumentalist and composer of Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of opera, and highly influential in the creation of the Baroque style.
This is it:
Francesca Caccini - Ciaccona
I played quite a bit of her other works and struggled to find something else that I liked as much as this because I really struggle with sung classical music, something which she did quite a bit of. However, I then found the recording which I have chosen as the subject of this thread and it is far more to my taste.
So here it is, some works by Francesca Caccini arranged for solo classical guitar and played by Noël Akchoté.
Wiki pages for:
Francesca Caccini
Giulio Caccini
- Noël Akchoté
I recently came across this sort of accidentally. I'll explain:
My folks host a monthly musical appreciation evening among a group of local (to them) music lovers. Each member chooses a programme of works for the evening and they all listen together and discuss it afterwards. A while back, it was my mother's turn and she chose a selection of work by female composers and there was a piece by Francesca Caccini called 'Ciaccona', which she later played to me. It struck me as being unusually modern sounding for something written by someone born in 1587. I thought it was quite unusual for a woman of that time to be composing music and it was interesting to read how this came to be - her father was Giulio Romolo Caccini, who was a teacher, singer, instrumentalist and composer of Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of opera, and highly influential in the creation of the Baroque style.
This is it:
Francesca Caccini - Ciaccona
I played quite a bit of her other works and struggled to find something else that I liked as much as this because I really struggle with sung classical music, something which she did quite a bit of. However, I then found the recording which I have chosen as the subject of this thread and it is far more to my taste.
So here it is, some works by Francesca Caccini arranged for solo classical guitar and played by Noël Akchoté.
Wiki pages for:
Francesca Caccini
Giulio Caccini
