This is the third movement from the quadruple violin concerto in b minor from L’Estro Armonico of Vivaldi. As in the first movement, I have chosen to use an alto melodica for all parts. The video includes solo violin 1 through 4 clockwise from upper left. The orchestration breaks down like this: Solo: Vln 1, [...]

Arranged and performed by James Howard Young on Alto Melodica, overdubbed in 10 parts. Higher quality MP3 View in HQ on YouTube YouTube Playlist More Videos

I have here chosen to use only one melodica for all 9 parts of Vivaldi’s b minor quadruple violin concerto from L’Estro Armonico. This means that all parts are constrained within 3 octaves. This has no effect on the violin parts, little effect on the viola parts (of which there are 2) and pretty significant [...]

For my second Vivaldi arrangement, I only needed to rewrite a small segment of the solo First Violin part, due to problems transferring the distinctive bowed patterns to a keyboard instrument.  I also encountered 4 high F’s in the Cello part that I needed to cover on the Alto Melodica (my Bass doesn’t go that [...]

This is the first non-Bach video that I have done with multiple melodicas, but since Bach rewrote this piece for organ, it still retains some connection to him. I have chosen to use Vivaldi’s original though, since the writing for two solo violins, two tutti violins, viola, and continuo has more of an ensemble texture [...]