Carolo, by Space Time Continuo

Carolo

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1.	Sonata IX: 1. Poco Largo (arr. Amanda Keesmaat) 01:05	buy track
2.	Sonata IX: 2. Solo 01:09	buy track
3.	Sonata IX: 3. Allegro 00:48	buy track
4.	Sonata IX: 4. Adagio 00:28	buy track
5.	Sonata IX: 5. Canzona 01:07	buy track
6.	Sonata IX: 6. Allegro (arr. Amanda Keesmaat) 01:32	buy track
7.	Sonata VII: 1. Poco Largo 01:10	buy track
8.	Sonata VII: 2. Poco Allegro 01:05	buy track
9.	Sonata VII: 3. Adagio 00:52	buy track
10.	Sonata VII: 4. Canzona 00:52	buy track
11.	Sonata VII: 5. Allegro 00:48	buy track
12.	Sonata VI: 1. Largo 01:49	buy track
13.	Sonata VI: 2. Poco Allegro 01:03	buy track
14.	Sonata VI: 3. Adagio 00:50	buy track
15.	Sonata VI: 4. Canzona 01:29	buy track
16.	Sonata VI: 5. Allegro (arr. Amanda Keesmaat) 00:52	buy track
17.	Sonata III: 1. Poco Allegro (arr. Amanda Keesmaat) 01:37	buy track
18.	Sonata III: 2. Adagio (arr. Amanda Keesmaat) 00:46	buy track
19.	Sonata III: 3. Poco Allegro (arr. Amanda Keesmaat) 02:12	buy track
20.	Sonata III: 4. Canzona (arr. Amanda Keesmaat) 00:58	buy track
21.	Sonata III: 5. Allegro (arr. Amanda Keesmaat) 00:42	buy track
22.	Sonata II: 1. (Poco Largo) 01:06	buy track
23.	Sonata II: 2. Poco Allegro 00:44	buy track
24.	Sonata II: 3. Canzona 00:56	buy track
25.	Sonata II: 4. Adagio 00:54	buy track
26.	Sonata II: 5. Allegro 00:39	buy track
27.	Sonata IV: 1. Poco Largo 02:40	buy track
28.	Sonata IV: 2. Poco Allegro 00:36	buy track
29.	Sonata IV: 3. Adagio 01:10	buy track
30.	Sonata IV: 4. Allegro 01:28	buy track
31.	Sonata V: 1. Poco Allegro 00:55	buy track
32.	Sonata V: 2. Adagio 00:52	buy track
33.	Sonata V: 3. Canzona 01:13	buy track
34.	Sonata V: 4. Allegro 00:52	buy track
35.	Sonata VIII: 1. Poco Largo 01:16	buy track
36.	Sonata VIII: 2. Poco Allegro 00:43	buy track
37.	Sonata VIII: 3. Adagio 00:55	buy track
38.	Sonata VIII: 4. Canzona 00:47	buy track
39.	Sonata VIII: 5. Allegro 01:41	buy track
40.	Sonata I: 1. Poco Largo 01:26	buy track
41.	Sonata I: 2. (Allegro) 01:08	buy track
42.	Sonata I: 3. Canzona 01:21	buy track
43.	Sonata I: 4. Allegro 00:57	buy track
44.	Sonata X: 1. Poco Allegro 00:57	buy track
45.	Sonata X: 2. Allegro 00:50	buy track
46.	Sonata X: 3. Adagio 00:47	buy track
47.	Sonata X: 4. Canzona 01:20	buy track
48.	Sonata X: 5. Allegro 00:23	buy track

about

Like many artists, Space Time Continuo endeavoured to continue projects throughout the pandemic of 2020-21. For this recording, there were several challenges which led us to diverge from the way that we usually make classical recordings. This recording was made playing together, but into separate microphones, with large spaces between us following the health guidelines of Oscar Peterson Hall at Concordia University. Placing microphones close to the instruments allows us to isolate each player’s sound and brings certain flexibility in editing and sound control, but close miking produces a dryer sound for the bowed instruments and more intimate pick-up, meaning you can hear every breath, slap and crunch. It sounds more like what we actually hear when we are playing close to each other in concert.

It is exciting to present the ten Carolo sonatas in their first ever recording! I love the short final Allegros in the sonatas which lend themselves to improvisation and fun ornamentation as the two solo voices ricochet off each other. The singing canzonas invoke for me earlier legato polyphonic song and Italian style. Although the Carolo sonatas were written for smaller ensembles, the original edition served as a blank canvas to
fulfill Space Time Continuo’s mandate to feature the rich textures and wide soundscape possible in the continuo section. Sonatas XI, III, V and X were conceived with augmented forces and sonatas XI and III are actually new arrangements for 3 solo bass instruments and continuo. Sonata VI is performed with two bassoons, harpsichord and bowed bass (5-string low-pitched bass violin) but the other five are closer to what was suggested by the original publisher’s title page: “two solo bass instruments plus one continuo,” but with variation in the instrumentation of the solo voices and keyboard choice.

I relied on so many cherished performer colleagues to bring their individual expertise and sound to this project and I am very grateful for all of their talent and comradery. The partnership with Mark Corwin and Concordia University was invaluable.

We acknowledge support from

FACTOR
The Fund Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings
With Support From Canada's Private Radio Broadcasters

and from

Canada Council For The Arts

whose funding made this recording possible.

credits

released January 28, 2022

Amanda Keesmaat
cello, basse de violon à 5 cordes, director

Andrea Stewart
cello, viola da gamba

Antoine Malette-Chénier
triple harp

Christophe Gauthier
organ, harpsichord

Dorothéa Ventura
organ, harpsichord

Elinor Frey
viola da gamba

François Viault
bassoon

Karim Nasr
bassoon

Margaret Little
viola da gamba

Mathieu Lussier
bassoon

Sylvain Bergeron
archlute

Mark Corwin
recording, editing, sound design

Jeremy VanSlyke, Patrick Wu, Ben Barton Creelman
mastering

Jacques-André Houle
copy, translation

Zayne Dagher
graphic design

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Space Time Continuo Montreal, Québec

Space Time Continuo is really into finding, creating, performing, and recording music for baroque bass instruments.
Amanda Keesmaat lives and plays in Montréal.

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