La Folia, a musical cathedral
Paul Gabler
This week I did start a homepage dedicated to the
famous theme La Folia (a. k.a. Follia/Folies d'Espagne
/Farinel's Ground/Theme by Corelli) in an effort to list all
derivations and interpretations.
So far I did encounter 3 versions of Sanz (5 course
guitar/rizzio) a luteversion by Gallot, apart from
the variations for classical guitar by Sor, Carulli and Ponce.
There must be a version by De Fossa played by Alice
Artzt(?) but I do not have a label or year of release.
.
If you have any suggestion for other composers or
performers who have used this theme in their
oeuvre please e-mail me and I will include the
facts in the starting inventory (approx. 40 composers
and 50 recordings).
G. George
I may be mistaken, but I think there is a version by Giuliani,
which Manuel Barrueco has performed. It's on his 300 (or is it
400 or 500) years of Guitar Music disks (one of the best deals
for a classical guitar disk set ever, excuse the hyperbole but in
this case it's justifiable). It's on Vox,
George
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Nikos Kalantzis
>
J.S.Bach:In cantata BWV 211 or BWV 212C.P.E.Bach:twelve variations on
"la folia" Wq161/1 H579
Marin Marais:Folies d' Espagne
Guiliani :Variations sur les folies d' Espagne Op.45
Now,there is a series of discs (about 8 I think ) from HYPERION
(http://www.hyperion-records.com/top.html) which present composers who
have worked with "La Folia" (each disc presents one composer with some
of his works and the Folia variations),and there is also a CD from
Harmonia Mundi (http://harmoniamundi.com/)named "La Folia De La Spagna"
(HMC 901050) where Gregorio Paniagua presents some variations (not his
own).
Yours sincerly,
--
Nikos Kalantzis
http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/squalor/index.htm
In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni
Melissa Bivona
You are correct - Giuliani's version is on Barrueco's "300 Years of
Guitar Masterpieces"
on VoxBox3 CD3X 3007
In addition to the ones mentioned in the original post, variations on
the theme were also composed by Handel and by Robert de Visee, although
I'm not sure where these are available. Frederick Noad's anthology "The
Classical Guitar" has Sor's variations on the theme.
Brian Bivona
G. George wrote:
> I may be mistaken, but I think there is a version by Giuliani,
> which Manuel Barrueco has performed. It's on his 300 (or is it
> 400 or 500) years of Guitar Music disks (one of the best deals
> for a classical guitar disk set ever, excuse the hyperbole but in
> this case it's justifiable). It's on Vox,
> Paul Gabler wrote:
> > This week I did start a homepage dedicated to the
> > famous theme La Folia (a. k.a. Follia/Folies d'Espagne
> > /Farinel's Ground/Theme by Corelli) in an effort to list all
> > derivations and interpretations.
> > So far I did encounter 3 versions of Sanz (5 course
> > guitar/rizzio) a luteversion by Gallot, apart from
> > the variations for classical guitar by Sor, Carulli and Ponce.
> > There must be a version by De Fossa played by Alice
> > Artzt(?) but I do not have a label or year of release.
> > If you have any suggestion for other composers or
Thomas Scharkowski
Here are some additions:
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) Les Folies d'Espagne (Keyboard)
Riccardo Malipiero (b. 1914): Aria Variata su la Follia (Guitar)
(composed in 1979),Editioni Suvini Zerboni 8554
Marin Marais (1656-1728): Les Folies d'Espagne for Viola da Gamba B.c.
Salvador Castro de Gistau: Variations de Las Folias d'Espagne (Guitar)
Antonio Vivaldi: Sonata d-moll 'La Follia' RV 63 (2 Vl&B.c.)
Johann Sebastian Bach used the "Folia" model in his "Peasant Cantata"
"Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet" BWV 212.
--
Thomas Scharkowski
Bochum
Germany
t.scha...@cww.de
stah...@hermes2.econ.uni-hamburg.de
Paul Gabler wrote:
>
> This week I did start a homepage dedicated to the
There is an excellent piece called "Folías" composed by the American
composer Ian Krouse. It can be heard on the CD "Evening in Granada"
(DELOS DE 3144). The 15:34-minutes-piece is composed for and played by
the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. The composer writes (quotation from
booklet):
"The folia was popular in Spain as a sung dance accompanied by guitar
and sonagas - metal disks attached to a wooden ring. The word "folia"
means "mad" or "empty-headed", for the dance was so fast and noisy that
the dancers seemed out of their minds. My version is set in the usual
form of variations, but with two twists. First, the theme itself is not
presented until almost halfway through the piece and - even then - it
is stated in several forms. Second, the variations start out quite long
and gradually become shorter... they continue to accelerate until they
move so fast that each takes only a few beats to complete. The piece
concludes with a festive series of variations based on a form of the
folia which was popular in the late Renaissance."
Booklet-comment (Neil Stannard): "The compositional style of Krouse's
Folías is an eclectic circle. It is described by the composer as a kind
of "time travel", beginning with improvisatory, neo-minimalist
murmurings reminiscent of flamenco style. The music develops backward
in time, stylistically, to a statement of the theme in Baroque style,
then back further to neo-Renaissance style, and finally comes full
circle back to the present. One hears the theme emerging gradually
until its full statement at the gravitational center of the piece,
designated by the composer "Follia after Corelli" [at 8:25]. Shortly
thereafter [at 10:31] the theme is stated in minor, this time quoting
the "Folias of Sanz". As the variations draw to a close, the score
indicates that the players should, each in turn, leave the stage, in an
elaborate visual, as well as aural, diminuendo."
The other tracks of the CD:
Luigi Boccherini: Introduction and Fandango
Manuel de Falla: El amor brujo
Claude Debussy: La soirée dans Grenade (Evening in Granada)
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
This CD and all the other LAGQ-CDs are fantastic!
--
Robert Stahlbock
Hamburg
Germany
Paul Gabler
>J.S.Bach:In cantata BWV 211 or BWV 212
Yes Bauernkantate
C.P.E.Bach:twelve variations on
>"la folia" Wq161/1 H579
Yes already in the list
>Marin Marais:Folies d' Espagne
Yep!
>Guiliani :Variations sur les folies d' Espagne Op.45
Yep!
>Now,there is a series of discs (about 8 I think ) from HYPERION
>(http://www.hyperion-records.com/top.html) which present composers who
>have worked with "La Folia" (each disc presents one composer with some
>of his works and the Folia variations),and there is also a CD from
>Harmonia Mundi (http://harmoniamundi.com/)named "La Folia De La Spagna"
>(HMC 901050) where Gregorio Paniagua presents some variations (not his
>own).
Yep!
I did have listed them all but thanks anyway for the effort. I'm close
to 50 composers (43 to be exactly) and I have to give a musical party
when the 50th is reached I suppose?
Anybody heard of the variations by Francois le Cocq? Should be
for guitar because someone dit attend a concert where a few of
his 84! variations were played.
Paul Gab...@xs4all.nl