La Gamba

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Album Summary

Performer

• Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)

Ensemble

• Ballo Della Battalia

Composers

• Marin Marais (1656 - 1728)
• Diego Ortiz (1510 - circa 1570)
• Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (1699 - 1782)
• Christopher Simpson (Baroque Composer) (1605 - 1669)

Notes & Reviews:

Viola da gamba player Mika Suihkonen trained as a cellist. He founded the early music ensemble Battalia with a group of high school friends and this is still his main musical forum. He plays this program on a viola da gamba built by Guy Derat in 1990.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009).

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Works Details

Ortiz, Diego : Recercada no 1 (Trattado de glosas)

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval
• Written: by 1553

Ortiz, Diego : Recercada no 2

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 1 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval

Simpson, Christopher : Prelude in D (The Division-Viol, 1665)

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 1 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Simpson, Christopher : Ground in D major

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 4 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Simpson, Christopher : Prelude in A minor

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Period Time: Baroque

Simpson, Christopher : Ground in A minor

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Ortiz, Diego : Trattado de glosas

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval

Ortiz, Diego : Recercada No 8

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval
• Written: by 1553

Marais, Marin : Couplets de folies (Les folies d'Espagne), for viola da gamba & continuo in D minor (Pièces de viole

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 18 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Ortiz, Diego : Recercada No 5

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval

Simpson, Christopher : Prelude in G minor

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 1 min. sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Simpson, Christopher : Ground in G major

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Simpson, Christopher : Prelude [in E] (The Dicision-Viol, 1665)

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 1 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Simpson, Christopher : Ground in E minor

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 6 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Ortiz, Diego : Ruggiero (Quinta pars IX)

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval

Ortiz, Diego : Recercada no 3 (in Trattato de Glosas)

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval

Forqueray, Jean-Baptiste : Chaconne La Morangis ou la Plissay (from Pièces de viole, Troisième Divertissement)

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 7 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Ortiz, Diego : Recercada no 7

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 1 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval

Ortiz, Diego : Recercada No 6

• Performer: Mika Suihkonen (Bass Viola da gamba)
• Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia
• Notes: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)
• Running Time: 1 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval