Phillip W. Serna

New Comma Baroque's Phillip Serna will present a concert of inspiring and thoughtful music written for Viol, a fretted string-instrument popular in Europe from the 15th through 18th centuries. The recital will feature works for the Viol, both old and new, by Carl Friedrich Abel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Martha Bishop, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Le Sieur Dubuisson, Rudolph Dolmetsch, Georg Philipp Telemann and much more

From the First Part of Ayres, the Musicall Humours (1605) Captaine Tobias Hume (1569 - 1645)
Harke, Harke, No.10 https://goo.gl/skXdyO
Captaine Hume’s Pavan, No.4 https://goo.gl/4JM689
Love’s Farewell, No.47 https://goo.gl/hqoaud

Les Pleurs for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (fl.1640-1690) https://youtu.be/31mpHli5P7g

From 27 Pieces for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba, Drexel 5871 Carl Friedrich Abel (1723 - 1787) https://goo.gl/ZcJHud
Allegro, WKO 208
[Allegro], WKO 205

Sonata in G-Major, WKO155 for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba, Drexel 5871 Carl Friedrich Abel https://goo.gl/g3CElO
Adagio
Allegro
Minuet

Le Sieur Dubuisson (d.1681) - Suite VI in e-minor for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba from the Pièces du Viole from Biblioteka Warszawskiego Towarzystwa Muzycznego, Ms. R221
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande

Fantasia No.9 in C-Major, TWV 40:34
for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba (1735) Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767)
Dedicated to Mr. Pierre Chaunell (1703-1789)

Presto
Grave
Allegro

Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) https://youtu.be/FNf1nU8yjMA
Jesus bleibet meine Freude “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” arr. Martha Bishop, 1989

Caprice for Solo Viola da Gamba (1929) Rudolph Dolmetsch (1906 - 1942) https://youtu.be/FoouH-dgvxQ

The Entertainer Scott Joplin (1868-1917) (arr. Serna, 2016)

Serna Suite for 7-String Bass Viol (2009) Martha Bishop (b.1937) https://goo.gl/tYJc25
Prelude
Tango
Sarabande
Jigge

…AND A SPECIAL SURPRISE!