New Video: Ricercar by Da Milano

Here is a Ricercar by Francesco Da Milano that I’ve been working on for a while and I think this is about as good as it's gonna get for me right now. Gotta move on to other pieces. I posted a video a while ago of it and decided to make a new one yesterday with better quality. I find it really difficult not to rush this piece. About half-way through it starts getting kinda meandering and it's hard to make things sound legato and not too heavy or plodding. The inner voices are also very cool and syncopated, but hard to bring out without having weird accents all over the place.

There are a few different manuscript sources of this one. This is from the Ness edition, which is basically the same as in the "Siena Lute Book" in the Hague. I'm not sure if it's just because I'm used to it at this point, but I like this one the best as it seems slightly more concise. I've notated it in standard notation and tracked down a few nice scans of the different sources. Here is a PDF of it for anyone that feels inclined to play it ;).

The guitar is a 2019 Spruce/Indian rosewood Modern Concert model Recorded with 2 Line Audio CM4 mics into a Zoom H5 and No EQ.