COUNTING THE HOURS <br />JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations and other music of nighttime <br />INCANTATI <br />Petra Samhaber-Eckhardt, violin, Rachel Stott, viola d’amore, <br />Ibrahim Aziz, viola da gamba <br />with SATOKO DOI-LUCK, harpsichord, and DANIEL GILCHRIST, narrator <br /><br />Goldberg Aria harpsichord <br />Variation 1 TRIO <br />Variation 2 harpsichord & TRIO <br />Variation 3 (canon) TRIO <br />Variation 4 harpsichord <br />Variation 5 harpsichord <br />Variation 6 (canon) TRIO <br />Variation 7 violin & viola da gamba <br />The Clock (Osbert Parsley 1510—1585) TRIO, harpsichord & voice <br />Variation 8 harpsichord <br />Variation 9 (canon) TRIO <br />Puzzle Canon (John Dunstable 1390—1453) TRIO & voice <br />Variation 10 harpsichord <br />Variation 11 harpsichord <br />Variation 12 (canon) TRIO <br />Puzzle Canon (Anonymous) TRIO & voice <br />Variation 13 TRIO <br />Variation 14 harpsichord <br />Variation 15 (canon) TRIO <br />Ma Fin est mon Commencement <br />(Guillaume de Machaut 1300—1377) TRIO & voice <br />Variation 16 harpsichord & TRIO <br />Variation 17 harpsichord <br /> <br />Dappoi che’il sole Niccolò da Perugia (14th century) TRIO & voice <br />Variation 18 (canon) TRIO <br />Variation 19 harpsichord &TRIO <br />Variation 20 harpsichord <br />Variation 21 (canon) TRIO <br />The Little Owl Leos Janacek (1854—1928) TRIO <br />Variation 22 harpsichord <br />Variation 23 harpsichord <br />Variation 24 (canon) TRIO <br />Variation 25 TRIO <br />Variation 26 harpsichord <br />Variation 27 (canon) violin & viola da gamba <br />Variation 28 harpsichord <br />Variation 29 harpsichord <br />So Unutterably Anxious Leos Janacek & J.S.Bach TRIO & harpsichord <br />Good Night! Leos Janacek TRIO & voice <br />Quodlibet TRIO & harpsichord & voice <br />Aria TRIO & harpsichord & voice <br /><br />Every third Variation of the Goldberg Variations is a canon, except the final one, which is a quodlibet, a piece which combines several already existing tunes. This suggested the idea of creating poetic quodlibets to accompany two of the instrumental pieces. The quodlibets have been created from lines of poems by Walter de la Mare, Edward Thomas, James Thomson, Percy Bysshe Shelley and W.B.Yeats. <br />The poem heard during Variation 9 is Invocation to Sleep by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea. <br /><br />
