Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1749), Adagio from Concerto for Strings & Cembalo, RV 109, arranged for two bass viols and organ by Daniel Rippe, viola da gamba. Sheet music available at RipMeister.com I became enamored with this gorgeous adagio years ago and decided to arrange it for my instrument. The music is full of suspensions with rubbing dissonances, anticipated resolutions, and some unexpected harmonic changes. I doubled the length of Vivaldi’s original music by melding the final bar with a “turn-around” to the beginning notes, thus creating a repeat of the music, adding my own ornaments and passage work between distant pitches. For making the video, I liked the contrast of beautiful music with the stark, grungy background of the underground basement garage in the vintage building where I live. I apologies for the flickering light down there. The acoustics are good but my shoes got filthy! Bass viol by Michael Schreiner, Toronto, Canada, 1978, modeled after Pierray, Paris, 1713. Organ samples are from the Jeux D’Orgues 1.4 sound font, a project “aimed at creating pipe organ sample sets, recorded on historic organs located in the Alsace region of France.” I have used the Jeux Gedackt 8’, and Rohrflöte 8’ stops. © 2021 RipMeister Publications