Here's what La Folia sounds like filtered through Sergei Rachmaninoff. He called this piece Variations on a Theme of Corelli, even though Corelli didn't write the melody.

In the decade to 1710, around 20 composers tried taming La Folia, from Antonio Vivaldi to Arcangelo Corelli. La Folia on film Perhaps all this has something to do with La Folia’s adaptability.

La Folia: C.P.E. Bach, Corelli, Geminiani, Marais, A. Scarlatti, Vivaldi The Purcell Quartet; Robert Wooley, harpsichord (Hyperion) Beginning in the 17th Century, an anonymous dance tune known as ...

It's based on a tune that Corelli made famous use of, in one of his sonatas, but Corelli didn't come up with it himself. It's a famous folk melody known as "La Folia" (lah foh-LEE-ah).

La Folia is one of the most important anonymous melodies of the 15th & 16th centuries. It has been reported to have variations composed for it by over 400… Continuum: La Folia Revisited | WWNO ...

The Avison Ensemble (violinists Pavlo Beznosiuk and Caroline Balding, archlute player Paula Chateauneuf, cellist Richard Tunnicliffe, harpsichordist Roger Hamilton and soprano Rebecca Bottone ...

When you have an epic acoustic and an imposing organ, you've just got to play something spectacular - here's Filip Pogady and organist Daniel Brondel in Fritz Kreisler's virtuosic arrangement of ...

(ANSA) - BOLOGNA, 25 OTT - Per la rassegna di musica da camera in Sala Mozart, ... Op. 21 N. 1, di Brahms e le Variazioni per pianoforte su un tema di Corelli (La Folia), ...

In the decade to 1710, around 20 composers tried taming La Folia, from Antonio Vivaldi to Arcangelo Corelli. La Folia on film. Perhaps all this has something to do with La Folia’s adaptability.

La Folia is one of the most important anonymous melodies of the 15th & 16th centuries. It has been reported to have variations composed for it by over 400… CONTINUUM: La Folia | WWNO ...