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Stravaganze Napoletane - Music for baroque ensemble

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Catalogue numberBIS-1395 CD
Release date2004-08-28
Discs1
Orig. sample rate44100Hz
Total time58:53

Le Monde de la Musique: Choc du Mois.

The focus of this release – the first meeting on disc of one of the leading recorder virtuosos of the day and one of the most highly respected baroque ensembles – is on a mysterious manuscript, dated 1725, in the library of the Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Maiella in Naples. Mysterious in so far that we do not know why these works were gathered together – at what would have been a substantial cost for the copying of them – especially in an environment like Naples at the time, where all the rage was for vocal music: opera, cantatas and oratorios.
The manuscript comprises 24 sonatas for recorder and strings – works which up to now have often been referred to and published as ‘concertos’.
Many of the composers represented had direct links with the institutions that would later become San Pietro, either as pupils (Sarri, Mancini, Barbella) or as maestri di cappella (Scarlatti). As an ‘in-house’ production, the manuscript testifies to the extraordinary talents that lived and worked in Naples at that time. Dan Laurin and London Baroque have chosen four of these ’sonatas’ or ’chamber concertos’ for inclusion on the present disc – works which are in many ways as different from each other as were the individual composers. As Laurin puts it in his liner notes: ’Scarlatti is noble, Mancini dramatic, Barbella creates difficulties for himself and Sarri does not even attempt to follow all the rules and strictures!’
Common to the sonatas is the fact that the recorder part is technically not very complicated and frequently takes the rôle of a member of the ensemble rather than that of soloist. These works are complemented by four other examples of the chamber music of the period – with and without recorder – in which these musicians exploit every finesse and nuance – an extravagant, not to say unmissable, opportunity!
 
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Extra material for download
 
 
  Composer: Mancini, Francesco
  Sonata XII in G minor 08:48
01 I. Largo 02:26 $ 0.51 USD
02 II. Fuga 02:48 $ 0.59 USD
03 III. Largo 02:14 $ 0.47 USD
04 IV. Spiritoso 01:20 $ 0.28 USD
 
 
  Composer: Mancini, Francesco
  Sonata II in E minor 07:22
05 I. Andante 01:29 $ 0.31 USD
06 II. Allegro 02:19 $ 0.49 USD
07 III. Largo 02:00 $ 0.42 USD
08 IV. Allegro 01:34 $ 0.33 USD
 
 
  Composer: Corelli, Arcangelo
09 Fuga con un soggetto solo in D minor for 2 violins, viola
and violoncello
02:33 $ 0.54 USD
 
 
  Composer: Sarri, Domenico
  Sonata XI in A minor 08:44
10 1. Largo 01:37 $ 0.34 USD
11 II. Allegro 03:33 $ 0.75 USD
12 III. Larghetto 01:58 $ 0.41 USD
13 IV. Spiritoso 01:36 $ 0.34 USD
 
 
  Composer: Scarlatti, Alessandro
  Sonata IX in A minor 09:06
14 I. Allegro 01:44 $ 0.36 USD
15 II. Largo 01:32 $ 0.32 USD
16 III. Fuga 02:16 $ 0.48 USD
17 IV. Largo 01:46 $ 0.37 USD
18 V. Allegro 01:48 $ 0.38 USD
 
 
  Composer: Barbella, Francesco
  Sonata III in C major 08:57
19 I. Amoroso 03:12 $ 0.67 USD
20 II. Allegro 02:46 $ 0.58 USD
21 III. Adagio 01:10 $ 0.25 USD
22 IV. Allegro 01:49 $ 0.38 USD
 
 
  Composer: Gallo, Domenico
  Trio Sonata No.1 in G major for 2 violins and b.c. 05:47
23 I. 02:35 $ 0.54 USD
24 II. 01:45 $ 0.37 USD
25 III. 01:27 $ 0.30 USD
 
 
  Composer: Ravenscroft, John
  Sonata Ottava for 2 violins and b.c. 05:38
26 I. Largo 01:21 $ 0.28 USD
27 II. Allegro 01:23 $ 0.29 USD
28 III. Grave 01:35 $ 0.33 USD
29 IV. Allegro 01:19 $ 0.28 USD
 
  Album total 58:53
ComposerBarbella, Francesco
Corelli, Arcangelo
Gallo, Domenico
Mancini, Francesco
Ravenscroft, John
Sarri, Domenico
Scarlatti, Alessandro
RecorderLaurin, Dan
EnsembleLondon Baroque

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