London Baroque – The Trio Sonata in 18th-Century Italy (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

London Baroque – The Trio Sonata in 18th-Century Italy (2012)
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Just as the seventeenth century saw the rise of the trio sonata to its position as the most important chamber music form, so the eighteenth century saw its decline and eventual demise. The seventh and penultimate disc in London Baroque’s highly acclaimed survey of the genre through the two centuries lets us sample these later developments in Italy, the nation where the genre had evolved some 100 years earlier. We do so through works by composers who are well-known (Vivaldi), unknown (Bonporti), known for the wrong reasons (Albinoni never composed the famous – or infamous – Adagio) and ignored by mistake (the trio sonata that inspired Stravinsky to compose Pulcinella was by Domenico Gallo and not by Pergolesi, as was long believed). Among our Italians are Locatelli and Tartini, two of the great violinist-composers of the period, as well as a trio largely active in musical centres outside of Italy: Bononcini, Sammartini and Porpora, who taught the young Haydn in Vienna in the 1750’s. Together their compositions come to form a mosaic, where proud traditions from Corelli and earlier (as seen in Vivaldi’s Folia and Albinoni’s dance suite) are gradually superseded by rococo traits.

Tracklist:
Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1750)
Balletto in G major, Op.3 No.3 (1701)
1. Preludio. Largo 1’06
2. Allemanda. Allegro 1’43
3. Corrente. Allegro 1’53
4. Gavotta. Presto 0’38

Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672–1749)
Sonata in G minor, Op.6 No.7 (1705)
5. Adagio 1’50
6. Allemanda. Allegro 1’28
7. Giga. Presto 1’36

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
8. Folia, Op.1 No.12 (1705) 9’13

Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747)
Sonata II from XII Sonatas for the Chamber (1732)
9. Largo – Andante 2’30
10. Lento 1’36
11. Allegro 1’37
12. Menuet I. Non presto – Menuet II. Presto 2’22

Nicola Porpora (1686–1768)
Sonata, Op.2 No.III (London 1736)
13. Adagio sostenuto 2’11
14. Allegro 2’47
15. Adagio 2’19
16. Allegro 3’36

Giuseppe Sammartini (1695–1750)
Sonata V from XII Sonate (Paris 1743)
17. Andante sostenuto 1’52
18. Allegro 2’59
19. Sarabanda. Allegro ma non tanto e grazioso – Allegro – Sarabanda d.c. 4’36

Pietro Locatelli (1695–1764)
Sonata in D major, Op.8 No.8 (1744)
20. Largo andante 2’52
21. Vivace 4’08
22. Cantabile 2’55
23. [Alla Breve] – Adagio 1’49
24. Allegro molto 1’25

Domenico Gallo (c. 1730– ?)
Sonata No.1 in G major (c.1750?)
25. Moderato 1’56
26. Andantino 2’29
27. Presto 1’24

Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770)
Suonata a tre in D minor (undated manuscript)
28. Allegro 2’55
29. Largo andante 3’55
30. Presto 1’55

Personnel:
London Baroque:
Ingrid Seifert violin
Richard Gwilt violin
Charles Medlam cello
Steven Devine harpsichord

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