Composer: Tomaso Albinoni, Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Bononcini, Nicola Porpora, Giuseppe Sammartini, Pietro Locatelli, Domenico Gallo, Giuseppe Tartini
Performer: London Baroque
Format: FLA C(tracks)
Label: BIS
Release: 2013
Size: 1.55 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Tomaso Albinoni:
Balletto in G major, Op.3 No.3
01. Preludio. Largo
02. Allemanda. Allegro
03. Corrente. Allegro
04. Gavotta. Presto
Francesco Antonio Bonporti:
Sonata in G minor, Op.6 No.7
05. Adagio
06. Allemanda. Allegro
07. Giga. Presto
Antonio Vivaldi:
08. Folia, Op.1 No.12
Giovanni Bononcini:
Sonata II from XII Sonatas for the Chamber
09. Largo – Andante
10. Lento
11. Allegro
12. Menuet I. Non presto – Menuet II. Presto
Nicola Porpora:
Sonata, Op.2 No.III
13. Adagio sostenuto
14. Allegro
15. Adagio
16. Allegro
Giuseppe Sammartini:
Sonata V from XII Sonate
17. Andante sostenuto
18. Allegro
19. Sarabanda. Allegro ma non tanto e grazioso – Allegro – Sarabanda d.c.
Pietro Locatelli:
Sonata in D major, Op.8 No.8
20. Largo andante
21. Vivace
22. Cantabile
23. [Alla Breve] – Adagio
24. Allegro molto
Domenico Gallo:
Sonata No.1 in G major
25. Moderato
26. Andantino
27. Presto
Giuseppe Tartini:
Suonata a tre in D minor (undated manuscript)
28. Allegro
29. Largo andante
30. Presto
London Baroque:
Ingrid Seifert, violin
Richard Gwilt, violin
Charles Medlam, cello
Steven Devine, harpsichord
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