Composer: Nicola Francesco Haym, Arcangelo Corelli
Performer: Rebeca Ferri, Marco Vitale, Romeo Ciuffa, Cappella Musicale Enrico Stuart
Conductor: Chiara Strabioli
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Brilliant Classics
Catalogue: 96167
Release: 2022
Size: 1.16 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Sonata da camera No. 1 in C Minor, H 4920
01. I. Largo
02. II. Vivace
03. III. Adagio
04. IV. Allegro
Sonata a tre No. 6 in G Minor, Op. 2
05. I. Adagio
06. II. Allegro
07. III. Grave
08. IV. Allegro
Sonata da camera No. 2 in D Minor, H 4920
09. I. Adagio
10. II. Allegro
11. III. Adagio
12. IV. Allegro
Sonata a tre No. 7 in C Major, Op. 2
13. I. Adagio
14. II. Allemanda Allegro
15. III. Adagio
16. IV. Gavotta
Sonata da camera No. 3 in C Minor, H 4920
17. I. Adagio
18. II. Allegro – Adagio
19. III. Allegro
Sonata a tre No. 8 in F Major, Op. 2
20. I. Adagio
21. II. Allemanda Allegro
22. III. Adagio
23. IV. Giga Allegro
24. V. Gavotta
Sonata da camera No. 4 in A Minor, H 4920
25. I. Largo
26. II. Allegro
27. III. Largo
28. IV. Allegro
Sonata a tre No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 2:
29. I. Adagio
30. II. Allemanda Allegro
31. III. Adagio
32. IV. Giga Allegro
Sonata a tre No. 12 in G Major, Op. 2:
33. I. Partite di Ciaccona
Sonata No. 3 in D Major
34. I. Adagio
35. II. Allegro
36. III. Adagio
37. IV. Allegro
38. V. Allegro
Sonata da camera No. 12 in G Major, H 4920
39. I. Ciaccona. Largo – Allegro
Born in Rome in 1678 to a family of German extraction, Nicola Francesco Haym was employed (from 1694 to 1700) as a violone and cello player by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni in the orchestra led by Arcangelo Corelli. In the final years of this period the 2nd Duke of Bedford (Wriothesley Russell, 1680-1711) visited Rome and invited the violinist Nicola Cosimi to follow his entourage back to London. Cosimi in turn invited Haym to come with him as continuo cellist.
Haym therefore moved to London in 1701 and would serve as the Duke of Bedford’s ‘master of chamber music’ until the patron’s death in 1711. A significant number of Haym’s compositions were produced during this first period in his life, among them diverse instrumental music for concerts at the ducal residences. That Haym’s Sonatas for transverse flute (traverso) and basso continuo are the first ever known to be published by an Italian author inspired this recording and its exploration of the early-18th-century Italian flute repertoire. With their strong Corellian influence, Haym’s Sonate a Tre, Op. 2 and his works in the
6 Sonate da camera a flauto traversa, haubois o violino solo can be securely ascribed to the Italian – specifically the Roman – musical scene, despite the composer’s living in London and the music’s publication in Amsterdam.
This recording presents all of Haym’s surviving instrumental works assigned specifically to be played on the flute. His Opus 2 Nos. 6-9 are for two violins or flauti (recorders) and continuo, and No. 12 is specifically for two flauti and continuo. Of the 6 Sonate da Camera only the first four are by Haym. Since early-18th-century Italian repertoire for flute is inextricably tied up with that of the violin and its Corellian model, this recording also features an adaptation for flute of a Corelli violin sonata and a direct borrowing from the violin repertoire with extemporaneous adjustments by the performers in Corelli’s “Ciaccona”.