Composer: Robert Valentine
Performer: Tommaso Rossi, Ensemble Barocco di Napoli, Patrizia Varone
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Stradivarius
Catalogue: STR37154
Release: 2021
Size: 1.28 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Flute Sonata in A Major, Op. 12 No. 1
01. I. Adagio
02. II. Allegro
03. III. Andante
04. IV. Allegro
Flute Sonata in D Minor, Op. 12 No. 2
05. I. Adagio
06. II. Allegro
07. III. Adagio, amorosa
08. IV. Allegro
Flute Sonata in G Major, Op. 12 No. 3
09. I. Adagio
10. II. Allegro
11. III. Andante
12. IV. Allegro
Flute Sonata in G Minor, Op. 12 No. 4
13. I. Adagio
14. II. Allegro
15. III. Andante
16. IV. Allegro
Flute Sonata in E Minor, Op. 12 No. 5
17. I. Adagio
18. II. Allegro
19. III. Largo
20. IV. Allegro
Flute Sonata in D Major, Op. 12 No. 6
21. I. Adagio
22. II. Allegro
23. III. Adagio
24. IV. Vivace
25. V. Andante
26. VI. Allegro
Recorder Sonata in G Minor, Op. 3 No. 11
27. I. Adagio
28. II. Corrente. Allegro
29. III. Adagio
30. IV. Giga. Allegro
Recorder Sonata in F Major, Op. 3 No. 12
31. I. Adagio
32. II. Allegro
33. III. Adagio
34. IV. Giga. Allegro
The violinist, cellist, flutist and oboist Robert Valentine (Leicester, 1671 – Rome, 1747) was a prolific author of sonatas – especially for recorder – and an instrumentalist engaged in the musical life of Rome, the city where he moved, in a period between 1693 and 1700, from his native England. Valentine belonged to a group – not very large but quite important for their excellent performative qualities – of virtuosos of wind instruments (oboe and also flute) who in the first half of the eighteenth century moved to Italy, also to make up for some shortage of instrumentalists in this sector, even if recent researches show, especially in Naples, a great vivacity of local schools even for what concerns wind musicians. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, between Rome, Naples and Florence, we discover the presence of at least four foreign instrumentalists: the oboists / flutists Ignatio Rion (active in Venice, Rome and finally in Naples), Ignazio Sieber (Venice), Ludwig Erdmann (Florence) and finally Robert Valentine. The work of this English-born musician greatly fostered the development of flute music in Italy. His work as a composer and performer places him among the most prolific authors of original music for recorder of the period.