Composer: Giacomo Facco
Performer: Manuel Zogbi
Orchestra: Mexican Baroque Orchestra
Conductor: Miguel Lawrence
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0202
Release: 2013
Size: 290 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Pensieri adriarmonici, o vero Concerti a 5, Op. 1, No. 1
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Allegro
Concerto à 5 in B-Flat Major, Op. 1, No. 2
04. I. Allegro assai
05. II. Grave staccato
06. III. Allegro assai
Concerto à 5 in E Major, Op. 1, No. 3
07. I. Allegro assai
08. I. Adagio
09. III. Allegro assai
Concerto à 5 in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 4
10. I. Allegro
11. II. Grave
12. III. Allegro
Pensieri adriarmonici, o vero Concerti a 5, Op. 1, No. 5
13. I. Allegro
14. II. Grave
15. III. Allegro
Concerto à 5 in F Major, Op. 1, No. 6
16. I. Allegro
17. II. Adagio cantabile
18. III. Allegro
Giacomo Facco (1676–1753), born near Venice, was active in southern Italy as violinist, choirmaster and teacher before his appointment to the Spanish royal court around 1720. Although highly esteemed in his own time, particularly as a composer of operas, Facco had disappeared from musical history until a set of his twelve Pensieri Adriarmonici – concertos for three violins, viola and cello – were discovered by chance in a Mexican library in 1962. It took years of musical detective work by the musicologist Uberto Zanolli to piece together Facco’s life from the surviving documents – a story told by his daughter in the booklet. Bright and buoyant, the Pensieri Adriarmonici – the title possibly alluding to Venice or Balkan folk music – have much in common with the music of Vivaldi, Albinoni, Marcello and Facco’s other Venetian contemporaries. These performances by the Mexican Baroque Orchestra – on the first volume of the first-ever complete recording of the Pensieri Adriarmonici – feature a Mexican approach to the basso continuo, played here on guitarrón and vihuela.