Composer: Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Antonio Caldara, Nicola Matteis, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, Antonio Vivaldi
Performer: La Serenissima
Conductor: Adrian Chandler
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Signum
Catalogue: SIGCD751
Release: 2023
Size: 1.81 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Purcell: Chacony
Telemann: Ouverture-Suite in G Major, TWV 55:G5
02. I. Largo – Fuga
03. II. Loure
04. III. Bourée 1 – Bourée 2
05.
06. V. Air Angloise
Matteis the Younger: Concerto for Violin, Strings & Continuo in B flat major
07. I. Sinfonia
08. II. Adagio
09. III. Air: Allegro e Presto
10. IV. Sarabanda
11. V. Allegro
Caldara: La Verità nell’Inganno
12. Ouverture: Largo – Presto – Adagio – Presto
Matteis the Younger: La Verità nell’Inganno
L’Ultimo Balletto
13. I. Aria per li Masacari
14.II. Aria per li Sultani
15. III . Aria
16. IV. Tempo di Ciaconna
Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in E minor, RV277 ‘Il favorito’
17. I. Allegro
18. II. Andante
19. III. Allegro
Brescianello: Overture-Suite for strings & b.c.
20. I. Largo – Fuga
21. II. Aria
22. III. Adagio
23. IV. Hornpipe
24. V. Bourée
25. VI. Aria
26. VII. Aria
27. VIII. Aria
28. IX. Aria
29. X. Aria
30. XI. Gigue
31. Brescianello: Chaconne in A major
The latest release from renowned period ensemble La Serenissima celebrates the life and work of Nicola Matteis the Younger.
Born in London to an Italian father and English mother, Matteis was immersed in the style of Henry Purcell before leaving England in 1700 for the Imperial Court in Vienna.
All of the music on the album is – rather fortuitously – Carolean; either written for Charles II of England, or for (or in the realm of) Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI.
It is all too easy to think that the English style and English musicians were unknown on the continent in the early C18, but this selection of music shows that this wasn’t (always) the case.
There are some cracking dances and dance suites featured here, as well as a ravishingly beautiful Vivaldi concerto and two superb Chaconnes, one by an Englishman, and one by an Italian.