Composer: Pietro Castrucci,
Francesco Geminiani,
Frederick Nussen
Performer: Tabea Schwartz, Thomas Leininger
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pan Classics
Catalogue: PC10431
Release: 2021
Size: 395 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Nussen: Musica di Camera, Op. 3
01. Prelude for Harpsichord
02. No. 1, A Scotch Tune
Castrucci: Recorder Sonata No. 1 in F major
03. Prelude for Recorder (1)
04. I. Adagio
05. II. Allegro
Nussen: Musica di Camera, Op. 3
06. No. 3, What Shall I Do to Shew
Castrucci: Recorder Sonata No. 2 in C major
07. III. Vivace
08. Prelude for Recorder (2)
09. I. Adagio
10. II. Allegro
11. III. Adagio
12. IV. Gavotta. Allegro
13. V. Menuette. Allegro
Nussen: Musica di Camera, Op. 3
14. No. 5, T’amo tanto
Castrucci: Recorder Sonata No. 3 in D minor
15. Prelude for Recorder (3)
16. I. Adagio
17. II. Allegro (1)
18. III. Adagio
19. IV. Allegro
Nussen: Musica di Camera, Op. 3
20. No. 7, When Young at the Bar
Castrucci: Recorder Sonata No. 4 in G major
21. I. Adagio (1)
22. II. Allegro (1)
23. III. Adagio (1)
24. IV. Gavotta
25. V. Menuett
Nussen: Musica di Camera, Op. 3
26. No. 11, Can Love Be Controul’d
Geminiani: Recorder Sonata No. 5 in D minor
27. Prelude for Recorder (4)
28. I. Grave
29. II. Allegro (2)
30. III. Grave
31. IV. Giga. Allegro
Nussen: Musica di Camera, Op. 3
32. No. 9, All in the Downs
Geminiani: Recorder Sonata No. 6 in G major
33. I. Adagio (2)
34. II. Allegro (2)
35. III. Adagio (2)
36. IV. Giga. Allegro
A French title, Italian repertoire, a Swedish manuscript… The manuscript of a certain “Georg Gerdin” provides insight into the ramified travel routes of good music in the 18th century. Nothing is known about Mr. Gerdin himself, only that he signed his manuscript “A Upsale le 8 d’Aout 1758”. In his manuscript, Gerdin compiled four sonatas by Pietro Castrucci and two by the now largely forgotten Francesco Geminiani, probably drawing on an edition printed almost fifty years earlier in Amsterdam and London, which had adapted the sonatas originally conceived for violin for the recorder.
The recorder player Tabea Schwartz presents these exciting and extremely virtuosic sonatas of the highest quality in a Swedish “reading”. Her congenial accompanist, the harpsichordist Thomas Leininger, combines them with short miniatures on well-known English melodies from a collection published in Sweden around 1770 by an unknown composer named Frederick Nussen.