Marcello - Complete Sonatas for Organ and Harpsichord
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95277
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Release Date: 7th September 2018
Contents
Works
Ciaccona (La Stravaganza)Fuga per Organo in E minor
Fuga per Organo in G minor
Harpsichord Sonatas (12), op.3
Sonata di Organo in C major
Sonata in C major
Sonata in C minor
Sonata in G major [1]
Sonata in G major [2]
Sonata in G major [3]
Variationi, o partie per il Cembalo o Organo
Artists
Chiara Minali (organ)Laura Farabollini (harpsichord)
Works
Ciaccona (La Stravaganza)Fuga per Organo in E minor
Fuga per Organo in G minor
Harpsichord Sonatas (12), op.3
Sonata di Organo in C major
Sonata in C major
Sonata in C minor
Sonata in G major [1]
Sonata in G major [2]
Sonata in G major [3]
Variationi, o partie per il Cembalo o Organo
Artists
Chiara Minali (organ)Laura Farabollini (harpsichord)
About
The epitome of a Renaissance man, Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739) won success and acclaim as a poet, writer, musician, lawyer, judge, administrator and philologist. Though his keyboard sonatas have appeared on several recorded collections of the Italian Baroque, they have rarely been presented in a comprehensive manner. In doing so, this album celebrates the personal even idiosyncratic style of a composer whose technical accomplishment facilitates rather than stifling his creative voice.
The 12 Sonatas were later published as Op.3. They date from early in Marcello’s career, and are mostly cast in three and four brief movements, though the first and last of them, in D minor and C minor respectively, feature more extended forms. The minor-key sonatas are generally more dramatic and varied in mood; two complementary performances of the G minor Sonata afford the opportunity to compare the tone-colours of the different instruments used on the recording.
There are several sonatas not belonging to the Op.3 collection which are less often heard, and their inclusion here is valuable, alongside Marcello’s magnificent chaconne, subtitled ‘La stravaganza’: a 15-minute tour-de-force of keyboard invention.
The album is enhanced by a vivid account of Marcello’s music, life and career, written by the harpsichordist Laura Farabollini. On this recording she plays a modern Italian copy of a late-18th century French instrument by Taskin, with two manuals and four registers. Chiara Minali plays an organ built by Gio’ Batta Sona in 1812, in the Cornu Evangelii choir of the parish church of San Pietro in Cattedra at Valeggio sul Mincio near Verona.
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