Di chiesa e di camera: Violin Music at the Polish Vasa Court
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Label: RecArt
Cat No: RA0031
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 1st November 2019
Contents
Works
Nativitas gloriosaeSonata IV
Sonata I
Motetti e sonate concertati, Book I, op.6
Capriccio per camera
Sonata V 'Nativitas gloriosae'
Sonata VI 'Capriccio'
Sonata XV
Artists
Teresa Piech (violin)Joanna Radziszewska-Sojka (soprano)
Krzysztof Urbaniak (organ)
Works
Nativitas gloriosaeSonata IV
Sonata I
Motetti e sonate concertati, Book I, op.6
Capriccio per camera
Sonata V 'Nativitas gloriosae'
Sonata VI 'Capriccio'
Sonata XV
Artists
Teresa Piech (violin)Joanna Radziszewska-Sojka (soprano)
Krzysztof Urbaniak (organ)
About
Unfortunately, little of their indubitably prolific compositional oeuvre has survived to our day. Absolutely no materials directly from the royal court were preserved; they were probably destroyed back during the Swedish invasion. The compositions were not published in print; those works fortunate enough to survive were preserved in manuscript copies in sources not associated with the court.
The Vasa chapel composers’ oeuvre for solo violin still remains in the sphere of unanswered questions. Aside from surviving and well-known works for large ensemble, the violinists mentioned multiple times in sources must also no doubt have performed works for smaller ensemble, including solo sonatas; however, no evidence concerning the type or quantity of repertoire has survived. The works presented on this CD represent an attempt to reconstruct the possible state of violin music at the Vasa court in the first half of the 17th century, and were written by composers in various ways associated with the Polish court. What they have in common is a harmonic layer of extraordinary richness for its time. The composers make broad use of highly-developed chromaticism and bold harmonic combinations; they often utilize distant tonalities, going far outside the meantone temperament system in effect at the time. To showcase this music in a sound most closely approximating the original, it seems natural to record it in a church interior, utilizing the only surviving and restored Vasa-period instrument in Poland: an organ built in 1633 by Hans Hummel and Jerzy Nitrowski at the Basilica of St. Andrew the Apostle in Olkusz, the renovation of which was completed in 2018.
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