Campioni - 6 Harpsichord Sonatas op.4b
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95997
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 12th March 2021
Contents
Artists
Simone Stella (harpsichord)Valerio Losito (violin)
About
In this capacity Campioni travelled widely and his own music became known through its publication in Amsterdam, Paris and London. One eager consumer of his music through the London editions was the young amateur violinist (and future US president) Thomas Jefferson, who made a thematic catalogue of the seven collections he then owned, and this catalogue still serves as an aid to sorting out the bewildering confusion of Campioni's printed works. By 1789, when he left Paris, Jefferson owned nearly all of Campioni’s music for strings. Campioni amassed an impressive music library of his own, which attracted the attention of the traveller and writer Charles Burney.
Campioni was also an accomplished harpsichordist, as this collection of sonatas amply demonstrates. Full of elegant writing, graceful melodies and graceful ornamentation, the six sonatas fuse Classical-era and Baroque forms: sonata-form movements with dances such as gigues and minuets, and arpeggiated preludes such as one finds in the dance suites of Bach and Couperin. The Sixth Sonata stands apart from the others, being written for violin and harpsichord, with a continuous dialogue between the two instruments rather than simply the string instrument doubling the right hand of the keyboard as one commonly finds in such sonatas of the period. These bold and venturesome works should delight all lovers of Baroque rarities, winningly performed as they are here by Simone Stella.
Praise for Simone Stella on Brilliant Classics:
‘There is a great deal to admire here. There’s no question that Stella has the proper Buxtehude style... I also love Stella’s daring.’ – Fanfare on Buxtehude, 94312
‘Stella succeeds in restoring to Buxtehude all the facets of his expressive universe.’ – Diapason on Buxtehude, 94312
‘His realizations are invariably lively in tempo and rhythm, colourful in use of registrations and stops, and expressive in phrasing and dynamics... this is a release of major importance.’ – Fanfare on Walther, 94730
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