Araja - Capricci; Pellegrini - Sonatas
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96482
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 25th February 2022
Contents
Artists
Enrico Bissolo (harpischord)About
While Araja’s life and musical production are essentially tied to the theatre, he achieved fame through sacred music. The turning point in Araja’s career came with an offer from the Neapolitan violinist Pietro Mira to work in St Petersburg as a court musician. He was also named choirmaster upon his arrival in Russia, a position he held for many years.
His musical production, apart from the operas and cantatas he composed for the Russian court, consists of an oratorio and a collection of Capricci for the harpsichord. The latter, featured on this recording, are extremely free compositions with a varied character, sometimes brilliantly virtuosic. In the absence of well-defined musical form, they consist rather of a series of episodes, or tableaux, with the common thread being the compositional skill through which Araja demonstrates his deep knowledge of the instrument and its performing technique. Araja died in 1770.
Details on Pellegrini’s life are scarce. After his birth in Naples there are traces of a relocation to Rome, where the records of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia document his enrolment in 1743. After Rome, Pellegrini moved to France, attested by a 10-year charter granted to ‘S.r Fernando Pellegrino musicien à Lyon’ in 1753 for the composition of ‘Trios et autres pièces de musique instrumentale’. Further testimony places Pellegrini in Paris (until 1762) in the service of Alexandre Le Riche de la Pouplinière. This weathly, sensitive patron of the arts funded a renowned orchestra, directed by Rameau and Stamitz, among others. La Pouplinière’s brother-in-law, the Abbé de Mondran, wrote of Pellegrini as “a true demon at the keyboard”.
Pellegrini composed a series of sonatas for solo harpsichord. The style is galant, characterised by elegant phrasing, melodic invention and repetitive accompanimental formulas. This pleasant music offers the performer opportunities to enrich the score with variations and diminutions. Pelegrini died in 1766.
Recorded in July of 2020 at Sant’Ambrogio di Valpolicella (Verona), Italy
Bilingual booklet in English and Italian contains notes on the composers written by the artist, as well as a biography of the artist
Enrico Bissolo plays a harpsichord by Keith Hill (Michigan, 1984) after Petrus Bull (Antwerp, 1769)
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