Wagenseil - 6 Sonatas for Violin, Cello & Violone
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Label: Challenge Classics
Cat No: CC72896
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 11th February 2022
Contents
Artists
Musica ElegentiaAbout
The collection of Six Sonatas, presented on this CD, from the early fifties of the eighteenth century should be placed among the first chamber documents for three independent strings, without the support of a keyboard instrument for the realisation of the continuo. The instrumental ensemble in these Sonatas almost reflects the vocal pattern of a trio between soprano, tenor, and bass, where the two upper voices interweave a duet, and the low one sustains, controls, points out, intervening here and there with short cues. In general, in these "divertimenti-sonatas" there is a sure hand in managing the polyphonic dialogic interweaving as well as the shape of the form, mixed with a pretty good standard of melodic invention, always inserted in a rigorous and at the same time smooth structure. And this happens all the more in the performance of Musica Elegentia, which aims at enhancing the idea of inter-instrumental dialogue and the individuality of the three instruments, as if they were interlocutors in conversation.
These Sonatas are exquisite testimonies of the middle age between Handel and Bach on the one hand, Haydn and Mozart on the other. Studies on performance practice have shown that in Viennese and Austrian circles the use of the violone as "bass" was very frequent, at least up to a certain date. Joseph Haydn himself indicated only "Violone" in his scores until 1772. The violone in this epoch was considered the "true" bass of the string family. The three instruments are always well identified, and you can always grasp the individual lines: the main melody as well as the embroidery, the foreground as well as the background.
Musica Elegentia:
- Paola Nervi (violin)
- Antonio Coloccia (cello)
- Matteo Cicchitti (violone, musical director)
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