Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Italian Violin Sonatas (2003)
Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Italian Violin Sonatas (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 381 Mb | Total time: 70:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas | # 5 45588 2 | Recorded: 2002
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 381 Mb | Total time: 70:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas | # 5 45588 2 | Recorded: 2002
One tends to associate the virtuoso violin repertoire with the 19th century, but in their own way these five sonatas, written between 1714 and 1743, offer an equally dazzling display of speed, facility, bow control and tonal variety. No wonder: the composers were among the foremost violin virtuosos of their time, as well as tireless innovators of technique and style; several even wrote treatises on violin playing. The earliest, and least familiar, is Michele Mascitti, a Neapolitan who moved to Paris when he was 30. His "Psyché," the program's only piece in a major key, is a divertissement in ten short "tableaux" on the theme of Cupid and Psyche, with the violin and continuo as the two protagonists. Refined and elegant, varied in texture, expression and character, it ranges from tender love songs to slow and fast dances, including a wild Badinage. Veracini's Sonata Op. 1 No. 1, a dance suite with an unusually active cello part, opens with a slow Overture and ends with a Giga del Postiglione, in which the violin imitates a posthorn's call. The other three sonatas are basically dramatic and melancholy, highly ornamented, full of double stops, running passages and cadenzas. Locatelli's is distinguished by a very elaborate keyboard part and a lot of spiky syncopation in the finale. Geminiani makes the violin sound quite luscious, almost romantic; his rhythms and phrases are startlingly irregular. He shares the exploration of the high register with Tartini, whose Sonata displays his incomparable melodic gift and trademark obsession with trills. The performances are beyond praise. Biondi, one of the deservedly most renowned baroque violinists, plays with enormous brilliance, expressiveness, and endlessly varied articulation and nuance; there is a sense of spontaneous exhilaration in his inventive, improvisatory ornamentation: he seems to be playing with the music and the violin. His partners, some manning several instruments, match him in every way.-Edith Eisler
Performer:
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi, violin
Maurizio Naddeo, cello
Giangiacomo Pinardi, theorbo, baroque quitar, cittern
Sergio Ciomei, harpsichord, organ, gravicembalo, clavichord
Track list:
Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768)
01. Sonata prima in G minor Op.1 No.1: I. Overtura (Largo) - Allegro - Adagio
02. II. Aria (affettuoso)
03. III. Paesana (Allegro)
04. IV. Minuet (Allegro)
05. V. Giga del Postiglione (Allegro)
Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764)
06. Sonata per violino e basso in D minor Op.6 No.12: I. Adagio
07. II. Allegro
08. III. Andante
09. IV. Allegro
Michele Mascitti (1664-1760)
10. Psyche Op.5 No.12: I. Grand air (Vivace)
11. II. Les vents (Allegro)
12. III. Festes Galantes [Sarabanda] (Largo)
13. IV. Badinage (Allegro)
14. V. Du sommeil (Largo e piano)
15. VI. L’amour en courroux au desespoir (Allegro e staccato)
16. VII. Calme amoureux (Largo)
17. VIII. La noce allemande [Allemanda]
18. IX. Suite de la noce [Forlana] (Allegro)
19. X. Derniere suite de la noce (Allegro)
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
20. Sonata in A minor Op.4 No.5: I. Andante
21. II. Presto
22. III. Allegro affettuoso
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
23. Sonata in G minor Op.2 No.1: I. Largo
24. II. Allegro
25. III. Allegro assai
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Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Italian Violin Sonatas (2003)
