Michele Benuzzi - Gallés: Sonatas for Harpsichord
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 78:51 min | 513 MB
Label: Brilliant Classics | Tracks: 13 | Rls.date: 2016
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 78:51 min | 513 MB
Label: Brilliant Classics | Tracks: 13 | Rls.date: 2016
Anyone enthralled by the quixotic imagination of Domenico Scarlatti, as exhibited by his 555 keyboard sonatas, will want to hear these examples of the work by his almost unknown contemporary, Josep Gallés.
Biographical details are thin on the ground: he was born in Castellterçol in 1758 and at some point of his life became Maestro di cappella in the Cathedral of Vic near Barcelona, where he died in 1836. Little of his own music survives: just 23 keyboard Sonatas and some versos for organ.
In Scarlattian style, the sonatas are single-movement works in two parts except for No.4 in F minor which has a beautiful slow introduction. Gallés also employed many of the folkloristic tropes of Spanish music such as guitar-like arpeggios, alternations of major and minor, exotic scales, dance rhythms, use of syncopations and crossed hands. He was also partial to extravagant modulations and enharmonic movement between distant keys, a trait which the opening sonata of the collection seems designed to exhibit. Listening through the collection, it is possible to hear the chronological movement from Baroque to Classical style just as Gallés himself lived and worked through the transition (as it now seems to us).
Michele Benuzzi has made several well-received albums for Brilliant Classics of unfamiliar names from the period, including Christoph Nichelmann (BC94809) and Hans Leo Hässler. In recording the music of Gallés, as he remarks in his own booklet note, he particularly appreciates the expressivity of a style which is marked out from the superficiality of most of his contemporaries: his neglect hitherto seems all the more surprising, and worth correcting.
TRACKLIST
01. Sonata in C Minor, No. 9: Allegretto
02. Sonata in F Minor, No. 16: Allegro
03. Sonata in B-Flat Major, No. 1: Cantabile - Largo
04. Sonata in B-Flat Major, No. 2: Allegro
05. Sonata in G Minor, No. 8: Presto
06. Sonata in C Minor, No. 3: Andante
07. Sonata in A-Flat Major, No. 6: Allegro
08. Sonata in F Minor, No. 4: Largo, allegro
09. Sonata in D Minor, No. 12: Allegretto
10. Sonata in B Minor, No. 7: Andantino
11. Sonata in E Minor, No. 11: Cantabile - Largo
12. Sonata in E Minor, No. 15: Allegro
13. Sonata in C Minor, No. 17: Cantabile - Largo
PERFORMER: auCDtect Task Manager, ver. 1.6.0 RC1 build 1.6.0.1
Copyright © 2008-2010 y-soft. All rights reserved
ANALYZER: auCDtect: CD records authenticity detector, version 0.8.2
Copyright © 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved.
FILE: 13. Sonata in C Minor, No. 17 Cantabile - Largo.flac
Size: 45174196 Hash: C635B1B4714C515FA4155E64F800DD1B Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: 72F6AA183BCA016FCDA7FB8B807D1909FE157A6C
FILE: 12. Sonata in E Minor, No. 15 Allegro.flac
Size: 36641965 Hash: 4DC33E83C72E841CBE8C7FA21CD094D3 Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: C313579FAB20118BC8A0DFF2CCBDEC3219E7B053
FILE: 11. Sonata in E Minor, No. 11 Cantabile - Largo.flac
Size: 29710848 Hash: 5AF0104931FDD3477891056A911ECA57 Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: 643F83393F0AFE291297F7B5F70B17E0824963CB
FILE: 10. Sonata in B Minor, No. 7 Andantino.flac
Size: 43624185 Hash: 1B94B89C3F72D806B614DDDC9C7C1365 Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: MPEG 100%
Signature: 5A936D338E63A8D136B23B4EC65F0F1C13217CDC
FILE: 09. Sonata in D Minor, No. 12 Allegretto.flac
Size: 33465127 Hash: 8F241E37148CA3E79630C89A96A6937B Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: D6927B46AB2AF4C7640EA54CC9D6505BCE552FF6
FILE: 08. Sonata in F Minor, No. 4 Largo, allegro.flac
Size: 59745971 Hash: 2093E1968DAF16412B9E5B5D45CCE7DD Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: DE924F934DFA26E0ED39AE32EA1A140AE18D98F8
FILE: 07. Sonata in A-Flat Major, No. 6 Allegro.flac
Size: 45061554 Hash: F3B499081F8F8A555BDF04E7880DE20C Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: C208F563EB0F230573E54879032F82156F2B7561
FILE: 06. Sonata in C Minor, No. 3 Andante.flac
Size: 43392545 Hash: E47A0D1FC3EB6F5C90333903A828D97F Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: MPEG 73%
Signature: 5E86B0D3B31C243B3EE94665404528338D7F6B9D
FILE: 05. Sonata in G Minor, No. 8 Presto.flac
Size: 31275309 Hash: B20D141654150E896A81821C20267432 Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: C86C416AFBE1571BA42ED73FC286D9057F908194
FILE: 04. Sonata in B-Flat Major, No. 2 Allegro.flac
Size: 48550983 Hash: C65E6C5E9C9E5C6703D5A45D450BF82D Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: C451EF5D743B47C8DC48F8CCB17E7D864410734E
FILE: 03. Sonata in B-Flat Major, No. 1 Cantabile - Largo.flac
Size: 43916358 Hash: C592935C5842D9386AE4AA1D4C59B54C Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: 23236E77A6B5455E5250B42CEB33AB9C3ABB441A
FILE: 02. Sonata in F Minor, No. 16 Allegro.flac
Size: 35938776 Hash: 92D0BCB7CDDBC2083D8A76F5C15BB3EA Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: F53EC6176A9372282815387313D65A6B719AAE8C
FILE: 01. Sonata in C Minor, No. 9 Allegretto.flac
Size: 39663675 Hash: ECD8FC2565E74C6F6E4AB6D18361B24A Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: FCDAD7C1E4DDF580EB5880D0E2F0D775AB646DE3
Copyright © 2008-2010 y-soft. All rights reserved
ANALYZER: auCDtect: CD records authenticity detector, version 0.8.2
Copyright © 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved.
FILE: 13. Sonata in C Minor, No. 17 Cantabile - Largo.flac
Size: 45174196 Hash: C635B1B4714C515FA4155E64F800DD1B Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: 72F6AA183BCA016FCDA7FB8B807D1909FE157A6C
FILE: 12. Sonata in E Minor, No. 15 Allegro.flac
Size: 36641965 Hash: 4DC33E83C72E841CBE8C7FA21CD094D3 Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: C313579FAB20118BC8A0DFF2CCBDEC3219E7B053
FILE: 11. Sonata in E Minor, No. 11 Cantabile - Largo.flac
Size: 29710848 Hash: 5AF0104931FDD3477891056A911ECA57 Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: 643F83393F0AFE291297F7B5F70B17E0824963CB
FILE: 10. Sonata in B Minor, No. 7 Andantino.flac
Size: 43624185 Hash: 1B94B89C3F72D806B614DDDC9C7C1365 Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: MPEG 100%
Signature: 5A936D338E63A8D136B23B4EC65F0F1C13217CDC
FILE: 09. Sonata in D Minor, No. 12 Allegretto.flac
Size: 33465127 Hash: 8F241E37148CA3E79630C89A96A6937B Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: D6927B46AB2AF4C7640EA54CC9D6505BCE552FF6
FILE: 08. Sonata in F Minor, No. 4 Largo, allegro.flac
Size: 59745971 Hash: 2093E1968DAF16412B9E5B5D45CCE7DD Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: DE924F934DFA26E0ED39AE32EA1A140AE18D98F8
FILE: 07. Sonata in A-Flat Major, No. 6 Allegro.flac
Size: 45061554 Hash: F3B499081F8F8A555BDF04E7880DE20C Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: C208F563EB0F230573E54879032F82156F2B7561
FILE: 06. Sonata in C Minor, No. 3 Andante.flac
Size: 43392545 Hash: E47A0D1FC3EB6F5C90333903A828D97F Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: MPEG 73%
Signature: 5E86B0D3B31C243B3EE94665404528338D7F6B9D
FILE: 05. Sonata in G Minor, No. 8 Presto.flac
Size: 31275309 Hash: B20D141654150E896A81821C20267432 Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: C86C416AFBE1571BA42ED73FC286D9057F908194
FILE: 04. Sonata in B-Flat Major, No. 2 Allegro.flac
Size: 48550983 Hash: C65E6C5E9C9E5C6703D5A45D450BF82D Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: C451EF5D743B47C8DC48F8CCB17E7D864410734E
FILE: 03. Sonata in B-Flat Major, No. 1 Cantabile - Largo.flac
Size: 43916358 Hash: C592935C5842D9386AE4AA1D4C59B54C Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: 23236E77A6B5455E5250B42CEB33AB9C3ABB441A
FILE: 02. Sonata in F Minor, No. 16 Allegro.flac
Size: 35938776 Hash: 92D0BCB7CDDBC2083D8A76F5C15BB3EA Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: F53EC6176A9372282815387313D65A6B719AAE8C
FILE: 01. Sonata in C Minor, No. 9 Allegretto.flac
Size: 39663675 Hash: ECD8FC2565E74C6F6E4AB6D18361B24A Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: FCDAD7C1E4DDF580EB5880D0E2F0D775AB646DE3
Thanks to the Original customer.