This new recording presents “Sonate a tre”, Trio Sonatas for two violins, cello and a continuo of cello and organ, composed in Baroques style by present day composer and conductor Federico Maria Sardelli.
Composer: Federico Maria Sardelli
Artists: Stefano Bruni (violin), Giovanni Battista Scarpa (violin), Paola Talamini (organ), Lorenzo Parravicini (cello) & Bettina Hoffmann (cello)
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The ‘living Baroque’ idiom of Federico Maria Sardelli has been extensively documented on Brilliant Classics, with albums of concertos (BC94749), cantatas (BC95068) and harpsichord music (BC95488) that have advanced the reputation of this modern composer and scholar and won international attention, with 5-star reviews in Diapason and elsewhere.
Now Sardelli turns his imagination to the genre of the trio sonata that exemplified chamber music-making in the Baroque era. The collection of six presented here divides into two sub-genres, of the church sonatas (Nos. 2, 4, 5) and chamber sonata (Nos. 1, 3, 6) which would have been heard in a domestic, albeit aristocratically appointed, context. Sardelli makes passing and subtle allusions to poignant melancholy (in the Larghetto of the First Sonata), to an infernalrhythmic impulse (the second movement of the Fifth), to more profound meditations on mortality (such as the Adagio without bass of the Third), and even to declarations of love (the opening of the Sixth) – though the subject of Sardelli’s affection is surely Vivaldi himself.
According to the composer, this is not Baroque pastiche. Rather, as a noted scholar of Vivaldi, he seeks to recreate such music in his own image with music of the present which ‘regains its own original language and adheres to its own original criteria, expressing vibrant new ideas that are in keeping with its identity.’ It would be quite possible to think that the trio sonatas here had been written with a goose quill in 17th-century Venice, but they are by no means dry exercises in imitation. Rather they are full of an authentically Venetian vibrancy and colour from any age, sparkling with a variety of knowing brilliance that belongs to the temperamental character of the city.
The performances here are given by musicians who have long worked with Sardelli in his Modo Antiquo ensemble which has made highly praised recordings of ‘real’ Vivaldi as well as Sardelli.
Tracklist:
Sonata I in B-Flat Major:
0:00:00 I. Allegro
0:03:01 II. Larghetto
0:06:49 III. Allegro molto
Sonata II in D Minor:
0:08:49 I. Largo
0:13:00 II. Allegro
0:16:14 III. Andante
0:19:23 IV. Allegro molto
Sonata III in E Major:
0:21:42 I. Allegro ma d’un mezzo tempo
0:25:19 II. Adagio
0:30:16 III. Allegro e spiritoso
Sonata IV in A Minor:
0:31:41 I. Andante
0:34:38 II. Allegro
0:37:07 III. Andante
0:40:39 IV. Allegro
Sonata V in C Major:
0:43:37 I. Andante
0:48:32 II. Allegro
0:51:11 III. Largo e cantabile
0:55:18 IV. Allegro
Sonata VI in G Major:
0:57:05 I. Allegro
1:00:33 II. Largo
1:02:35 III. Allegro
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