Vivaldi - Cello Sonatas
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95346
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 7th October 2016
Contents
Works
Cello Sonata no.1 in B flat major, RV47Cello Sonata no.2 in F major, RV41
Cello Sonata no.3 in A minor, RV43
Cello Sonata no.4 in B flat major, RV45
Cello Sonata no.5 in E minor, RV40
Cello Sonata no.6 in B flat major, RV46
Artists
Francesco Galligioni (cello)L’Arte dell’Arco
Works
Cello Sonata no.1 in B flat major, RV47Cello Sonata no.2 in F major, RV41
Cello Sonata no.3 in A minor, RV43
Cello Sonata no.4 in B flat major, RV45
Cello Sonata no.5 in E minor, RV40
Cello Sonata no.6 in B flat major, RV46
Artists
Francesco Galligioni (cello)L’Arte dell’Arco
About
Their trademark qualities of rhythmic elan and light textures are now brought to six of the composer’s nine surviving cello sonatas. These were not assigned an opus number but were published together in 1740, just a year before his death. That the sonatas are late works may also be inferred from the borrowing of earlier music, including arias from his operas.
All the sonatas are four‐movement works, in which slow movements preface alternating quick ones, in the manner of church sonatas from the period. Indeed this synthesis of sacred and secular genres was a preoccupation of Vivaldi throughout his career. The slow movements not borrowed from operas often work in grave patterns of scales, while the quick finales are always dashing and dance‐like. The choice of key for the six sonatas is also interesting: three of them (Nos. 1, 4 and 6) are in a somewhat darkly expressive B flat major, whereas two (Nos. 3 and 4) plunge the listener into the emotionally charged atmosphere of A minor and E minor. Only the Second Sonata, in F major, is more luminous and clear in hue.
The soloist on this new recording is Francesco Galligioni, who has played these works with Anner Bylsma, the great Dutch Baroque cellist. He is a regular member of the Venice Baroque Orchestra, which has become renowned for its concerts and recordings of Vivaldi’s music, and also cellist with the L’Aura Soave group which has made recordings as part of a Vivaldi Edition.
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