Telemann - 6 Violin Sonatas (Frankfurt 1715)
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95391
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 20th January 2017
Contents
Artists
Valerio Losito (violin)Federico Del Sordo (harpsichord)
Works
Violin Sonatas (6), Frankfurt 1715Artists
Valerio Losito (violin)Federico Del Sordo (harpsichord)
About
Much of this music, it will be noted, concentrates on the composer’s fondness for wind instruments. Now Valerio Losito brings our attention to the accompanied sonatas. Rather as with Bach, when we think of Telemann and the violin, it is the unaccompanied music that first springs to mind, for the free and unbridled imagination and the evident pleasure it gives to violinists who perform and record the 12 fantasias. However (like Bach), Telemann produced a set of six sonatas for violin accompanied by harpsichord, with or without a separate basso continuo, and first published in 1715.
The sonatas were effectively his opus 1, published in 1715 at the comparatively late age of 24, and dedicated to the violinplaying Duke of Saxe‐Weimar, from whom Telemann evidently wished to curry favour to judge from his long and obsequious preface. In just six sonatas may be found a remarkable diversity of elements: the Italianate style and Corelli‐like fugues of Sonatas 1 and 5, echoes of Polish and ‘gypsy’ folk music in Sonatas 3 and 4, melodious arias reminiscent of Handel in sonata 3, and dance movements in the French style in Sonatas 2 and 6. Telemann’s genius allowed him to condense and reconcile in one volume parallel worlds that would appear to be mutually incompatible.
Valerio Losito’s diverse musical interests and accomplishments are reflected in his discography on Brilliant Classics, which centres on music of the Baroque. Violin Sonatas by Tessarini (BC94787) and Veracini (BC94822) testify to a scholarly hunger for the unusual and little‐known, but he has also promoted the cause of the viola d’amore, with a mixed album of solo Baroque (BC94367), music by Domenico Scarlatti (BC94242) and the late‐Romantic Austrian composer Robert Lach (BC95321).
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