Luigi Merci - Six sonatas for bassoon Op.III
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Label: Tactus
Cat No: TC691301
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 1st September 2008
Contents
Artists
Paolo Tognon (bassoon solo)Pietro Bosna (cello)
Paola Frezzato (bassoon continuo)
Pietro Posser (theorbo)
Works
Bassoon Sonata in B flat majorBassoon Sonatas (6), op.3
Artists
Paolo Tognon (bassoon solo)Pietro Bosna (cello)
Paola Frezzato (bassoon continuo)
Pietro Posser (theorbo)
About
In 1730 he married Ann Hampshire and moved to the Covent Garden area of London. His printed Op.3 consists of two collections of sonatas: those for recorder (the last of their kind in England, where the transverse flute was becoming increasingly predominant), and the very interesting and rare sonatas for bassoon. Merci's personality as a wind player clearly emerges in these six sonatas. Indeed, their expressive quality is remarkable.
Merci's style might be defined as a marriage of the Italian school, with its felicitous melodic sense so suitable to the melancholy character of the bassoon, and the French style, abundantly represented by the refined ornaments which the composer himself carefully wrote out. Moreover, Merci pays homage to his homeland through the insertion of two lovely "Scottish airs" which exalt the rustic and rhythmic character of the bassoon.
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