Se in fiorito ameno prato. Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo Quartetto Vanvitelli

• George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759): Sonata in D Major, HWV 371:
• 1 Handel: Sonata in D Major, HWV 371: I. Affettuoso 03:41
• 2 Handel: Sonata in D Major, HWV 371: II. Allegro 04:11
• Allemande, HWV 479:
• 3 Handel: Allemande, HWV 479 00:53
• Sonata in D Major, HWV 371:
• 4 Handel: Sonata in D Major, HWV 371: III. Larghetto 02:19
• 5 Handel: Sonata in D Major, HWV 371: IV. Allegro 02:43
• Prelude, HWV 572 (Arr. for Achlute by Mauro Pinciaroli):
• 6 Handel: Prelude, HWV 572 (Arr. for Achlute by Mauro Pinciaroli) 01:04
• Sonata in D Minor, HWV 359a:
• 7 Handel: Sonata in D Minor, HWV 359a: I. Grave 02:34
• 8 Handel: Sonata in D Minor, HWV 359a: II. Allegro 01:48
• Aria. V’adoro pupille (Arr. for Violin, Cello and Continuo by Nicola Brovelli):
• 9 Handel: Aria. V’adoro pupille (Arr. for Violin, Cello and Continuo by Nicola Brovelli) 01:54
• Sonata in D Minor, HWV 359a:
• 10 Handel: Sonata in D Minor, HWV 359a: III. Adagio 01:32
• 11 Handel: Sonata in D Minor, HWV 359a: IV. Allegro 01:47
• Sonata in A Major, HWV 361:
• 12 Handel: Sonata in A Major, HWV 361: I. Andante 02:09
• 13 Handel: Sonata in A Major, HWV 361: II: Allegro 03:02
• 14 Handel: Sonata in A Major, HWV 361: III: Adagio 00:58
• 15 Handel: Sonata in A Major, HWV 361: IV. Allegro 02:26
• Sonata in G Minor, HWV 364a:
• 16 Handel: Sonata in G Minor, HWV 364a: I. Andante larghetto 01:49
• 17 Handel: Sonata in G Minor, HWV 364a: II. Allegro 01:35
• 18 Handel: Sonata in G Minor, HWV 364a: III. Adagio 01:17
• 19 Handel: Sonata in G Minor, HWV 364a: IV. Allegro 01:38
• Sonata in E Major, HWV 373:
• 20 Handel: Sonata in E Major, HWV 373: I. Adagio 02:25
• 21 Handel: Sonata in E Major, HWV 373: II: Allegro 02:17
• 22 Handel: Sonata in E Major, HWV 373: III: Largo 01:28
• 23 Handel: Sonata in E Major, HWV 373: IV. Allegro 02:33
• Sonata in G Minor, HWV 368:
• 24 Handel: Sonata in G Minor, HWV 368: I. Andante 02:17
• 25 Handel: Sonata in G Minor, HWV 368: II. Allegro 02:35
• 26 Handel: Sonata in G Minor, HWV 368: IIII: Adagio 01:23
• Aria “Cara speme, questo core” (Arr. for Violin and Continuo by Nicola Brovelli):
• 27 Handel: Aria “Cara speme, questo core” (Arr. for Violin and Continuo by Nicola Brovelli) 04:24
• Sonata in G Minor, HWV 368:
• 28 Handel: Sonata in G Minor, HWV 368: IV. Allegro 01:56
• Total Runtime 01:00:38

Info zu Se in fiorito ameno prato. Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo

Händels in London komponierte Violinsonaten reichen von der Blütezeit der italienischen Opernproduktionen der Royal Academy of Music bis zu seinen letzten englischen Oratorien. Der ursprüngliche Zweck, der Kontext und die Interpreten der Sonaten sind nicht bekannt, nur einige wenige sind in autographen Manuskripten erhalten. Die Autorenschaft und die Instrumentierung der Stücke, die in unzuverlässigen frühen Druckquellen erhalten sind, sind ein verwirrendes Durcheinander. Das Quartetto Vanvitelli erfindet eine Erzählung, die die Möglichkeiten von Emotionen, Klangfarben und verbindenden Tonalitäten auslotet, die sich durch mehrere authentische Violinsonaten, einige falsche Zuschreibungen, Zitate aus Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724) und Bearbeitungen mehrerer Klavierstücke ergeben - eine kreative Vision, die das Licht durch das Prisma von Händels Musik bündelt.

Quartetto Vanvitelli

Quartetto Vanvitelli
The Quartetto Vanvitelli, born in 2017, is an Italian Baroque group composed by Gian Andrea Guerra, Nicola Brovelli, Luigi Accardo and Mauro Pinciaroli, musicians with concert activities carried out in the most important festivals of the sector such as Festival Monteverdi, MiTo, Ravenna Festival, Stresa Festiva, Roma Europa Festival, Echi Lontani, Regie Sinfonie, Grandezze e Meraviglie, Anima Mundi.

The Quartet has decided to contribute to the heritage of the baroque music by taking an interest in new music never published, recording two records for the prestigious label Arcana (Outhere Music). The quartet’s work has been enthusiastically received by the main European specialized magazines (Diapason, Musica, Amadeus, BBC Music Magazine, Deutschlandfunk, and many others). The music, the sonatas for violin and basso continuo op.8 and op.9 by Michele Mascitti, represents an idea of the Neapolitan period of the early 18th century in a surprising mix with the French style. The Mascitti sonatas are a happy synthesis of the various stylistic influences, both Italian and transalpine, assimilated by the author in the most diverse environments that have characterized his professional and human life. The melodic gesture that opens the entire collection of opera VIII, accompanied by the bass “passeggiato”, cannot help but remind us that Corelli remained the reference model for the entire compositional work of Mascitti.

In a musical path in which slow and fast movements alternate, dance movements are added or interpolated, but this is not the only pecularity: in fact to the gallant rhythms and cadences, Mascitti however also combines harmonic solutions and movements that evoke characteristics of Neapolitan vocal and instrumental music. Without doubt the role of Mascitti and other Neapolitan musicians, who at the beginning of the eighteenth century conquered the Parisian public, was decisive for the diffusion of Italian music in France and for the development of the French instrumental tradition. Already in 1713 an article on Mercure galant acknowledged its merits, stating, a little emphatically, that “Corelli, Albinoni, Michel [Mascitti] and many others have composed [so- nate] that will remain immortal and that few can equal.”

Booklet für Se in fiorito ameno prato. Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo