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Background: The programme chosen for this CD by the eminent early music specialist Rinaldo Alessandrini and performed by members of his hand-picked ensemble Concerto Italiano illustrate most of the forms that instrumental music adopted in the course of the seventeenth century.

In 1587 the publication in Venice of a Ricercar per sonar by Andrea Gabrieli was symptomatic of a new order in the history of music. The sole vocation of the art of Europe was no longer to accompany a text, and purely instrumental music was now established in its own right. The city of Venice played a special role in the gradual abandonment of Renaissance forms, where the freedom of thought permitted by the republic and its status as the publishing capital of the world facilitated an unprecedented development of secular music, and it was there in 1617 that Biagio Marini published the first sonata for violin and continuo. The selection of 17th century pieces performed on this CD was entirely recorded by a four-part group (two violins, viola, and continuo), a typically Italian formation that was to lead to the birth of the string quartet in the eighteenth century.

CATALOGUE NR: OP30531
RECORD LABEL: Naive
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.65
RELEASE DATE: 27-Feb-2012

COMPOSER: Luigi Rossi  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: 1600
TRACKS: Fantaisie (Luigi Rossi). Canzone a quattro detta la spiritata (Giovanni Gabrieli). Canzone quinta a quattro detta la chremasca (Tarquinio Merula). Consonanze stravaganti (Giovanni de Macque). Canzona quinta a quattro (Girolamo Frescobaldi). Capriccio cromatico (Tarquinio Merula). Canzone francesca seconda a quattro (Giovanni Salvatore). Sonata decimasesta a quattro (Dario Castello). Il scolaro… per imparare a suonare di violino : Iintrada e balletto del marchese di caravazzo / Alemana / La bella pedrina / Aria del granduca / Gagliarda detta la lisfeltina / Il spagnoletto / Gallaria d'amor gagliarda e canario (Gasparo Zanetti). Passacaglio a quattro e a tre (Biagio Marini). Sonata seconda a quattro : Andante / Allegro / Adagio / Presto e allegro (Giovanni Legrenzi). Sinfonia quarta : Grave / Allegro / Adagio / Non tanto presto (Giovanni Bononcini). Concerto a quattro op.6 No.1 : Presto / Allegro / Adagio / Allegro (Giuseppe Torelli). Concerto a quattro op.2 No.1 : Largo / / Allegro / Andante / Allegro assai (Evaristo dall'Abaco).
ORCHESTRA: Concerto Italiano
CONDUCTOR: Rinaldo Alessandrini
ARTISTS: Nicholas Robinson   Ettore Belli   Luca Peverini   Rinaldo Alessandrini

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Masterpieces of 17th-century Italian Instrumental Music

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