Michael Talbot

Trio sonatas by Italian composers from the period around 1730 that specify flutes for both upper parts are quite rare. Among the earliest known are these three concise four-movement sonatas of only mo...

Stanley Sadies 1963 geäußerte Meinung, dass die beiden der zwölf Triosonaten von Frederick Ernest Fisher (1711/12–1760), die zu gleichen Teilen auf Op. 1 (ca. 1751) und Op. 2 (ca. 1761) aufgeteilt war...

Quentins Triosonaten beeindrucken durch ihre Beherrschung aller Elemente der musikalischen Komposition, insbesondere des Kontrapunkts (Fugen sind eine seiner Spezialitäten). Sie mischen auf attraktive...

Only a handful of Schreivogel's compositions for his instrument have survived. Among them is this impressive and forward-looking three-movement sonata for violin and continuo in E minor, evidently com...

La Montanari has a five-movement plan with a 'double' finale: a finale of normal length is followed by a miniature second finale, like coffee following a dessert. The model for this arrangement may ha...

The three 'Dresden' sonatas published together in this volume are believed to be the first-ever modern edition of any of his chamber music. The edition comes complete with a preface, textual notes, a...

Both cantatas are typical specimens of Albinoni's style. The little flourishes of conjunct demisemiquavers seen in bar 13 of the opening aria of Vorrei che lo sapessi and bar 14 of that of Senza il co...

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) is today best known for his concertos for strings, in which genre he was a pioneer, and for his music with solo trumpet. In his own day, however, he was equally productive...

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) was the reputed father of the instrumental concerto, yet he also composed sacred vocal music. Discovered in 2001, when the Berlin Sing-Akademie's archive was returned from...

The eighteenth century saw a great increase in secular music for solo voice and continuo set to texts in Venetian, then a recognized literary language rather than a mere Italian dialect. Most of these...

These previously unnoticed chamber duets for various pairs of voices and basso continuo are among the most original compositions from the pen of Diogenio Bigaglia (1678-1745), the Venetian monk who wa...

Henry Holcombe (1690-1756), der in Chester als Sohn eines Seidenwebers geboren wurde, entwickelte sich zwischen 1720 und seinem Tod zu einem der führenden englischen Komponisten kleinerer Formate, hau...

These previously unnoticed chamber duets for various pairs of voices and basso continuo are among the most original compositions from the pen of Diogenio Bigaglia (1678-1745), the Venetian monk who wa...

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) was the reputed father of the instrumental concerto; what is not widely known is that he also composed sacred vocal music. Discovered in 2001, when the Berlin Sing-Akademi...

Another volume in the continuing series published by Ricordi in cooperation with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi. With critical and historical notes in Italian and Englis...

Sonata 1 opens with a movement marked 'Sostenuto' and expresses to perfection the melancholy gracefulness associated with B minor. A vivacious Allegro follows, kaleidoscopic in its ever-changing rhyth...

Towards the end of his long life the organist Christian Michael Wolff (1707-1789), resident in the Baltic port of Stettin (today, Szczecin in Poland), achieved a degree of fame as a composer through t...

The flute sonatas, now published in a modern edition for the first time, are all three-movement works. They bubble with life and have moments of great drama, particularly in the development sections o...

The flute sonatas, now published in a modern edition for the first time, are all three-movement works. They bubble with life and have moments of great drama, particularly in the development sections o...

Skinners wichtigste Veröffentlichung war ein Satz von sechs Sonaten für Flöte, Violine oder Cembalo solo, der 1752 erschien. Diese unprätentiösen Stücke, die sich damals wie heute gut für die Aufführu...

Skinners wichtigste Veröffentlichung war ein Satz von sechs Sonaten für Flöte, Violine oder Cembalo solo, der 1752 erschien. Diese unprätentiösen Stücke, die sich damals wie heute gut für die Aufführu...