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Boismortier has imbued his Op. 28 sonatas with the same elegance, melodic and harmonic interest, and contrapuntal ability that characterise his other 'Italian' trio sonatas, and the works are technica...

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 leading composer of instrumental music in a flourishing school of composers active in Bologna in the second half of the seventeenth century and the opening decades...

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) was the leading composer of instrumental music in a flourishing school of composers active in Bologna in the second half of the seventeenth century and the opening decades...

Partly on account of their instrumentation, the Op. 18 sonatas are closely modelled on Corelli's Opp. 1-4, both in terms of style and violin technique. Each consists of four or five movements, at leas...

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's [VI] Sonates en Trio Pour deux Violons avec la Baße Op. 18, which appeared in 1727, are veritable gems of high baroque French instrumental music.

The six trio sonatas published alongside eight violin sonatas in his Op. 4 are works in four or five movements that felicitously mix the ‘church' and ‘chamber' styles in various configurations. This i...

This double concerto displays Valentini's originality in development of musical form and thematic material. The ritornello from the second movement Allegro is appended to the final Presto giving the c...

The chaconne was particularly dear to French baroque composers, from Lully to Leclair, from Marais to Rameau, and Boismortier was no exception. In one of his most original works, the Quinque sur l'oct...

The ten Passagagli are Francone's only known compositions. The term ‘violoncello' in the collection's title, one of the earliest occurences within the Neapolitan repertory, is problematic: the music i...

Spielpartitur (2 Exemplare). You are trying to remember an image. Only details come back to your mind. From those details, you must reconstitute the whole. You memory is blurred. You mix memories, you...

In a moment, you will jump. You have but a few seconds to deliberate, to calculate, to concentrate. Just enough time to count to twelve. What if time stopped at that exact moment?

The opportunity to write a string quartet for the Chilingirians was on the table for a long time. After several false starts, the present piece was begun in Crete in the summer of 2000. An earlier wor...

Like so many of his compatriots, the Czech-born Vaclav Pichl spent much of his working life in Vienna (where the Empress Maria Theresa, preferred him to Mozart), but with a period working for Dittersd...

This second volume in the series of his Op. 13 quartets exploits each instrument equally - even the viola is allocated elaborate solo passages - and offers an attractive alternative (as Haydn realised...

The present work features a kind of pentatonic music that is often associated with a far eastern landscape. However, it has no genuine compositional connection with Asian music. In this piece pentaton...