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The eleventh sonata, in five movements, is one of the most elaborate in the set. Its first movement (A tempo giusto) is very ornate and makes attractive use of syncopation. The second movement (Vivace...

The twelfth sonata, in four movements, makes a fitting climax to the set. Its first movement (Vivace) is somewhat corrente-like, with delicately traced passage-work. The Andante that follows is distin...

The present work consists of four movements in the tempo-sequence slow - fast - slow - fast: the 'classic' structure associated especially with Corelli. The slow movements are lyrical, the fast moveme...

This four movement sonata exemplifies Albicastro's mastery of the Corellian style.

Eberl's Sonata in D major, Op.20, the sixth of seven sonatas with violin, was composed around 1803 and dedicated to Dorothea Ertmann, the highly regarded pianist who many have suggested as Beethoven's...

Only a handful of Schreivogel's compositions for his instrument have survived. Among them is this sparkling three-movement sonata for violin and continuo in E flat major, evidently composed late in hi...

It is one of numerous concertos by Vivaldi known to have been played by Anna Maria, the most celebrated of the many remarkable performers produced by the Ospedale della Pieta, the Venetian charitable...

These 50 variations are based on a Gavotte by Arcangelo Corelli. Each variation is a small etude developing an important element of violin technique.

A solemn introductory Grave where the solo violin occasionally breaks out from the repeated chords with short cantabile sections, is followed by a fluent Allegro with difficult sounding passage work,...

Since it does not appear in Ottoboni's Trattenimenti poetici and fails to exhibit one of his most consistent stylistic 'trademarks' the use of end-rhyme throughout the recitative stanzas (i. e. , not...

Der Geburtstag der Kasseler Komponistin Luise Greger, um 1930 "Deutschlands bedeutendste lyrische Tondichterin der Gegenwart", jährt sich am 27.12.2012 zum 150. Mal. Das kompositorische Schaffen von L...

This is an example of a cantata morale a cantata that, for once, does not explore the pleasures and pains of love among the shepherds and nymphs of Arcadia but offers timeless advice on moral conduct....

The cantata's subject, treated with a soupçon of humour and originality (by being combined with the unrelated theme of sleep), is the familiar one of a lover protesting his fidelity to his beloved. Th...

The poetic theme of the cantata is the well-worn one of unrequited love. In the opening aria, the singer challenges the God of Love to battle. This is a true aria di battaglia in which the singer mimi...

This cantata, from an important manuscript in Berlin containing 18 Albinoni cantatas for soprano and continuo, is distinguished not only by its music, which is exceptionally finely wrought and ends wi...