Al Ayre Espanol & Eduardo Lopez Banzo
Release Date: 12 April 2019
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917279726
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Al Ayre Espanol, conducted by Eduardo Lopez Banzo, completes the survey of Handel's Trio Sonatas with this innovative recording of Opus 2. An introspective version that is a combination of contained lyricism and explosive fury.
Under the title I vanni occulti, ensemble Al Ayre Espanol, led by maestro Eduardo Lopez Banzo, offers us its personal vision of Handel's Sonatas Op. 2. The phrase comes from the oratorio Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (The Triumph of Time and Disillusion, 1707). The reference to this aria is not anecdotal, because Sonata No. 1 in this Op. 2 contains references to this music — an aspect that, hardly surprisingly, constitutes a characteristic element of the composition technique of the maestro from Halle. Over the course of his life, Handel composed 20 trio sonatas, 12 of which were published in London in two different collections: six sonatas were published in 1733 as Op. 2 (HWV 386–391) and another seven printed in 1739 as Op. 5 (HWV 396–402). In a disguised allusion to the vanitas allegory and the fleeting passage of time, Al Ayre Espanol presents, just three years after its recording of Op. 5 [Challenge Classics, CC72663], an introspective version of Op. 2, which completes and, at the same time, complements the group's first rendition of Handel's trio sonatas. The two recordings form a single project that offers the listener a passionate and impassioned, southern and Mediterranean version of this exquisite chamber music. This version is marked by the emergence, with particular expressive intensity, of the two aesthetic poles present in the chamber music universe of Handel (and of López Banzo himself): the most contained lyricism combined with the most explosive fury.
Artists:
Al Ayre Espanol
Alexis Aguado - Violin
Kepa Artetxe - Violin
Guillermo Turina - Cello
Xisco Aguiló - Double bass
Eduardo López Banzo - Harpsichord
Tracklisting
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Aart Bergwerff
Roberto Prosseda
Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dejan Lazic, Jan Willem de Vriend
Ton Koopman
Duo Saraswati
Al Ayre Espanol & Eduardo Lopez Banzo
Al Ayre Espanol & Eduardo Lopez Banzo
