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Release Date: 09 January 2026
Label: Warbling Quire
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0744365353875
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Denis Delair
Description
warblingQUIRE Records Ltd proudly presents a world premiere recording consisting of a set of seven violin sonatas written for violin and continuo and attributed to a French Baroque theoretician and composer named Denis Delair (the last of the seven sonatas was written for two violins and continuo). The early music world knows Delair as the author of an important treatise on harmony and basso continuo (1690), but his compositions had not been located in the modern era (until now). Members of the ensemble, The Levee, identified a manuscript purporting to be Delair's Violin Sonatas in the collection of Uppsala University in Sweden (the Duben Collection). This collection is an enormous compendium of original manuscripts maintained by a group of Swedish court musicians from roughly 1640 to 1726. The ensemble were able to positively identify the sonatas attributed to Delair in the collection by comparing the continuo parts with Delair's treatise.
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