Release Date: 04 October 2024
Label: DUX Recording Producers
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 5902547019598
Genres: Classical Early Music
Description
This new two-disc album contains sonatas from the only surviving manuscript of Aldebrando Subissati, the Italian Kapellmeister of Polish king Jan Kazimierz. This is a collection of twenty compositions with a rather unusual structure, since most of them consist of two movements, which was not a common practice in the Baroque era. The leading instrument is the violin, accompanied by either theorbo with positive organ or viola da gamba with harpsichord.
Due to the sparse use of musical notation, on the album we hear mainly free, virtuoso interpretations; in some places the composer even suggests the performer to continue the piece according to his or her own fantasy. The performers also had to resolve the harmonic dissonances between the solo part and the basso continuo, since the sonatas come from a period when the major-minor tonality was not fully formed yet.
With finesse and a fair amount of personal invention, the artists shape a new face of a forgotten composer.
'These pieces are as good as the best that was written in his time by other Italian composers. They are served extremely well by Joanna Morska-Osinska and her colleagues. This is high-class violin playing, and the strong contrasts and many effects in these sonatas are explored to the full. […] The various combinations of instruments work wonderfully well. This set deserves a special recommendation.' — Music Web International
Tracklisting
Tomasz Skweres, Ensemble Reconsil, Osterreichisches Ensemble fur Neue Musik, Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej
Aukso - Chamber Orchestra Of The City Of Tychy, Camerata Silesia Katowice City Singers' Ensemble, M
Rafal Janiak, Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the Lodz Grand Theatre
Milosz Maczynski
Kacper Nowa, Lukasz Krupinski
Joanna Morska-Osinska
Ewa Gawronska, Various Artists
Altberg Ensemble, Jorg-Andreas Botticher
Consort of Musicke, Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley
Joanna Morska-Osinska
Il Giardino Armonico; LSO cond. Hamilton Harty
Ensemble Jerycho, Bartosz Izbicki
Klaus Haidl
The Viadana Collective, Maximilien Brisson
Sollazzo Ensemble, Anna Danilevskaia
Lina Tur Bonet, Musica Alchemica
