Two Violins And One Guitar, Vol. 1

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Cat No: 8550409

Release Date: 12 January 2000

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 4891030504097

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Two Violins and One Guitar, Vol. 1

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2 Violins + 1 GuitarGeorg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767)Trio Sonata in A MinorJohann Rosenm??ller (c.1619 - 1684)Trio Sonata in E MinorArcangelo Corelli (1653 - 1713)Sonata da camera in D MinorJohann Adolf Hasse (1699 - 1783)Trio Sonata in C MajorDomenico Gabrieli (1651 - 1690)Balletto ?á tre Anton Diabelli (1781 - 1858)TrioThe Trio Sonata, in its various manifestations, came to be themost popular instrumental form at the close of the seventeenth century and in the firsthalf of the following century, only superseded, in course of time, by the classical stringquartet. It represented an ideal economy of means, in that it needed minimally only threeor, more usually, four performers, while capable of expansion into a full concerto grossoby the addition of ripieno players to reinforce the louder sections. As it developed theBaroque trio sonata came to encompass two generally distinguishable categories of work,the Sonata da chiesa or Church Sonata, with its alternation of slow and fastmovements, the latter generally fugal in character, and the Sonata da camera, a suite of dance movements.Most commonly the trio sonata demanded the services of fourplayers. Two melody instruments, normally violins, although publishers allowed somelatitude in the matter, however unrealistically, were supplemented by a bass melodyinstrument and a chordal instrument in the form of a harpsichord, organ or lute. It was,however, always possible to play trio sonatas without chordal filling from the keyboard orits equivalent. Published music sometimes described the second violin part as optional,although such an omission would normally be impossible. Generally trio sonatas would beissued with only three part-books, the third to be shared by keyboard-player and player ofthe viola da gamba, cello or violone. In texture they might differ between sonatas inwhich each melody instrument held a contrapuntal line and sonatas in which the lowestinstrument simply provided a harmonic basis for melodic interchange between the violins,or a close shadowing of the first by the second.Georg Philipp Telemann, godfather of Johann Sebastian Bach'sson Carl Philipp Ernanuel, who succeeded him as director of music in Hamburg in 1767,enjoyed greater fame than Bach in his own life-time. It was he who, as a student,established the Leipzig University Collegium Musicum that Bach later directed in thatcity, and it was he who was a preferred candidate for the position of Thomascantor thatBach eventually took in 1723. Telemann, descended from a family with strong clericalconnections in Lutheran Germany, was prolific and versatile as a composer, providingquantities of music, both sacred and secular, for professional and amateur use alike. Incommon with most of his contemporaries he w rote trio sonatas in modest profusion, ahundred or so in all, many of them allowing some latitude in choice of instrumentation.The Trio Sonata in A minor included in the present collection opens with a movement markedAffettuoso, a
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