Baroque Trio Sonatas

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Cat No: 8550377

Release Date: 12 January 2000

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 4891030503779

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BAROQUE TRIO SONATAS

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Trio Sonata in D Minor Georg PhilippTelemann (1681 - 1687) Trio Sonata in B Flat Major, Op. 5 No.5,RV 76 Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) Trio Sonata in G Major Georg PhilippTelemann (1681 - 1767) Trio Sonata in B Minor, Op. 1 No.11, RV79 Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) Trio Sonata in G Minor Johann FriedrichFasch (1688 - 1758) Trio Sonata in E Flat Major, Op. 8 No.6Giuseppe Tartini (1692 - 1770) Trio Sonata in D Minor (La follia), Op. 1Antonio Vivaldi No.12, RV 63 (1678 - 1741)The Trio Sonata, in its variousmanifestations, came to be the most popular instrumental form at the close ofthe seventeenth century and in the first half of the following century, onlysuperseded, in course of time, by the classical string quartet. It representedan ideal economy of means, in that it needed minimally only three or, moreusually, four performers, while capable of expansion into a full concertogrosso by the addition of ripieno players to reinforce the louder sections. Asit developed the Baroque trio sonata came to encompass two generallydistinguishable categories of work, the Sonata da chiesa or ChurchSonata, with its alternation of slow and fast movements, the latter generallyfugal in character, and the Sonata da camera, a suite of dance movements.Most commonly the trio sonata demandedthe services of four players. Two melody instruments, normally violins,although publishers allowed some latitude in the matter, howeverunrealistically, were supplemented by a bass melody instrument and a chordalinstrument in the form of a harpsichord, organ or lute. It was, however, alwayspossible to play trio sonatas without chordal filling from the keyboard or itsequivalent. Published music sometimes described the second violin part asoptional, although such an omission would normally be impossible. Generallytrio sonatas would be issued with only three part-books, the third to be sharedby keyboard-player and player of the viola da gamba, cello or violone. Intexture they might differ between sonatas in which each melody instrument helda contrapuntal line and sonatas in which the lowest instrument simply provideda harmonic basis for melodic interchange between the violins, or a closeshadowing of the first by the second.Georg Philipp Telemann, godfather ofJohann Sebastian Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel, who succeeded him as directorof music in Hamburg in 1767, enjoyed greater fame than Bach in his ownlife-time. It was he who, as a student, established the Leipzig UniversityCollegium musicum that Bach later directed in that city, and it was he who wasa preferred candidate for the position of Thomascantor that Bach eventuallytook in 1723. Telemann, descended from a family with strong clericalconnections in Lutheran Germany, was prolific and versatile as a composer,providing quantities of music, both sacred and secular, for professional andamateur use alike. In common with most of his contemporaries he wrote triosonatas in modest profusion, a hundred or so in all, many of them allowing s
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