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Flights Of Fantasy: Early Italian Chamber Music

Irish Baroque Orchestra / Huggett

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Format: CD

Cat No: AV2202

Release Date:  13 September 2010

Label:  Avie

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  822252220223

Genres:  Classical  

  • Description

    'Flights of Fantasy' presents Monica Huggett and her Irish Baroque Orchestra exploring the remarkable range, diversity and whimsy of Italian baroque chamber music.

    Think you know Italian baroque chamber music? Think again. The range, diversity – and even wackiness – is remarkable, as illustrated by Flights of Fantasy, an album of acute inventiveness by Avie stalwart Monica Huggett and the chamber soloists of her Irish Baroque Orchestra. Take Carlo Farina's Capriccio Stravagante, which translates as "outlandish whim", and imitates barking dogs, meowing cats and gunfire. More serious, but no less virtuosic, experimental forms occur in works by Marini, Castello, Legrenzi, and Cavalli – the Venetian best known for his operas – all heard on this album.

    Created in 1996, the period-instrument Irish Baroque Orchestra occupies a fundamental place in Ireland's musical landscape. Ten years in, the mantle of artistic director was assumed by Monica Huggett, who has created a decades-long career of critically acclaimed and award-winning recordings, including the Billboard chart-topping, Grammy-nominated Bach Orchestral Suites on Avie (AV2171).


  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Dario Castello: Sonata decimaquarta à 4, due soprani e due tromboni overo violete
      • 2. Carlo Farina: Capriccio Stravagante
      • 3. Francesco Cavalli: Sonate à 6 (1656)
      • 4. Biagio Marini: Passacaglio à 4
      • 5. Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Harmonia Artificiosa Partia VI
      • 6. Giovanni Legrenzi: La Fugazza Sonate à 5 (1671)
      • 7. Giovanni Legrenzi: Sonata Seconda à sopran solo
      • 8. Antonio Bertali: Sonata à 5
      • 9. Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi: Canzona Terza (1627/1637)
      • 10. Dario Castello: Sonata decima sesta à 4 per stromenti d'arco

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