8424562235267

Charles Avison: Concerti Grossi (Based On Scarlatti)

Tiento Nuovo; Ignacio Prego

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Format: CD

Cat No: GCD923526

Release Date:  23 April 2021

Label:  Glossa

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  8424562235267

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

  • Description

    The imaginative musician that is harpsichordist Ignacio Prego directs a new selection of the concerti grossi by Charles Avison drawing inspiration from keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. "A rewarding set of concertos." BBC Radio 3 Record Review The Madrid-born Prego is alive to the variety of musical ideas embedded in these concertos – four of the concertos "after Scarlatti" that Avison had published in 1744: each concerto, with the ensemble divided into concertino and ripieno groups, is a sequence of movements, the appealing, lively, melodious and playful contrasting with the slow, light, restful and contemplative. Added to Avison's inventiveness and freshness are Prego and his ensemble's creativity and sensitivity, especially in matters of ornamentation. Italian music had great popularity in Britain at the time and Avison himself had studied with Francesco Geminiani. Avison also rode the wave of the then-current "English cult of Domenico Scarlatti", adapting and transforming Scarlatti's Sonata ideas into his Grand Concertos and making them his own. Ignacio Prego and his new Spain-based ensemble Tiento Nuovo (led by Emmanuel Resche-Caserta) relish the Iberian influences pervading the concertos; these are peppered with folk-music references drawn in by Scarlatti across his more than three decades of travelling around Spain and Portugal with his patron Maria Barbara de Braganza. The solo harpsichordist in Prego – Glossa issued a warmly-received set of the Bach Goldberg Variations– is put to stirring use with the inclusion of four Scarlatti keyboard sonatas.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Charles Avison: Concerto No.9 In C Major
      • 5. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata K.87 In B Minor
      • 6. Charles Avison: Concerto No.12 In D Major
      • 12. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata K.11 In C Minor
      • 13. Charles Avison: Concerto No.5 In D Minor
      • 17. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata K.213 In D Minor
      • 18. Charles Avison: Concerto No.6 In D Major
      • 22. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata K.27 In B Minor