GIUSEPPE TARTINI

 

Sonatas for Solo Violin and Violin and Soprano

 

1. Anonyme, “Lieto ti prendo e poi” (Aria del Tasso) Sonate XVII en Ré Maj / D Maj / D Dur

2. Andante cantabile “Di se senti”

3. Allegro assai

4. Aria del Tasso

5. Furlana

6. Anonyme “Depon Clorinda le sue spoglie inteste” Sonate XXIV en Ré Maj / D Maj / D Dur

7. Andante cantabile “Care dell’idol mio”

8. Allegro assai

9. Aria cantabile “Alla stagion novella”

10. Presto “Amico il fato, guidami in porto”

11. “Amico il fato” Sonate XIII en si min / b min / h moll

12. Andante “Quanto mai felici siete”

13. Allegro assai

14. Giga,allegro affettuoso

15. Anonyme “Intanto Erminia fra l’ombrose piante” Sonate (Brainard A3 ) en la min / a min / a moll

16. Cantabile

17. Allegro

18. Allegro

19. Giga

20. Tema con variazioni

21. Paolo Rolli, “Solitario bosco ombroso” Sonate II en si min / b min / h moll

22. Siciliana

23. Allegro

24. Allegro affettuoso

25. Giuseppe Tartini, “Solitario bosco ombroso.”

 

Chiara Banchini - violin

Patrizia Bovi - soprano

 

Chiara Banchini has never concealed her admiration for Giuseppe Tartini. The musical, intellectual and aesthetic care she has lavished on this recording is ample proof of her devotion to his music. Tartini developed a genuine system of thought founded on Nature - physical phenomena perceptible by our senses and determined by mathematical rules. He did not seek to imitate the natural world through its sounds and other outward manifestations, but aimed at aesthetic concepts of much greater sophistication and coherence, through the use of folksongs (notably those of the gondoliers with their references to Tasso and Ariosto), compositional techniques following poetic metres, and musical themes directly inspired by quotations from the verse of Metastasio, Petrarch, and others.

 

To guide us into this poetic atmosphere, Chiara Banchini has called on the voice of Patricia Bovi to evoke the gondoliers’ songs so characteristic of the Venetian memories of Goethe and Rousseau, and asked the musicologist Stefano Aresi to present in the booklet the synaesthetic ideal to which Tartini aspired. Each piece of music is illustrated by an evocative poem or painting.

 

Digibox with 40-page full colour booklet in English, French, and Italian.

 

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