Corelli: La Folia and other Sonatas
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Composer or Director: Arcangelo Corelli
Label: Hyperion
Magazine Review Date: 9/1987
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: A66226
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| (12) Trio Sonatas, Movement: G |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
| (12) Trio Sonatas, Movement: E minor |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
| (12) Trio Sonatas, Movement: A minor |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
| (12) Trio Sonatas, Movement: A |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
| (12) Sonatas for Violin/Recorder and Continuo, Movement: No. 11 in E |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Richard Campbell, Viola da gamba |
| (12) Sonatas for Violin/Recorder and Continuo, Movement: No. 3 in C |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
| (12) Sonatas for Violin/Recorder and Continuo, Movement: No. 12 in D minor, "La follia" |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
Composer or Director: Arcangelo Corelli
Label: Hyperion
Magazine Review Date: 9/1987
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: KA66226
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| (12) Trio Sonatas, Movement: G |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
| (12) Trio Sonatas, Movement: E minor |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
| (12) Trio Sonatas, Movement: A minor |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
| (12) Trio Sonatas, Movement: A |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
| (12) Sonatas for Violin/Recorder and Continuo, Movement: No. 11 in E |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Richard Campbell, Viola da gamba |
| (12) Sonatas for Violin/Recorder and Continuo, Movement: No. 3 in C |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
| (12) Sonatas for Violin/Recorder and Continuo, Movement: No. 12 in D minor, "La follia" |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
Composer or Director: Arcangelo Corelli
Label: Hyperion
Magazine Review Date: 9/1987
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 57
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CDA66226
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| (12) Trio Sonatas, Movement: G |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
| (12) Trio Sonatas, Movement: E minor |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
| (12) Trio Sonatas, Movement: A minor |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
| (12) Trio Sonatas, Movement: A |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
| (12) Sonatas for Violin/Recorder and Continuo, Movement: No. 11 in E |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Richard Campbell, Viola da gamba |
| (12) Sonatas for Violin/Recorder and Continuo, Movement: No. 3 in C |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
| (12) Sonatas for Violin/Recorder and Continuo, Movement: No. 12 in D minor, "La follia" |
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer Purcell Quartet |
Author: Lionel Salter
One of the most persistent false images of musical history has been that of Corelli as a gentle, mild player (abetted by Mainwaring's talk of his ''placid elegancies'' and perpetuated by the early Grove's insistence on his ''earnest and dignified'' style): in fact an eye-witness declared ''I never met with any man that suffers his passions to carry him away so much while he is playing. His eyes will sometimes turn as red as fire, his countenance will be distorted, his eyeballs roll as in an agony.'' It is good, therefore, to find this excellent ensemble treating him not as the marmoreal figure he is often made out to be but as a composer of spirit and energy (though without diminishing the poise of his slow movements): they are specially brilliant in the Op. 3 No. 12 sonata da chiesa, whose lengthy rapid flourishes also cast doubt on the Grove assertion that as a player he was of limited technique.
The present disc is the second of six (the first, music by Vivaldi, is available on A66193, 8/86; CD CDA66193), each focusing on a composer who wrote variations on the famous La folia air. Corelli was by no means the first to do so (the sleeve's mention of Lully as the earliest takes no account of Kapsberger and Frescobaldi, long before him), but it was through the enormous popularity of his Op. 5 solo sonatas (the twelfth of which is given over to the Iberian tune) that it became so widely adopted by others. That admirable stylist Catherine Mackintosh puts it through its paces well, but is even better in the C major solo sonata, which she plays with fluent and elaborate graces. A contemporary arrangement for gamba of Op. 5 No. 11 is something of a curiosity; but transfer to a lower register and use of the gamba's ability to play chords make for a thickish texture. Highly enjoyable are the lightness and gaiety of the Corrente and very un-French Gavotte of Op. 4 No. 3, the penultimate Allegro of Op. 5 No. 3 and the concluding Gigue of Op. 2 No. 4; and the apparently spontaneous ornamentation by the two violins (responding alertly to each other) in Op. 5 No. 3 is delightful. The recordings have been made in an agreeably warm resonant acoustic at the low pitch of A = 392.'
The present disc is the second of six (the first, music by Vivaldi, is available on A66193, 8/86; CD CDA66193), each focusing on a composer who wrote variations on the famous La folia air. Corelli was by no means the first to do so (the sleeve's mention of Lully as the earliest takes no account of Kapsberger and Frescobaldi, long before him), but it was through the enormous popularity of his Op. 5 solo sonatas (the twelfth of which is given over to the Iberian tune) that it became so widely adopted by others. That admirable stylist Catherine Mackintosh puts it through its paces well, but is even better in the C major solo sonata, which she plays with fluent and elaborate graces. A contemporary arrangement for gamba of Op. 5 No. 11 is something of a curiosity; but transfer to a lower register and use of the gamba's ability to play chords make for a thickish texture. Highly enjoyable are the lightness and gaiety of the Corrente and very un-French Gavotte of Op. 4 No. 3, the penultimate Allegro of Op. 5 No. 3 and the concluding Gigue of Op. 2 No. 4; and the apparently spontaneous ornamentation by the two violins (responding alertly to each other) in Op. 5 No. 3 is delightful. The recordings have been made in an agreeably warm resonant acoustic at the low pitch of A = 392.'
Corelli: La Folia and other Sonatas
Corelli: La Folia and other Sonatas
Corelli: La Folia and other Sonatas
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