Michael Talbot

Wolff's Concerto in G major for Flute, Strings and Basso Continuo encloses a wistful Largo in E minor between a stately Moderato and a sprightly, dance-like Allegretto. The solo instrument is treated...

L'opinione di Stanley Sadie, espressa nel 1963, secondo cui le due delle dodici sonate in trio di Frederick Ernest Fisher (1711/12-1760), divise equamente tra l'op. 1 (1751 ca.) e l'op. 2 (1761 ca.),...

L'opinione di Stanley Sadie, espressa nel 1963, secondo cui le due delle dodici sonate in trio di Frederick Ernest Fisher (1711/12-1760), divise equamente tra l'op. 1 (1751 ca.) e l'op. 2 (1761 ca.),...

L'opinione di Stanley Sadie, espressa nel 1963, secondo cui le due delle dodici sonate a tre di Frederick Ernest Fisher (1711/12-1760), divise equamente tra l'Op. 1 (c.1751) e l'Op. 2 (c.1761), erano...

L'opinione di Stanley Sadie, espressa nel 1963, secondo cui le due delle dodici sonate a tre di Frederick Ernest Fisher (1711/12-1760), divise equamente tra l'Op. 1 (c.1751) e l'Op. 2 (c.1761), erano...

Le sonate ordinarie per violino costituirono la spina dorsale della serie di dieci raccolte che il violinista italiano Michel Mascitti (1663/4-1760), nato nell'Italia meridionale ma residente stabilme...

Le sonate in trio di Quentin colpiscono per la padronanza di tutti gli elementi della composizione musicale, in particolare del contrappunto (le fughe sono una delle sue specialità). Mescolano element...

Le sonate in trio di Quentin colpiscono per la padronanza di tutti gli elementi della composizione musicale, in particolare del contrappunto (le fughe sono una delle sue specialità). Mescolano element...

Dei sei concerti di Cervetto rimasti manoscritti cinque sono per violoncello, ma uno, venuto alla luce solo di recente, è per flauto, essendo un abile adattamento di una sua sonata per flauto. Quest'o...

It is not often that previously unknown instrumental compositions by Albinoni (1671-1751) turn up, but Michael Talbot recently found two violin sonatas - one from the very start of his career and the...

Only a handful of Schreivogel's compositions for his instrument have survived. Among them is this impressive and forward-looking three-movement sonata for violin and continuo in E minor, evidently com...

The six trio sonatas published alongside eight violin sonatas in his Op. 4 are works in four or five movements that felicitously mix the 'church' and 'chamber' styles in various configurations. This i...

Michele Mascitti (1663/4-1760), was a Neapolitan violinist who settled in Paris in 1704. This substantial trio sonata, the only one of its type that he published (and perhaps wrote) was included in hi...

The 'divertissement' Psiché, a ten-movement suite for violin and basso continuo by Michele Mascitti (1663/4-1760), the Neapolitan violinist who did more than anyone else to acclimatize the Italian son...

Nel 1772 John Addison pubblicò a Edimburgo un volume contenente sei duetti in forma di sonate in tre o quattro movimenti per due violini non accompagnati, le sue uniche opere sopravvissute. Questi due...

They include this trio sonata written specifically for two oboes and bass. The extent to which wind instruments were cultivated in Italy in the early eighteenth century is today often not appreciated,...

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) is today best known for his concertos for strings, in which genre he was a pioneer, and for his music with solo trumpet. In his own day, however, he was equally productive...

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) was the leading composer of instrumental music in a flourishing school of composers active in Bologna in the second half of the seventeenth century and the opening decades...

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) was the leading composer of instrumental music in a flourishing school of composers active in Bologna in the second half of the seventeenth century and the opening decades...

The six trio sonatas published alongside eight violin sonatas in his Op. 4 are works in four or five movements that felicitously mix the ‘church' and ‘chamber' styles in various configurations. This i...

In Sonata 3 in F major the opening Largo is styled as a 'Siciliana', an especially common type of movement in the flute repertory on account of the instrument's pastoral associations. The following Sp...

Sonata 7 in D major opens with a sunny Andante that nevertheless has a poignant moment just before the end. The technically challenging Allegro moderato that follows bounces along airily, throwing out...

Sonata 1 in D major opens with a Larghetto full of the rhetorical kind of expression one associates with Handel. It is followed by a busy Allegro and a concise Tempo di Minuetto movement that celebrat...

The Andante opening Sonata 3, in D minor, demonstrates Balicourt's mastery of a lyricism that is entirely natural and elegant without ever becoming bland. The vivacious Allegro that follows has an end...