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Exhausted, Ariadne fell asleep. She is dreaming, probably about the Labyrinth. Her sleep is agitated, her dream confused, incoherent. Ariadne is not safe. Even in sleep, she is afraid of something. I,...

The structural focus of this work is the gradual process of inversion of a simple musical phrase. But the ‘polar inversion' referred to in the title has a meaning beyond the purely musical, sugg...

The work has an exciting international future then, one which will be further established by the launch, at the Royal Greenwich International Festival in November 2017, of Fontanella's third album The...

An intimate musical dance for two.

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,...

Boismortier has imbued his Op. 28 sonatas with the same elegance, melodic and harmonic interest, and contrapuntal ability that characterise his other 'Italian' trio sonatas, and the works are technica...

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...

Partly on account of their instrumentation, the Op. 18 sonatas are closely modelled on Corelli's Opp. 1-4, both in terms of style and violin technique. Each consists of four or five movements, at leas...

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's [VI] Sonates en Trio Pour deux Violons avec la Baße Op. 18, which appeared in 1727, are veritable gems of high baroque French instrumental music.

Iberian Refractions was written in response to a piece of Old Hispanic medieval chant, which gradually works its way into the music movement by movement. The chant melody infiltrates all aspects of th...

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...

This double concerto displays Valentini's originality in development of musical form and thematic material. The ritornello from the second movement Allegro is appended to the final Presto giving the c...

These works contain some of Boismortier's finest and most accomplished music. Written in the 'Italian' style, they are an extension of his sonata writing for one or two instruments and continuo, and y...

The chaconne was particularly dear to French baroque composers, from Lully to Leclair, from Marais to Rameau, and Boismortier was no exception. In one of his most original works, the Quinque sur l'oct...

The ten Passagagli are Francone's only known compositions. The term ‘violoncello' in the collection's title, one of the earliest occurences within the Neapolitan repertory, is problematic: the music i...

You are trying to remember an image. Only details come back to your mind. From those details, you must reconstitute the whole. You memory is blurred. You mix memories, you believe that what is merely...