"Souvenirs d'Italie". The Travel Diaries of Count Harrach: Naples, Concertos and Sonatas
Maurice Steger
1h12
1 CD
HMC902253
Apple Music
Charles de Brosses wrote that, in Naples, musical tastes change every ten years or so! That variety of tastes and colours is the hallmark of this recording devoted to the staggeringly virtuosic music for recorder brought back from Italy by a nobleman sent there by the Emperor as Habsburg Viceroy in Naples. Hasse, Vinci, Sammartini, and the less familiar names of Piani, Fiorenza, Leo and Sarro represent these souvenirs of a six-year gilded exile, which Count Harrach preserved in his precious manuscripts.
GIUSEPPE SAMMARTINI [1695-1750] Recorder Concerto, in F Major · Allegro (3'49) · [Siciliana] (5'48) · Allegro assai (3'21) LELIO COLISTA [1629-1680] · Sinfonia a 3 (5'33) JOHANN ADOLF HASSE [1699-1783] Recorder Sonata, in B Flat Major · [Allegro] (2'31) · Adagio (4'48) · Allegro (2'27) DOMENICO SARRO [1679-1744] Recorder Concerto, in D Minor · Amoroso (4'28) · Adagio (1'40) · Allegro (1'22) ANTONIO CALDARA [c. 1671-1736] · Ciaccona a 3 (4'49) LEONARDO VINCI [c. 1696-1730] Overture & Song from the Opera Elpidia · Allegro (1'49) · Adagio (0'42) · Allegro (1'26) · "Tortora che il suo bene". Larghetto (2'11) LEONARDO LEO [1694-1744] · Toccata XIII for cembalo, in C Major (1'10) NICOLA FIORENZA [c. 1700-1764] Recorder Sonata, in A Minor · Amoroso e Largo (2'07) · Allegro (1'27) · Largo (2'15) · Allegro (1'01) ANTONIO MARIA MONTANARI [1676-1737] Recorder Concerto, in B Flat Major · Allegro (2'20) · Adagio (3'11) · Allegro (2'04) GIOVANNI ANTONIO PIANI [1678-after 1759] Recorder Sonata, No.4, in D Major · Preludio. Grave é affettuoso (2'12) · Corrente. Allegro é spiccato (1'52) · Aria. Allegro (0'42) · Andante (4'09) · Allegro (1'25)
