Who could have imagined that London would become the capital of Italian opera in the early eighteenth century? The 1720s witnessed a feverish demand for music that led many foreign virtuosos to move to the city. Concert-loving Londoners relished the last sonatas in the style of the old master Corelli, the first recorder and flute concertos, and the works of the youthful newcomer Handel . . . Let us admire this lively scene with the musicians of La Rêveuse, in their first recording for harmonia mundi!
WILLIAM BABELL
Concerto II Op. 3 for sixth flute D major / Ré majeur
(London, 1730, John Walsh)
· I. Adagio - Allegro (2'11)
· II. Adagio (3'02)
· III. Allegro (3'13)
FRANCESCO GEMINIANI
Sonata IV op. 1, H. 4
D major / Ré majeur
(London, 1716 / London 1718, Richard Meares / London, 1719, John Walsh / Amsterdam, 1719, Jeanne Roger)
Adagio
· I. Adagio (1'47)
· II. Allegro (2'30)
· III.Grave (1'07)
· IV.Allegro (1'41)
ARCANGELO CORELLI [1653-1713]
Sonata IV op. 6after / d'après lesConcerti grossi nos. 1 & 2 op. 6
F major / Fa majeur
(Amsterdam, 1719, Jeanne Roger / Londres, 1720, John Walsh)
· I.Largo - Allegro - Adagio - Allegro - Adagio - Allegro - Adagio (2'28)
· II.Allegro (1'52)
· III.Grave - Andante Largo (2'05)
· IV.Allegro (2'11)
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL [1685-1759]
Concerto a quattro
D minor / Ré mineur
(c. 1715, Collection Graf von Schönborn - Wisentheid / Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt - Mus. ms 1042/45)
· I.Adagio (2'13)
· II.Allegro (1'41)
· III.Largo (1'36)
· IV.Allegro (2'03)
JOHANN CHRISTIAN SCHICKHARDT
Concerto II op. 19 for 2 recorders, 2 traversos [orig. 4 recorders] and basso continuo
Transp. to A minor / La mineur
(Amsterdam, nd, 1712-15 Etienne Roger & Michel Charles Le Cene)
· I.Allegro (2'13)
· II.Adagio (4'02)
· III.Vivace (1'39)
· IV.Allegro (1'59)
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL [1685-1759]
Sonata per la viola da gamba HWV 364b
G minor / Sol mineur
(Londres c. 1730, John Walsh. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Mu. MS 261)
· I.Andante larghetto (2'04)
· II.Allegro (1'58)
· III.Adagio (0'47)
· IV.Allegro (2'19)
· Spera si mio caro bene
Aria in B minor, arr. from Admeto HWV 22, opera, 1727
(Handel's Select aires or Sonatas [.], collected from all the late Operas. Londres, nd, 1738 ou 1743, John Walsh) (7'15)
NICOLA FRANCESCO HAYM
· Nicola Francesco Haym (1678-1729) arr. Pietro Chaboud (fl.1707-25)
Thus with thirst my souls expiring
Aria in A minor, adaptation for the London stage from Il Pirro e Demetrioby Alessandro Scarlatti
(Aires & Symphonys, Londres, c. 1710, John Walsh) (5'00)
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