The Contest of Apollo and Pan

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Five Sonatas from 1629 by Dario Castello, some not otherwise recorded, provide the core to their programme. They alternate between three equal parts, with two violins duetting above bass, and... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Feb 2009
Catalogue No: CHAN0756
Label: Chandos
Series: Chaconne
Length: 73 minutes

Castello, D: Sonate Concertate In Stil Moderno, Book II: Sonata No. 10

Work length5:00

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Apollo and Pan

Merula: Chiacona, Op. 3

Work length2:41

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Apollo and Pan

Castello, D: Sonate Concertate In Stil Moderno, Book II: Sonata No. 4

Work length5:45

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Apollo and Pan

Marini, B: Per ogni sorte di strumento musicale diversi generi di sonate, Op. 22: No. 21. Sonata sopra, "Fuggi dolente core"

Work length2:34

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Apollo and Pan

Bertoli: Compositioini Musicali: Sonata No. 7

Work length6:46

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Sally Holman, Steven Devine

Buonamente: Varie sonate, Book IV

Work length6:13

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Tassilo Erhardt, Ben Sansom, Steven Devine

Sinfonia

Track length1:49

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Brando

Track length1:52

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Gagliarda

Track length1:26

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Corrente

Track length1:06

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Frescobaldi: Il secondo libro di toccate, canzone, versi d'hinni, Magnificat, gagliarde, correnti, Book II: Toccata No. 1

Work length4:36

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Steven Devine

Frescobaldi: Il primo libro di 12 capricci fatti sopra diversi soggetti et arie in partitura: Capriccio Ruggiero

Work length6:31

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Tassilo Erhardt, Ben Sansom, Steven Devine

Rossi, S: Il quarto libro de varie sonate, Book IV: Sonata sopra un aria francese

Work length2:42

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Tassilo Erhardt, Sally Holman, Steven Devine

Castello, D: Sonate Concertate In Stil Moderno, Book II: Sonata No. 7

Work length5:35

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Steven Devine

Rore: Ancor che col partire (Arr. for Organ Solo)

Work length5:56

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Tassilo Erhardt, Sally Holman, Steven Devine

Castello, D: Sonate Concertate In Stil Moderno, Book II: Sonata No. 8

Work length4:35

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Apollo and Pan

Marini, B: Per ogni sorte di strumento musicale diversi generi di sonate, Op. 22: Balletto No. 1

Work length3:30

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Apollo and Pan

Castello, D: Sonate Concertate In Stil Moderno, Book II: Sonata No. 9

Work length6:57

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Apollo and Pan

Turini: Madrigali, Book I: Trio Sonata in D Minor, "E tanto temp hormai"

Work length3:44

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Apollo and Pan

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Winners of the 2001 International Early Music Network Young Artists’ Competition, Apollo & Pan is a dynamic young group which explores the numerous hitherto neglected works for violin, bassoon and keyboard from the 17th and 18th centuries, using both renaissance and baroque instruments.

Tassilo Erhardt and Sally Holman met and formed Apollo & Pan while studying at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In England they were joined by the keyboard player Steven Devine who was the winner of the inaugural Broadwood Harpsichord Competition in 1993.

The virtuoso sonatas of Dario Castello offer a synopsis of the crucial stage of development in instrumental music during the early seventeenth century. They are coupled here by dances and an anthology of the most common variations of the time. The instrumentation is particularly noted for the virtuosic writing for bassoon.

Little is known about the life of Castello apart from what can be learnt from the title pages of his collections, where he calls himself the leader of the wind band at San Marco cathedral in Venice. During the sixteenth century it was the duty of the cathedral’s second organist to arrange wind music for special ceremonies. Castello’s two collections of virtuoso instrumental music are milestones in the repertoire, and led to a considerable number of reprints during several decades after their initial publication.

The five sonatas represent the typical virtuoso sonatas of the then modern stile concertato, which implied the interaction of diverse musical forces. The second large group of pieces featured here consists of variation movements, which enjoyed their greatest popularity during the seventeenth century. Apollo & Pan here perform some of the finest and most progressive writers of the age, including Bertoli’s Sonata No.7, Merula’s ciaccona, Turini’s Sonata on E tanto tempo hormai, Marini’s Fuggi dolente core and Rossi’s Sontata on Un aria francese.

Since winning the 2001 Early Music Young Artists’ Competition, Apollo & Pan has performed at the South Bank Early Music Festival, York Early Music Festival, Spitalfields Festival and many other regional festivals across the UK. Radio 3 has broadcast their concerts and they have featured on ‘Music Restored,’ ‘In Tune,’ and ‘The Early Music Show.’ Individually, the members of Apollo & Pan play regularly with leading early music groups and period orchestras such as the The Hanover Band, I Fagiolini, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and The Parley of Instruments.

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June 2009

Five Sonatas from 1629 by Dario Castello, some not otherwise recorded, provide the core to their programme. They alternate between three equal parts, with two violins duetting above bass, and passages highlighting the delightful buzz of the dulcian. Ensemble here, as throughout, is very taut, even when pathos demands a flexing tempo.

May 2009

The performances revel in their distinctive sound world, making much of the music's textural oppositions without straying into mannerism. The wispy-toned Renaissance violins are not always spot-on with tuning, but Sally Holman's dulcian is a reliable and forthright pleasure.

The Contest of Apollo and Pan

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