Muffat: Propitia Sydera: Concerti Grossi

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Release Date: 3rd Oct 2011
Catalogue No: STR33897
Label: Stradivarius
Length: 56 minutes

Muffat, Georg: Concerto No. 8 in F major: Coronatio Augusta

Work length9:45

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La Concordanza
Irene de Ruvo

I. Sonata. Grave

Track length1:37

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II. Allemanda - Largo

Track length3:20

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III. Grave

Track length1:22

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IV. Gavotta. Alla breve ma non presto

Track length1:10

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V. Rondeau - Allegro

Track length2:16

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Muffat, Georg: Concerto No. 9 in C minor: Victoria Maesta

Work length9:36

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La Concordanza
Irene de Ruvo

I. Sonata. Grave - Allegro

Track length2:23

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II. Aria - Allegro

Track length2:42

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III. Grave

Track length2:05

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IV. Sarabanda - Adagio

Track length1:18

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V. Borea

Track length1:08

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Muffat, Georg: Concerto No. 11 in E minor: Delirium Amoris

Work length7:57

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La Concordanza
Irene de Ruvo

I. Sonata. Grave - Allegro

Track length0:53

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II. Ballo - Allegro

Track length1:22

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III. Grave - Presto

Track length2:10

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IV. Menuet. Allegro

Track length2:04

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V. Giga

Track length1:28

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Muffat, Georg: Violin Sonata in D Major

Work length12:10

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Stefano Rossi, Irene de Ruvo

Muffat, Georg: Concerto No. 12 in G major: Propitia Sydera

Work length16:53

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La Concordanza
Irene de Ruvo

I. Sonata. Grave - Allegro

Track length2:14

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II. Aria - Largo

Track length2:28

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III. Gavotta. Alla breve a presto

Track length0:44

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IV. Grave

Track length0:53

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V. Ciacona. Un poco grave

Track length9:29

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VI. Borea - Allegro

Track length1:05

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In the preface to his Concerti Grossi, Muffat himself wrote about his musical studies in Paris, between 1663 and 1669 and of J. B. Lully among his mentors and masters of this art of music. Afterward Muffat was in Rome in order to perfect his organ-playing under Bernardo Pasquini, the brilliant and world-famous harpsichordist and organist of the time. He met and was greatly influenced by Arcangelo Corelli, and had the opportunity of listening to his music and in particular to his Concerti. Muffat’s Concerti Grossi were thus first inspired in Italy, in the Roman literary salons in which Corelli and Pasquini used to perform. In particular, they were inspired by the Church and Chamber sonate à tre composed and most probably performed in Rome by Corelli. The 1701 preface contains just as much information on the performance practice and concertation: these indications tell us how freely the number of parts were considered, always depending on the number of performers and therefore whether or not the parts could be doubled. Muffat also tells us of the composition of his concertino, a group of chosen performers that may include also wind instruments, typically French and bequest of Muffat’s French studies. However, the use of winds together with strings tells us more about the author’s aesthetical taste and more generally about baroque and tone variety: they contrast and juxtapose strings in a dialogue and an ever new and different collision. In the present recording the basso continuo is realized using harpsichord, harp, cello and violone following the indications for variety and full-bodied sound, both for the tutti and for the soli.

The CD includes also the Sonata for violin solo, which has an extremely free formal structure, incredibly original, in the Italian manner, alternating melodic movements (theme), rhythms (allegro fugato) and sections in a stylus phantasticus (adagio).

Muffat: Propitia Sydera

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