Geminiani: Concerti Grossi (after Corelli Op 5) /AAM * Manze
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Import
CD Release Date: 2000-09-12
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Concerto No. 1 in D major: Movement 1
- Concerto No. 1 in D major: Movement 2
- Concerto No. 1 in D major: Movement 3
- Concerto No. 1 in D major: Movement 4
- Concerto No. 2 in B flat major: Movement 1
- Concerto No. 2 in B flat major: Movement 2
- Concerto No. 2 in B flat major: Movement 3
- Concerto No. 2 in B flat major: Movement 4
- Concerto No. 2 in B flat major: Movement 5
- Concerto No. 3 in C major: Movement 1
- Concerto No. 3 in C major: Movement 2
- Concerto No. 3 in C major: Movement 3
- Concerto No. 3 in C major: Movement 4
- Concerto No. 4 in F major: Movement 1
- Concerto No. 4 in F major: Movement 2
- Concerto No. 4 in F major: Movement 3
- Concerto No. 4 in F major: Movement 4
- Concerto No. 4 in F major: Movement 5
- Concerto No. 5 in G minor: Movement 1
- Concerto No. 5 in G minor: Movement 2
- Concerto No. 5 in G minor: Movement 3
- Concerto No. 5 in G minor: Movement 4
- Concerto No. 6 in A major: Movement 1
- Concerto No. 6 in A major: Movement 2
- Concerto No. 6 in A major: Movement 3
- Concerto No. 6 in A major: Movement 4
- Preludio (Largo)
- Giga (Allegro)
- Adagio
- Tempo di Gavotta (Allegro)
- Concerto No. 7 in D minor: Movement 1
- Concerto No. 7 in D minor: Movement 2
- Concerto No. 7 in D minor: Movement 3
- Concerto No. 7 in D minor: Movement 4
- Concerto No. 8 in E minor: Movement 1
- Concerto No. 8 in E minor: Movement 2
- Concerto No. 8 in E minor: Movement 3
- Concerto No. 8 in E minor: Movement 4
- Concerto No. 9 in A major: Movement 1
- Concerto No. 9 in A major: Movement 2
- Concerto No. 9 in A major: Movement 3
- Concerto No. 9 in A major: Movement 4
- Concerto No. 10 in F major: Movement 1
- Concerto No. 10 in F major: Movement 2
- Concerto No. 10 in F major: Movement 3
- Concerto No. 10 in F major: Movement 4
- Concerto No. 10 in F major: Movement 5
- Concerto No. 11 in E major: Movement 1
- Concerto No. 11 in E major: Movement 2
- Concerto No. 11 in E major: Movement 3
- Concerto No. 11 in E major: Movement 4
- Concerto No. 11 in E major: Movement 5
- Concerto No. 12 in D minor "Follia": Movement 1
- Concerto No. 12 in D minor "Follia": Movement 2
- Concerto No. 12 in D minor "Follia": Movement 3
Music reviews of Geminiani: Concerti Grossi (after Corelli Op 5) /AAM * Manze
Music Review: Understated Baroque beauty
Rating: 5 Stars
Like a great cover band, Francesco Geminiani took Arcangelo Corelli's Op. 5 Violin Sonatas and reworked them into a classic set of Concerti Grossi just like ... Arcangelo Corelli's Op. 6 Concerti. And where a composer like Antonio Vivaldi is exhuberant in his music, Corelli mumbles by comparison. His music is distinguished by its pristine tonal beauty and purity of melodic invention with a narrow tessitura and reticence in its dynamics. Geminiani, by adding embellishments and ornamentation to Corelli's sonatas as well as discrete additional composition, created a superb set of twelve Concerti that retains Corelli's purity of melodic invention while expanding their tessitura, increasing their dynamics and making them memorably beautiful. This is a superb set of Concerti, wonderfully played by Andrew Manze and the AAM. They compare favorably with Corelli's Op. 6 collection. In fact, I've played them back to back and have never found the experience to be either boring or an overindulgence. Geminiani's own music is not as memorable. This was his greatest contribution to music and it's one I strongly recommend.
Mike Birman
Description of Geminiani: Concerti Grossi (after Corelli Op 5) /AAM * Manze
Francesco Geminiani (born 1687 in Lucca, Italy; died 1762 in Dublin), a pupil of Corelli and one of the greatest violinists of his day, wrote a lot of music for his instrument, as well as a treatise on playing it. He made the orchestration of these 12 sonatas in tribute to his teacher, who would certainly have been proud if he had lived to hear them. Going far beyond mere arrangements, they seem to explore and reveal latent or unrealized intentions, adding sonorities and contrapuntal voices, enhancing character and expression. The most striking example is the famous "La Follia," where the usually hidden drama is suddenly released with a tumultuous virtuosity that foreshadows Liszt's orchestral version of Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy. The playing is stunning. Tuned a half-tone down, the strings have a lovely, pure, transparent sound that supports and surrounds the soloist with a warm shimmer; the long notes float, the fast movements are crisp and light, the rhythm and counterpoint are clear. Andrew Manze, who also writes informative, entertaining program notes, plays with spectacular virtuosity, a beautiful tone, and all-out expressive abandon and imagination, letting loose cascades of infinitely varied, inventive ornamentation. The second disc features the easier, more familiar sonatas, loved by all violin students, but transformed here into brilliant concertos. One of them is added to the first disc in Geminiani's ornamented version for violin and cello, while a cello sonata by Geminiani himself closes the program, perhaps a miscalculation, since the music is distinctly inferior to Corelli's. --Edith EislerGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Chamber Music > General
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( C ) > Corelli, Arcangelo
- ( G ) > Geminiani, Francesco
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( A ) > Academy of Ancient Music
- Forms & Genres > Concertos > Concerto Grossi
- General
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > General
- Early Music > Vocal & Song
- General
- Instruments > Strings > Violin
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Corelli, Arcangelo - Works by Corelli
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