Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th at 19.30:XNUMX pm Anglican Church, Dissonanzen presents Tommaso Rossi, on recorders, recorder and transverse flute, and Enrico Baiano on harpsichord in a two-day event dedicated to the Complete Flute Sonatas by Handel. Composer who, together with Bach, sums up the greatness of Baroque music.
A musician of great inspiration, persuasive in his themes, versatile in his expression. The sonatas for solo instrument, and therefore also those for flute, formally recall the sonata da chiesa and the sonata da camera of Italian style and are divided into four main movements to which are sometimes added dance rhythms, such as the minuet, the giga and the Sicilian, which seem to testify to the influence exerted by the music of our country on the imagination of Handel, who, as is known, stayed for more or less long periods of time in Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples, the latter city that welcomed him with particular enthusiasm in June 1708 and affectionately renamed him with the name of 'Saxon'.
"The corpus of Handel's flute sonatas has been the object of study of musicologists for years because it poses a series of problems linked to the determination of its exact coordinates both with respect to the exact number of sonatas and with respect to their temporal placement”.
Tommaso Rossi explains “An established fact is that in 1724 a collection entitled Twelve Sonatas or Solos for the German Flute, Hautboy or Violin Composed by GF Handel was published in London by the publisher Walsch. In this collection the I, V, IX sonatas are in fact for Traversa, therefore for transverse flute, while at the beginning of the II, IV, VII and XI sonatas there is the indication Flauto solo, which clearly alludes to the recorder, or the recorder. The other five sonatas are intended either for the violin or the oboe.
To this set of Sonatas are added other compositions that, over the years, have been found in European manuscript collections. For the performance in two concerts of this extraordinary repertoire we decided with Enrico Baiano to eliminate, as far as possible, the duplicates and to give the sonatas their cataloguing number that follows the HändelWerkeVerzeichnis edited by BerndBaselt".
Article published on 9 June 2022 - 16:37
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