Echoes from Venice

Description:

Music by Biagio Marini (1597-1665) musician in St Mark's Venice, performed by Corde - an ensemble of 13 Swedish early baroque specialists. The ensemble specialises in early baroque music from the time of Monteverdi to around 1700. The group aims to achieve a rhetorical mode of playing based on the highly advanced art of improvisation of the Renaissance.

CORDE:
Violin, solo: Ulrika Wahlberg (Westerberg)
Violin: Ingvor Edhborg, Elisabeth Bodén, Gunlög Brandin
Viola: Elisabeth Arnberg
Gamba: Olof Larsson, Louise Agnani
Organ/Harpsicord: Peter Lönnerberg, Dulcian: Mats Klingfors
Alto Trombone: Urban Wiborg, Tenor Trombone: Ivo Nilsson, Bass Trombone: Sven Larsson
Theorb/Guitar: Sven Ã…berg

Tracklist:

1. Sonata per sonar con due corde [6.46]

2. Sonata prima a 2 [4.18]

3. Sonata sopra "Fuggi dolente core" [2.33]

4. Canzon 1 a 4 [2.35]

5. La Soranza, aria [1.46]

6. Sonata in Ecco [5.15]

7. Sonata senza cadenza [2.54]

8. Canzon 7 a 6 [2.34]

9. Capriccio, che due Violini Sonata quatro parti [4.27]

10. Balleto secondo [5.08]

11. Sonata a violino e basso [3.39]

12. Sonata a tre violini [2.45]

13. La Zorzi, Sinfonia [2.44]

14. Canzon 5 a 4 [2.16]

15. Sonata La Foscarina [3.42]

16. Sonata seconda a 2 [4.02]

17. Sonata sopra la Monica [4.07]

18. Sonata variata [5.21]

Total: [67.00]

Reviews:

http://www.new-classics.co.uk/html/chamber_2.html

Listen to Marini's sonatas and canzona and note how rapidly and elegantly they switch between dance-like drama and transparent melancholy in the 17th century.

Göran Persson - Music magazine

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