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Vivaldi : Sonata in sol minore per violino e continuo. (5 movements) Violin, Jean-Claude Féret Cembalo, Christine Hartley-Troskie Bassoon, Mr X
A work from the beginning of Vivaldi's production which was aboundant…Nasty fellows affirmed that he wrote 400 times the same concerto, what is rather a tough judgement, even if his production was uneven, and where realy genious pieces could be found neighbouring some others let say more commercial… That sonata here is a real little precious stone, inspite of being most evidently inspired by Corelli that had just published his own (1710) but in those days that was certainly no crime. The repeats of the movements are ornated with moreless improvised decorations, it is, by all sort of little cadences, ornaments and runs, as it was usual to do in Italy, and particularly inspired by the way Corelli himself did in concert (someone took note of all those ornaments played in concert by "il Signor Corelli" for the 6 first of his sonatas, and published it one year later (luckily for us, the SASSEM, RIAA and so on didn't exist yet!) Carried by the dash, I even ornated the repeats of the last movement (a gig), that was much less usual, but certainly not prohibited! There is still some examples of such things made in the early eighteenth by some musicians… the goal being here to finish the piece with "brio", very much in the Italian spirit, and particularly of Vivaldi. I did that recording as a verification before playing for an international competition, and there was just a cembalo in guise of "basso continuo", and so, taking it from the audio cassette to put here, I thought that it was a bit feable, especially for Italian music, that even till Mozart's times used to be rather lavish in the use of bass instruments, so I felt obliged to add some bass to the existing recording. By lack of a proper cello or gamba or bassoon, I had to content myself with the examples sounds of a bassoon, that I did cut at the right length and shaped in the proper way, and pasted at the proper places so as to sound like a proper player… quite franckly I think one could be mistaken by it, but I didn't want it to be a hoax or a fake, and so I'm telling you all about it… After all (that's my point of view) the principal is the result. |
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Giuseppe Tartini : last "sonata a violino solo" (first movement)
Barock violin : Jean-Claude Féret
The theme was probably conceived by Tartini in his youth, for a poem written during the few years of separation with his young wife… indeed, kidnapping a girl (with her agreement!) from the family of an influent cardinal, marrying her secretly, and then the escape, alone, been tracked by all policies of the kingdom, the refuge in a monastery…Only few years later was he able to return to normal life and retrieve his wife.
Those few lines, very moving, he put them in music
« Senza de ti mia cara
No che no posso star
La pena e cosi amara
Que mi fa delirar. »
He used that theme for the first movement of his last sonata, probably one of his last works too (maybe even the last!)…
And, when he was found dead (and also rather old), in his bedroom, still sitting in a big armchair with a high back, the violin having just slipped of his hands, on the side, who knows? Maybe it was also the last thing that he played.
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without you, my darling
I can't support it
The pain is so bitter
That it makes me be delirious.