Profane music: dances, songs, instrumental, sometimes cheerful, sometimes melancholic, from all parts of Europe.
Profane music. French traditional songs and a dance, followed by Venetian contrasts on an imaginary festive evening, full of surprises: with sonatas, a symphony and dances from the 17th century. A bit later in that century, we encounter Biber with some ‘violin virtuoso’ works, and jump to the 18th century with Giuseppe Sammartini.
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1 Valse d’Emile Benoît
2 Le 10 d’Avril
3 Le combat de La Danae
Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer en La Nef olv. Sylvain Bergeron
(CD La Traverse Miraculeuse, ACD2 2588)
Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665)
4 Ballo detto Eccardo (Canzoni overo sonate concertate op.12, (1637)
Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690)
5 Prosa pro mortuis “Dies Irae”; Ingemisco
Salamone Rossi (1570-1630)
Sinfonie e gagliarde (book 1, 1607):
6 Sinfonia grave
7 Gagliarde detta la massara
8 Gagliarda a 5 detta la Norsina
Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589-1630)
9 Sonata for solo instruments and b.c. no.16 (1641)
Ensemble les Surprises conducted by Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboules
(CD Nuit à Venise, Alpha Classics ALPHA 927, 2023)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704)
10 From Harmonia artificioso-ariosa (1712): Partita I, parts I to IX
Les Passions de l’Áme conducted by Meret Lüthi
(CD Variety, the Art of Variation, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 1975919572, 2019)
Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750)
11 Overture for orchestra, op.7, no.6 in G major
– I Allegro assai
– II Andante
– III Minuetto allegro
Les Muffatti conducted by Peter Van Heyghen
(CD Concertos & Overtures, Giuseppe Sammartini, Ramée RAM 1008, 2011)
In addition:
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
12 From Harmonia artificioso-ariosa (1712): Partita I, part X
Les Passions de l’Áme conducted by Meret Lüthi
Courtesy of Muziekweb.
