Settecento  Italiano baroque trio

with period instruments

Andrea Ortu traverso flute

Claudio Frigerio cello

Milena Frige' harpsichord

  

First Programme

Musical journey in Italy

 

The composers inside into this first programme was members of the most important italian schools of XVIII.  (Rome, Neaples, Milan and Venice). A journey trhough the italian chamber music for flute.
 
 

First Part
    G. B. SAMMARTINI           Sonata in D  for flute with a thorough bass
    A. VIVALDI                       Sonata in e minor for cello and harpsicord
    R. VALENTINI                  Sonata in e minor for flute with a thorough bass

Second Part
    J. A. HASSE                       Sonata n° 1 op. 5 for flute with a thorough bass
    D. SCARLATTI                  Three Sonatas for harpsicord
    G. PLATTI                         Sonata in e minor for flute with a thorough bass
 

For all the XVIII italian music lived a splendour historical moment. In all of the European Courts, Italians composers was esteemed and in this way others composers and the people knew italian style.
 
 

First Part
R. VALENTINI                Sonata in e minor for flute with a thorough bass
(English composer, he also changed own name to be fully italian. He wrote in a perfect italian style )
G. B. SOMIS                     Sonata for cello and harpsicord
(Music Composer for the Count of Carignano in Parigi)
G. PAGANELLI                Sonata in C for flute with a thorough bass
(Music Composer in the court of Braunschweig and  in the court of Margravia Guglielmina in Bayreuth)
 
Second Part
F. GEMINIANI                Sonata in D for flute with a thorough bass
(Manager of the Haymarket Theatre in London)
D. SCARLATTI               Three Sonatas for harpsicord
(Music Composer in the court of the King of Portugal in Lisbona and Madrid)
G. PLATTI                       Sonata in e minor for flute with a thorough bass
("virtuoso of chamber" for the Prince Carlo Federico Bishop in Würzburg)