Mascitti: Sonate a violino solo e basso, opera ottava Quartetto Vanvitelli

• Michele Mascitti (1664 - 1760): Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 8:
• 1 Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 8: I. Adagio 02:01
• 2 Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 8: II. Allegro 01:40
• 3 Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 8: III. Largo 02:20
• 4 Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 8: IV. Allegro 02:53
• Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 8:
• 5 Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 8: I. Larghetto 02:12
• 6 Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 8: II. Allegro 01:51
• 7 Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 8: III. Sarabanda (Larghetto) 02:29
• 8 Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 8: IV. Allegro 02:26
• 9 Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 8: V. Minuetto (Allegro) 01:09
• Sonata No. 5 in G Minor, Op. 8:
• 10 Sonata No. 5 in G Minor, Op. 8: I. Andante 02:11
• 11 Sonata No. 5 in G Minor, Op. 8: II. Allegro 02:24
• 12 Sonata No. 5 in G Minor, Op. 8: III. Largo 00:51
• 13 Sonata No. 5 in G Minor, Op. 8: IV. Corrente (Allegro) 02:25
• 14 Sonata No. 5 in G Minor, Op. 8: V. Gavotta (Allegro) 01:56
• Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 8:
• 15 Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 8: I. Larghetto 01:39
• 16 Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 8: II. Allegro 02:11
• 17 Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 8: III. Pastorale ou musette (Andante) 05:06
• 18 Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 8: IV. Allegro 00:53
• Sonata No. 7 in F Major, Op. 8:
• 19 Sonata No. 7 in F Major, Op. 8: I. Allemanda (Andante) 03:37
• 20 Sonata No. 7 in F Major, Op. 8: II. Allemanda (Allegro) 02:09
• 21 Sonata No. 7 in F Major, Op. 8: III. Allegro 03:10
• 22 Sonata No. 7 in F Major, Op. 8: IV. Larghetto e piano sempre 01:57
• Sonata No. 8 in D Major, Op. 8:
• 23 Sonata No. 8 in D Major, Op. 8: I. Allegro ma non presto 03:19
• 24 Sonata No. 8 in D Major, Op. 8: II. Sarabanda (Largo et affettuoso) 03:10
• 25 Sonata No. 8 in D Major, Op. 8: III. Corrente (Allegro) 02:44
• 26 Sonata No. 8 in D Major, Op. 8: IV. Allegro 02:03
• Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 8:
• 27 Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 8: I. Allegro moderato 01:32
• 28 Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 8: II. Corrente (Allegro ma non presto) 01:54
• 29 Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 8: III. Largo et affettuoso 02:21
• 30 Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 8: IV. Allegro 02:25
• Sonata No. 11 in A Minor, Op. 8:
• 31 Sonata No. 11 in A Minor, Op. 8: I. Allegro moderato 01:12
• 32 Sonata No. 11 in A Minor, Op. 8: II. Allemanda (Allegro) 01:49
• 33 Sonata No. 11 in A Minor, Op. 8: III. Larghetto 02:13
• 34 Sonata No. 11 in A Minor, Op. 8: IV. Allegro 01:54
• Total Runtime 01:16:06

Info for Mascitti: Sonate a violino solo e basso, opera ottava

At the beginning of the 18th century Italian instrumental music reached France and began to make its decisive impact. Michele Mascitti was a protagonist of this remarkable change. The young violinist moved from Naples to Paris where he spent most of his long life and managed to publish nine collections of instrumental music between 1704 and 1738. The extraordinary success and popularity of Mascitti’s works allowed him to live for many years as a free-lance musician and to be applauded and admired in the artistic circles of the French capital. His music brings us back to the fashionable and refined atmospheres of the Parisian aristocratic salons and to the galanterie so beautifully illustrated in the paintings of the time. The violin sonatas recorded for the first time in this CD blend the brilliant and passionate expressivity emanating from the Neapolitan legacy with the elegance and grace of the French instrumental tradition and offer an exquisite example of the new union of tastes.

Quartetto Vanvitelli

Quartetto Vanvitelli
The Quartetto Vanvitelli, born in 2017, is an Italian Baroque group composed by Gian Andrea Guerra, Nicola Brovelli, Luigi Accardo and Mauro Pinciaroli, musicians with concert activities carried out in the most important festivals of the sector such as Festival Monteverdi, MiTo, Ravenna Festival, Stresa Festiva, Roma Europa Festival, Echi Lontani, Regie Sinfonie, Grandezze e Meraviglie, Anima Mundi.

The Quartet has decided to contribute to the heritage of the baroque music by taking an interest in new music never published, recording two records for the prestigious label Arcana (Outhere Music). The quartet’s work has been enthusiastically received by the main European specialized magazines (Diapason, Musica, Amadeus, BBC Music Magazine, Deutschlandfunk, and many others). The music, the sonatas for violin and basso continuo op.8 and op.9 by Michele Mascitti, represents an idea of the Neapolitan period of the early 18th century in a surprising mix with the French style. The Mascitti sonatas are a happy synthesis of the various stylistic influences, both Italian and transalpine, assimilated by the author in the most diverse environments that have characterized his professional and human life. The melodic gesture that opens the entire collection of opera VIII, accompanied by the bass “passeggiato”, cannot help but remind us that Corelli remained the reference model for the entire compositional work of Mascitti.

In a musical path in which slow and fast movements alternate, dance movements are added or interpolated, but this is not the only pecularity: in fact to the gallant rhythms and cadences, Mascitti however also combines harmonic solutions and movements that evoke characteristics of Neapolitan vocal and instrumental music. Without doubt the role of Mascitti and other Neapolitan musicians, who at the beginning of the eighteenth century conquered the Parisian public, was decisive for the diffusion of Italian music in France and for the development of the French instrumental tradition. Already in 1713 an article on Mercure galant acknowledged its merits, stating, a little emphatically, that “Corelli, Albinoni, Michel [Mascitti] and many others have composed [so- nate] that will remain immortal and that few can equal.”

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