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Early Italian Chamber Music - Works for Recorder and Basso Continuo

2/1/2006, 14 Tracks, 1:08:20

Featuring

  • Dan Laurin
  • Masaaki Suzuki
  • Dario Castello
  • Giovanni Battista Fontana
  • Bartolomeo Montalbano
  • Giovanni Paolo Cima
  • Tarquinio Merula
  • Giovanni Bassano
  • Angelo Berardi
  • Giovanni Luca Conforti
  • Girolamo Frescobaldi
  • Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli

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Recording & Production

This album was recorded in January 2002 at the Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel in Kobe, Japan, using Neumann microphones and a Studer 952 mixer.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

The Renaissance in 14th and 15th century Florence challenged the religious hierarchy with humanist ideas, asserting humanity's free choice in shaping its own nature.

Source: Booklet

Instruments

The recorders used on this album were made by Frederick G. Morgan, Paul M. Whinray, and Tom Prescott, while the harpsichord is an Italian type by Willem Kroesbergen.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Early 17th-century sonatas, such as those by Giovanni Paolo Cima, are considered among the first of their kind and mark the 'official' birth of the genre.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Dan Laurin, a recorder virtuoso, has received numerous awards, including a Swedish Grammy and the Society of Swedish Composers' prize for best interpretation of contemporary Swedish music.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Masaaki Suzuki, a keyboard player on this album, founded the Bach Collegium Japan in 1990 and has embarked on a series of performances of J.S. Bach's church cantatas.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Renaissance composers, faced with new ideas of artistic freedom, often gave their works the simple name 'Sonata' (meaning 'something which sounds') to reflect a departure from strict mathematical or religious models.

Source: Booklet

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