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Platti: 6 Sonatas for Violoncello and Basso continuo (1725)

9/6/2011, 24 Tracks, 59:01

Featuring

  • Sebastian Hess
  • Axel Wolf
  • Giovanni Benedetto Platti

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Performer Biography

Sebastian Hess, the baroque violoncello soloist, was among the few master class students selected by Mstislav Rostropovich at the International Cello Festival in Kronberg in 1997.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Axel Wolf, who performs on lute and theorbo, has a wide range of musical activities, from solo performance to chamber music and continuo in the opera pit.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Platti, the composer, had a particular fondness for counterpoint, as evidenced by the final fast movement of the Sonata terza, which is conceived as a fugue.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Giovanni Benedetto Platti, born in Italy, moved to Würzburg in April 1722 to serve as an oboist for Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The six sonatas on this album are part of a larger collection of over 60 works Platti composed for Rudolf Franz Erwein von Schönborn, a passionate cellist and brother of Platti's employer.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Platti's sonatas on this album generally follow a four-movement structure of slow-fast-slow-fast, with most movements having two repeated parts.

Source: Booklet

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