Veracini: Sonate da camera, Op. 2

Featuring

Fabrizio Longo
Opera Qvinta
Antonio Veracini

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Compositional Technique

The sonatas in this collection range from three to five movements, anticipating characteristics of Arcangelo Corelli's influential Opus 5 from 1700.

Composer Biography

Antonio Veracini managed the best music school in Florence and was the first director and teacher of his nephew, the renowned violinist Francesco Maria Veracini.

Compositional Technique

Veracini's Opus 2 sonatas feature a variety of forms, including fugues of semiquavers, fugues and fugatos, and lively dances like the Presto alla francese.

Composition History

Antonio Veracini's ten violin sonatas Opus 2, from 1694, were officially intended as 'practice works for beginners' but demand excellent technical skills from performers.

Recording & Production

This album presents the first complete recording of Antonio Veracini's Sonate da Camera Op. 2, originally published in Modena in 1694.

Composition History

Each of the ten sonatas in Veracini's Opus 2 is individually dedicated to a prominent member of the Tuscan elite of the time, such as Clemente Vitelli, Marquis of Bucine.

Composer Biography

Antonio Veracini, a composer active in Florence, served the Grand Duchess Vittoria Della Rovere and Prince Giovanni Battista de' Medici, dedicating his Op. 1 and Op. 3 sonatas to them.