Ensemble Castelkorn – Labyrinth Garden: Violin at the Court of Kroměříž (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Ensemble Castelkorn – Labyrinth Garden: Violin at the Court of Kroměříž (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:41 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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Prince-Bishop Carl’s musical taste was greatly influenced by the musicians of Emperor Leopold I’s Hofkapella in Vienna. The archives at Kroměříž often have unique copies of music by the court composers. In the early 1670s, Prince-Bishop Carl even began a personal correspondence with the then Vize-Hofkapellmeister, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620/23-1680), a virtuoso violinist and, at that period, also responsible for much of the official court dance music. Schmelzer’s early reputation as violinist was based on the influence of his early printed collection, Sonatæ unarum fidium (1664), and his Sonata Quarta is the longest piece. The first section of this sonata is constructed on 52 repetitions of the descending major tetrachord in D. Though Schmeltzer does not change the meter in this part of the sonata, he does incorporate two dance-like passages at its conclusion, a “Sarabande” beginning in variation 35 and a “Gigue” beginning in variation 45. The second section is almost a separate virtuoso sonata with varying tempos and meters.

Tracklist:

1-01. Ensemble Castelkorn – Balletto genandt das Narrenspitall: Nos. 1-2. Intrada di Policinelli (Aria 1 – Aria 2a) – Nos. 3-4. Intrada de Cocolini (Aria 1a – Aria 2a) (With Basso Continuo Arranged by Josef Žák et Felipe Guerra) (02:34)
1-02. Ensemble Castelkorn – Balletto genandt das Narrenspitall: No. 6. Intrada di Zani (Aria 1a) (With Basso Continuo Arranged by Josef Žák et Felipe Guerra) (01:38)
1-03. Ensemble Castelkorn – Violin Sonata in A Minor, “Cucù” (06:39)
1-04. Ensemble Castelkorn – Balletto genandt das Narrenspitall: No. 5. Intrada de Cocolini (Aria 3a) (With Basso Continuo Arranged by Josef Žák et Felipe Guerra) (01:35)
1-05. Ensemble Castelkorn – Balletto genandt das Narrenspitall: Nos. 11-12. Intrada de Graziani (Aria 1a – Aria 2a) (With Basso Continuo Arranged by Josef Žák et Felipe Guerra) (01:37)
1-06. Ensemble Castelkorn – Balletto genandt das Narrenspitall: No. 8. Intrada de Poveri (Aria 2a) (Version for Solo Theorbo by Nicolas Wattinne) (01:47)
1-07. Ensemble Castelkorn – Ciacona for Violin and Basso Continuo (14:28)
1-08. Ensemble Castelkorn – No. 1. Gzyga in E Minor (Allegro) (00:54)
1-09. Ensemble Castelkorn – No. 2. Sarabanda and Couranto in D Major (02:40)
1-10. Ensemble Castelkorn – No. 3. Gzyga I & II in A Major (02:34)
1-11. Ensemble Castelkorn – Sonatae unarum fidium – Sonata IV in D Major (Introduction – Sarabande – Guige – Allegro – Presto) (09:35)
1-12. Ensemble Castelkorn – Balletto genandt das Narrenspitall: Nos. 13-14. Intrada de Burattini (Aria 1a – Aria 2a) (01:57)
1-13. Ensemble Castelkorn – Balletto genandt das Narrenspitall: No. 9. Intrada de’ Covieli (Aria 1a) (00:45)
1-14. Ensemble Castelkorn – Balletto genandt das Narrenspitall: No. 10. Intrada de’ Covieli (Aria 2a) (Version for Solo Harpsichord by Felipe Guerra) (01:04)
1-15. Ensemble Castelkorn – Sonata violino solo representativa (Introduction. Allegro – Nachtigall – CuCu – Frosch – Adagio – Allegro. Die Henne, Der Hahn – Presto – Adagio. Die Wachtel – Die Katz – Musketier Marsch – Allemande) (10:46)

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