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* TRIO SONATA FOR TWO VIOLINS, VIOLONCELLO & HARPSICHORD *
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Giuseppe Dall’Abaco (1710–1805) was the son of Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco (1675–1742), and like him had a successful career as a cellist, concertmaster and composer spent mostly in the service of high-ranking members of the Wittelsbach dynasty in south-west Germany (Munich for Evaristo Felice, Bonn for Giuseppe). The family hailed from Verona in the Venetian republic, where Evaristo Felice was born and to which Giuseppe retired in later life. The elder Dall’Abaco has been regarded as an excellent composer ever since the late nineteenth century, but the revival of Giuseppe’s music, centred on his numerous works for cello, is much more recent.
TWO VIOLINS, VIOLONCELLO & HARPSICHORD
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Giuseppe Dall’Abaco's sole surviving trio sonata, published here for the first time, reveals his absolute mastery of the craft of composition as applied to ensemble music. It is highly melodious, exceptional in its command of harmony and counterpoint and beautifully structured. Violinists will relish the way in which the first and second instruments share the main musical material equally, weaving fascinating patterns as they do so.
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ed. Michael Talbot
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* OVERTURE TO THE JOVIAL CREW *
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William Bates (c.1732–1778) was a leading figure in the area of vocal music for the London stage and pleasure gardens in the 1760s and 1770s, but he also produced two important collections of instrumental music: six trio sonatas around 1757 and six concertos including horns in 1762. His greatest asset as a composer was his exceptionally wide stylistic range. He was as comfortable when writing imposing fugues as he was when evoking the cheerful bluffness of the English country dance, and his harmonic and rhythmic invention compel admiration.
These qualities are fully evident in the concise three-movement overture scored for a typical theatre orchestra including oboes and horns that he wrote as his first essay in music for the stage: the extraordinarily successful ballad opera The Jovial Crew, which, premiered at Covent Garden in 1760, held the English stage for over three decades. Much of the overture is tuneful and simple, in the tradition of ballad operas, but flashes of complex counterpoint and imaginative touches in the scoring elevate it to the level of Bates’s sonatas and concertos.
Format: Instrumental parts
Duration: c.10'
Series: Baroque
Code: HH623.IPT Digital download PDF
Price: £35.00
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* RECENTLY IDENTIFIED MOTET *
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In August 2024 Michael Talbot identified as compositions by the Venetian monk and composer Diogenio Bigaglia (1678–1745) eight anonymous motets for voice (soprano or contralto), solo violin and basso continuo contained in an album of music for that combination compiled in 1739 for the young Bavarian duchess Maria Antonia Walpurgis (herself on the way to achieving fame as a singer, harpsichordist and, especially, composer). Bigaglia had established a connection to the Bavarian court in Munich as early as 1713, when Maria Antonia’s grandmother, Therese Kunigunde Sobieska, then living in temporary exile in Venice, obtained copies of cantatas by him. These expansive motets, which test the ability of singer and violinist alike, are remarkable for their musical eloquence and inventiveness. They display the same fine sense of line and imaginative treatment of musical structure as in his chamber duets (published earlier by Edition HH), with the important difference that the contrast between the timbres and technical capabilities of the two upper parts can here be fruitfully exploited.
SOPRANO, VIOLIN & BASSO CONTINUO
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Michael Talbot’s editions of the motets include commentaries on their Latin texts, for which line-by-line English translations are supplied, and add or supplement the bass figures of the continuo part as an aid to those intending to improvise an accompaniment. A specimen continuo realization for chamber organ or harpsichord is provided for the use of those who prefer to play ‘from the notes’.
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ed. Michael Talbot
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Nocturne
is included in the Grade 6 Piano syllabus of the ABRSM
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| Den lille danserinnen (‘The Little Ballerina’) evokes a charming, gracious, light-footed dancer, while Nocturne makes the piano sing in the romantic tradition. Both these delightful short pieces would be ideal encores!
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"I love these two little pieces, and I am sure many late intermediate players will enjoy them equally."Read Andrew Eales's review in Pianodao
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