Gervasio / Zigiotti / Valgimigli: Sonatas for Mandolino & Basso - COMPACT DISCS

Gervasio / Zigiotti / Valgimigli: Sonatas for Mandolino & Basso - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Sonatas for Mandolino & Basso Artist: Gervasio Zigiotti Valgimigli Label: Tactus Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 8007194107111 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2019 10 04 Number of Discs: 1 About Giovan Battista Gervasio's life we have only a few, fragmentary pieces of information. We do not know the exact years or places of his birth or death, and can only surmise that he was born in Naples in the third decade of the eighteenth century,

Title: Sonatas for Mandolino & Basso
Artist: Gervasio / Zigiotti / Valgimigli
Label: Tactus Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 8007194107111
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019-10-04
Number of Discs: 1

About Giovan Battista Gervasio's life we have only a few, fragmentary pieces of information. We do not know the exact years or places of his birth or death, and can only surmise that he was born in Naples in the third decade of the eighteenth century, and that he died after 1786, year of the publication of the last printed composition of his that is available to us. The music recorded here is a performance of the six sonatas in manuscript form preserved in Uppsala and Paris, the complete corpus of Gervasio's currently known sonatas. The InchordisTrio has been performing Giovan Battista Gervasio's sonatas for mandolin and basso continuo since it's establishment, including them in it's concert programmes. It is a very interesting, sometimes even surprising, music. In spite of it's rough formal simplicity, it turns out to be particularly effective and able to evoke the eighteenth-century Neapolitan Baroque atmosphere, through a series of stylistic features that belong to the typically Neapolitan composition procedure, with melodic solutions that are enjoyable, captivating, and pleasantly engrossing for both listeners and performers. The structure of the InchordisTrio, which is formed exclusively of plucked string instruments, stimulates a performance research and a rather distinctive construction of the basso continuo, based on an alternation of accompanying instruments, of empty and full parts, of timbres, and also on little melodic exchanges between the mandolin, the archlute and the harpsichord.

Tracks:
1.1 Sonata in Re Maggiore Gimo 144~Allegro maestoso
1.2 Sonata in Re Maggiore Gimo 144~Largo Pizzicato
1.3 Sonata in Re Maggiore Gimo 144~Allegro assay
1.4 Sonata in Do Maggiore L 2767~Allegro
1.5 Sonata in Do Maggiore L 2767~Largo amoroso
1.6 Sonata in Do Maggiore L 2767~Allegro
1.7 Sonata in Re Maggiore Gimo 142~Allegro
1.8 Sonata in Re Maggiore Gimo 142~Larghetto Grazioso
1.9 Sonata in Re Maggiore Gimo 142~Allegro
1.10 Sonata in Re Maggiore L 2768~Allegro
1.11 Sonata in Re Maggiore L 2768~Largo Amoroso
1.12 Sonata in Re Maggiore L 2768~Taice alla Tedesca
1.13 Sonata in Re Maggiore L 2082~Allegro a Suo Comodo
1.14 Sonata in Re Maggiore L 2082~Minuetto al Gusto Italiano
1.15 Sonata in Re Maggiore L 2082~Gavotta - Allegretto gustoso
1.16 Sonata in Sol Maggiore Gimo 145~Allegro
1.17 Sonata in Sol Maggiore Gimo 145~Larghetto - Andantino grazioso
1.18 Sonata in Sol Maggiore Gimo 145~Allegro con molto spirito