Sinfonia a tre D-Dur op.9 / 7

SKU: UT.NAP-4

ISBN 9790215318373. 9 x 12 inches.

Concerto in Mi bem. magg. per Violino principale, 2 Violini, Viola e Basso; Concerto in Re min. per 2 Violini e Basso (1728); Concerto in La magg. per 3 Violini e Basso (1728)_x0008_; Concerto in La min. per 3 Violini e Basso (1727)_x0008_; Concerto in La min. per 3 Violini e Basso; Sinfonia in Fa min. a 2 Violini e Basso; Sinfonia in Sol magg. a 3 Violini e Basso; Sinfonia fugata in Fa min. a 3 Violini e Basso; Sinfonia in Do min. a 4 Violini e Basso; Trio in Si min. per 2 Violini e Cembalo

Nicola Fiorenza (1700?-1764), composer and virtuoso Neapolitan violinist, lived during the first half of the 1700s. His musical production, whose manuscripts are preserved for the big part in the Library of the Conservatorio di Musica S. Pietro a Majella in Naples, is composed of 15 concerts with different instrumental organics, 9 symphonies whose principal instrument is the violin – that sometimes proposes pieces with a lot of virtuosities typical of the solo concert –, some pieces for one or two instruments with continuo and two cantatas.
Skilled virtuoso, Fiorenza had assimilated both the style of the elegant Baroque of French school, and the a terrazze style, the improvised language typical of the Venetian composers. He knew the style of the Concerto Grosso of Corelli very well, to which he joined a dressy counterpoint maybe too much present for the style of that time. Fiorenza elaborated different styles, filtering them through his sensitive predilection towards the Neapolitan party music and the popular melody, developing a personal composite language that doesn’t consider him belonging to one of the schools of his time. From a formal point of view and for the choice of the instrumental organic, his compositions have not a strong stylistic individuality in comparison with the composite canons of the first part of the XVIII century, but the production of Fiorenza seems to reflect the schemes and the composite forms typical of the late Baroque. His choice of the incisive brevity of the thematic figures is typical of the XVII century, that almost never overcomes the breath and the circle of one or few beats. Fiorenza’s solo compositions show his research of virtuosities, but he never lapses into a rash virtuosity, on the contrary he maintains a gallant taste.

SKU: BR.MR-2239B

ISBN 9790004488478. 9 x 12 inches.

There are two known manuscript sources for the present edition of this sinfonia avanti l'opera. In the Dean and Chapter Library of Durham Cathedral it appears as the twelfth, and last, piece in a collection of late seventeenth-century Italian instrumental music. No composer is given and identification was only possible following the discovery, in 1993, of a concordant source in the Biblioteca Estense, Modena, where the work appears as the sinfonia to Perti's opera L'Inganno scoperto per Vendetta, first performed in Venice as part of the 1690/1 season.It is sometimes hard to ascertain the original functional purpose behind many of the trumpet works written by composers of the Bolognese school as it would appear that some were used as sonate da chiesa, to celebrate mass in the basilica of San Petronio, Bologna, whilst also serving as operatic sinfonie. To confuse the issue further, there are several instances of composers 'borrowing' each other's works: for example, it has recently been discovered that the Torelli trumpet sinfonia a 4 catalogued as G4 in Giegling was used as the overture to Perti's opera Nerone fatto Cesare (1693). So far as the present edition is concerned, however, stylistic considerations would appear to confirm that the work is indeed by Perti and that it was originally conceived as the overture to L'Inganno scoperto per Vendetta. A couple of clues hint at a secular raison d'etre: the Durham source is marked Serenatto (presumably a corruption of serenata, a term often used in lieu of sinfonia) and the last movement of the Modena source is marked Menuet, a term more often associated with sonate da camera than with works of ecclesiastical provenance.Both the Modena and Durham sources for the present edition are virtually note-perfect and occasional inaccuracies were easily corrected by comparing the sources with each other and with the part-books in Durham. Whilst the Modena source lacks the second violin part in the outer movements it contains fuller dynamic markings and tempi indications than the Durham source and these have been followed in the present edition with no editorial additions. Notation has been modernised and, in the piano reduction edition, right-hand arpeggio-figurations rendered more pianistic. Parts are provided for trumpet in D and B flat. I am grateful to the Dean and Chapter of Durham and to the Biblioteca Estense, Modena, for providing microfilm of the manuscripts. I should also record my thanks to Keith Wright for realising the figured-bass which appears in the full-score edition.Mark Latham, Brancepeth Castle, June 1997.

SKU: BR.MR-2239A

ISBN 9790004487877. 9 x 12 inches.

There are two known manuscript sources for the present edition of this sinfonia avanti l'opera. In the Dean and Chapter Library of Durham Cathedral it appears as the twelfth, and last, piece in a collection of late seventeenth-century Italian instrumental music. No composer is given and identification was only possible following the discovery, in 1993, of a concordant source in the Biblioteca Estense, Modena, where the work appears as the sinfonia to Perti's opera L'Inganno scoperto per Vendetta, first performed in Venice as part of the 1690/1 season.It is sometimes hard to ascertain the original functional purpose behind many of the trumpet works written by composers of the Bolognese school as it would appear that some were used as sonate da chiesa, to celebrate mass in the basilica of San Petronio, Bologna, whilst also serving as operatic sinfonie. To confuse the issue further, there are several instances of composers 'borrowing' each other's works: for example, it has recently been discovered that the Torelli trumpet sinfonia a 4 catalogued as G4 in Giegling was used as the overture to Perti's opera Nerone fatto Cesare (1693). So far as the present edition is concerned, however, stylistic considerations would appear to confirm that the work is indeed by Perti and that it was originally conceived as the overture to L'Inganno scoperto per Vendetta. A couple of clues hint at a secular raison d'etre: the Durham source is marked Serenatto (presumably a corruption of serenata, a term often used in lieu of sinfonia) and the last movement of the Modena source is marked Menuet, a term more often associated with sonate da camera than with works of ecclesiastical provenance.Both the Modena and Durham sources for the present edition are virtually note-perfect and occasional inaccuracies were easily corrected by comparing the sources with each other and with the part-books in Durham. Whilst the Modena source lacks the second violin part in the outer movements it contains fuller dynamic markings and tempi indications than the Durham source and these have been followed in the present edition with no editorial additions. Notation has been modernised and, in the piano reduction edition, right-hand arpeggio-figurations rendered more pianistic. Parts are provided for trumpet in D and B flat. I am grateful to the Dean and Chapter of Durham and to the Biblioteca Estense, Modena, for providing microfilm of the manuscripts. I should also record my thanks to Keith Wright for realising the figured-bass which appears in the full-score edition.Mark Latham, Brancepeth Castle, June 1997.

SKU: HF.7805

ISBN 9790203458043. 9 x 12 inches.

Weihnachts- Oratorium (J.S.Bach), Matthaus-Passion (J.S.Bach),J ohannes-Passion (J.S.Bach), Messe in h-Moll (J.S.Bach), Magnificat in D-Dur (J.S.Bach), Kantate Nr. 100, Nr. 209 (J.S.Bach), Cacilien-Ode (G.F.Handel), L'Allegro (G.F.Handel), Orpheus und Eruydike (Ch.W.Gluck), Iphigenie auf Tauris (Ch.W.Gluck), Iphigenie in Aulis (Ch.W.Gluck), Symphonien 1-4, 6, 16 (J.Haydn), Die Zauberflote (W.A.Mozart), Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (W.A.Mozart), Cosi fan tutte (W.A.Mozart), Don Giovanni (W.A.Mozart), Klavierkonzert d-Moll, c-Moll (W.A.Mozart), Symphonien 1-9 (L.v.Beethoven), Missa solemnis (L.v.Beethoven), Fidelio (L.v.Beethoven), Ouverture Leonore Nr. 2, Nr. 3 (L.v.Beethoven), Die Stumme von Portici (D.F.E.Auber), Preziosa (C.M.v.Weber), Oberon (C.M.v.Weber), Der Freischutz (C.M.v.Weber), Aufforderung zum Tanz (C.M.v.Weber), Die Hugenotten (G.Meyerbeer), Wilhelm Tell (G.Rossini), Der Barbier von Sevilla (G.Rossini), Die Regimentstochter (G.Donizetti),Lucia di Lammermoor (G.Donizetti),Bravour-Var iationen (A.Adam),Rom. Karneval, op. 9 (H.Berlioz),Fantast. Symphonie, op. 14 (H.Berlioz),Ein Sommernachtstraum, op. 61 (F.Mendelssohn Bartholdy), Symphonie Nr. 3, Nr. 4 (F.Mendelssohn Bartholdy), Symphnoie Nr. 1, op. 38 (R.Schumann), Der Totentanz (F.Liszt), Eine Faust-Symphonie (F.Liszt), Ungar. Rhapsodie Nr. 1, Nr. 4, Nr. 6 (F.Liszt), Polonaise Nr. 2 (F.Liszt), Mignon (A.Thomas), Rigoletto (G.Verdi), Othello (G.Verdi), Falstaff (G.Verdi), Aida (G.Verdi), Ein Maskenball (G.Verdi), Die sizilian. Vesper (G.Verdi), Symphonie Nr. 1-4 (J.Brahms), Serenade Nr. 1, op. 11 (J.Brahms), Ungar. Tanze Nr. 1-3 (J.Brahms), Variationen uber ein Thema von J.Haydn, op. 56a (J.Brahms), Violinkonzert op. 77 (J.Brahms), Trag. Ouverture, op. 81 (J.Brahms), Klavierkonzert Nr.1, Nr. 2 (J.Brahms), Ein Deutsches Requiem, op. 45 (J.Brahms).