Galuppi: Piano Sonatas

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Release Date: 13th Aug 2021
Catalogue No: 96346
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 67 minutes

Galuppi: Piano Sonata No. 2 in C minor

Work length9:34

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Fernanda Damiano

I. Larghetto

Track length2:22

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II. Allegro

Track length4:02

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III. Allegro assai

Track length3:10

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Galuppi: Piano Sonata No. 3 in A major

Work length7:49

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Fernanda Damiano

I. Andante

Track length3:00

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II. Allegro

Track length3:27

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III. Allegro

Track length1:22

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Galuppi: Piano Sonata No. 6 in E-Flat Major

Work length9:19

$3.00

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Fernanda Damiano

I. Spiritoso

Track length3:33

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II. Allegro

Track length3:19

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III. Minuet

Track length2:27

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Galuppi: Piano Sonata No. 7 in G minor

Work length9:55

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Fernanda Damiano

I. Largo

Track length4:02

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II. Presto

Track length1:53

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III. Allegretto

Track length4:00

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Galuppi: Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major

Work length12:19

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Fernanda Damiano

I. Andante

Track length6:04

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II. Allegro

Track length3:45

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III. Grazioso

Track length2:30

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Galuppi: Piano Sonata in F Major, Illy No. 12

Work length18:39

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Fernanda Damiano

I. Andantino

Track length11:42

$3.00

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II. Allegro

Track length4:02

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

III. Giga

Track length2:55

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

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· Born on the island of Burano in the Venetian lagoon, Baldassare Galuppi trained as a teenager with Antonio Lotti, first organist at the Basilica San Marco. His talents were soon in demand, and Venetian theatres engaged him as a keyboard player and composer, in which capacity he successfully wrote music for several occasions.

· As Galuppi’s fame spread he became known as ‘Il Buranello’, after his birthplace, and as his operas travelled, so did he – first to Mantova, then London (1741-3), Vienna (1748), Madrid (1749) and as far afield as St Petersburg, where he served as court composer to Catherine the Great from 1765 to 1768, all the while producing one successful opera after another. Having returned home to Venice for good in 1768, he turned his energies to sacred music, and continued composing into old age.

· Galuppi’s style was defined during his lifetime as ‘gay, lively and brilliant’, and the three adjectives aptly describe the two published sets of six keyboard sonatas published during his lifetime as Opp. 1 and 2. He used elementary sonata-allegro forms, ranging from the simple binary dance forms of the Baroque to mono- and bi-thematic sonata-forms with embryonic development sections and complete recapitulations, as found in the works of Domenico Scarlatti, Pergolesi, and early Haydn. The texture is generally two-voiced, with right-hand cantabile melodies supported by a straightforward left-hand accompaniment of broken chords or Alberti bass figuration.

· “The young pianist Fernanda Damiano is a real marvel; she has a very remarkable pianism. She is destined, I am sure, to a very brilliant career” (Aldo Ciccolini). Fernanda Damiano, born in 1995, is the winner of several international piano competitions. Recently she worked with Enrico Pace at the famous Imola Piano Academy.

Galuppi: Piano Sonatas

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