Perla Barocca: Early Italian Masterpieces

there's the sense of music in possession of a free spirit and keen to test boundaries both expressive and virtuosic...Predictably there's an unfailing eloquence to everything Podger does, whether... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 22nd Sep 2014
Catalogue No: CCSSA36014
Label: Channel
Length: 69 minutes

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December 2014

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Fontana, G B: Sonata Seconda: Fontana

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Rachel Podger, Marcin Świątkiewicz, Daniele Caminiti

Frescobaldi: Toccata Prima

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Marcin Świątkiewicz

Uccellini: Sonata over Toccata Quinta a violino solo 'detta la Laura Rilucente'

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Rachel Podger, Marcin Świątkiewicz

Castello, D: Sonata Seconda: Castello

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Rachel Podger, Marcin Świątkiewicz, Daniele Caminiti

Marini, B: Sonata 'per sonar con due corde'

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Rachel Podger, Marcin Świątkiewicz, Daniele Caminiti

Frescobaldi: Toccata per Spinettina e Violino

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Rachel Podger, Daniele Caminiti

Mealli: Sonata Sesta (Op. 4, 1690) La Vinciolina

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Rachel Podger, Marcin Świątkiewicz, Daniele Caminiti

Leonarda: Sonata duodecima

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Gabrieli, A: Ricercar del primo tonuo

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Marcin Świątkiewicz

Cima, G: Sonata a due, Milano 1610

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Rachel Podger, Marcin Świątkiewicz, Daniele Caminiti

Bertali: Ciaconna

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Rachel Podger, Marcin Świątkiewicz, Daniele Caminiti

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Fresh from winning the Instrumental category in the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2014 for “Guardian Angel” (CCSSA35513) Rachel Podger is back with this beautiful collection of masterpieces of the early Italian Baroque.

By the mid-seventeenth century, musical composition had reached a point where invention had converged with technical mastery. Composers embraced a bass line lively with linearity, often entering into dialogue with the upper voices. Exploratory harmonic schemes were encompassed within larger unified tonalities. Through rhetorical structures, such as motive, imitation and sequence, composers instilled logic into their musical arguments.

These characteristics, though rooted in vocal practice, were being cultivated for the first time in musical history for instrumentalists. In other words, the Baroque was born.

The featured composers showcase sublime examples of the early Italian Baroque. Some composers dominate the repertory; others have left behind only a handful of works. Here, they come together to convey the diverse musical landscape at such an excitingly rich and creative era.

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December 2014

there's the sense of music in possession of a free spirit and keen to test boundaries both expressive and virtuosic...Predictably there's an unfailing eloquence to everything Podger does, whether scampering over the strings with irrepressible insouciance, tracing the airborne curve of a rhetorical flourish, or tucking in a discreet yet telling embellishment.

October 2014

It would be hard to imagine a more enticing introduction to the delights of 17th-century Italian violin music...Podger and her accompanists enjoy bringing out these pieces' sense of discovery, of excitement and intense feeling, yet without doing violence to the substance of the music.

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