Genève au siècle des Lumières

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

Release Date: 16th Feb 2018
Catalogue No: CD161011
Label: Claves
Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

Fritz, Gasparo: Symphony in G major, Op. 6 No. 3

Work length12:31

$3.00

$4.20

$5.25

Orchestre Baroque de la HEM de Genève, Le Harmoniche Sfere
Florence Malgoire

I. Allegro

Track length5:19

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Andante allegretto

Track length3:49

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

III. Presto

Track length3:23

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

Fritz, Gasparo: Symphony in G major, Op. 6 No. 6

Work length13:00

$3.00

$4.20

$5.25

Orchestre Baroque de la HEM de Genève, Le Harmoniche Sfere
Florence Malgoire

I. Allegro

Track length4:40

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Andante

Track length5:32

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

III. Presto

Track length2:48

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

Schwindl: Symphony in E flat major, Op. 10 No. 3

Work length15:03

$4.00

$5.60

$7.00

Orchestre Baroque de la HEM de Genève, Le Harmoniche Sfere
Florence Malgoire

I. Largo - Allegro

Track length5:33

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Andante

Track length3:14

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

III. Menuetto

Track length2:40

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

IV. Presto

Track length3:36

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

Schwindl: Symphony in C, Op. 10 No. 1

Work length15:49

$4.00

$5.60

$7.00

Orchestre Baroque de la HEM de Genève, Le Harmoniche Sfere
Florence Malgoire

I. Allegro molto

Track length5:20

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Andante

Track length3:40

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

III. Rondo in Tempo di Menuetto - Grazioso

Track length2:47

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

IV. Allegro assai

Track length4:02

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

Scherrer: Sonata in D major, Op. 8

Work length15:36

$3.00

$4.20

$5.25

Denitsa Kazakova, Esmé de Vries, Paolo Corsi
Le Harmoniche Sfere, Orchestre Baroque de la HEM de Genève
Florence Malgoire

I. Allegro

Track length11:09

$2.00

$2.80

$3.50

II. Rondo Andantino

Track length4:27

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

Scherrer: Sonata for violin & piano in F, Op. 4

Work length11:35

$2.00

$2.80

$3.50

Denitsa Kazakova, Paolo Corsi
Orchestre Baroque de la HEM de Genève, Le Harmoniche Sfere
Florence Malgoire

I. Allegro

Track length5:26

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Rondo

Track length6:09

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

Scherrer: Sonata for cello & piano in B flat minor, Op. 5

Work length7:34

$2.00

$2.80

$3.50

Esmé de Vries, Paolo Corsi
Orchestre Baroque de la HEM de Genève, Le Harmoniche Sfere
Florence Malgoire

I. Adagio

Track length1:48

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Allegro

Track length5:46

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

Schwindl: Duo for violin & cello in B flat major, Op. 6

Work length8:28

$2.00

$2.80

$3.50

Denitsa Kazakova, Esmé de Vries
Orchestre Baroque de la HEM de Genève, Le Harmoniche Sfere
Florence Malgoire

I. Allegro moderato

Track length4:21

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Adagio - Presto

Track length4:07

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

Fritz, Gasparo: Sonata for violin in B flat major, Op. 3

Work length12:03

$3.00

$4.20

$5.25

Esmé de Vries, Denitsa Kazakova, Paolo Corsi
Orchestre Baroque de la HEM de Genève, Le Harmoniche Sfere
Florence Malgoire

I. Allegro

Track length4:50

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Adagio

Track length3:40

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

III. Allegro

Track length3:33

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

About
Explore

About

Following the Protestant Reform of the 16th century, Geneva became a recognized intellectual and religious centre. Attracting an important community of foreign nobility, the city did not stray from European artistic trends. Itinerant musicians, amateurs and dancing masters were essential actors of the transmission of musical practices as required by proper education.

In the middle of the 17th century, Genevese amateurs, travelers and foreign nobles congregated in “music concerts”. During one of these, forty young men from good families decided, in 1717, to found a concert society that would soon have at its disposal a converted hall in the Town Hall, where, for over a century, Genevese musicians and passing artists would perform. The city could now count on an orchestra, imperative for the interpretation of the contemporary repertoire, but also for welcoming important hosts, celebrating a royal birth or wedding in France, and shortly for playing fashionable comic operas. Whereas the theatre piqued the ire of moralists, music was never disputed. Furthermore, from the dawn of the 18th century, clergymen supported initiatives to establish music schools and even considered the rehabilitation of organs in churches.

Far from limiting itself to patrician salons, musical practice spread amongst the middle class and the world of well-to-do artisans, offering work opportunities to music and dance masters, instrument makers, even music engravers. Geneva’s geographical situation, at the cross-roads of the great European routes, as well as its prosperity, account for the visit of well-known musicians who found here an opportunity to play for or teach amateurs who, if the high quality of certain musical libraries is to go by, were very well informed about music of their time. Coming from various countries and cultures, these musicians brought their cultural knowledge and artistic language to local artists, thus contributing to the development of a flourishing musical life on par with the great European stylistic trends.

Gaspard Fritz, Nicolas Scherrer and Friedrich Schwindl, three actors of the musical life in Geneva.

Genève au siècle des Lumières

2 CDs

Downloads

Contents

Download queue