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Special offer. Se in fiorito ameno prato. Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo

Luigi Accardo, Mauro Pinciaroli, Quartetto Vanvitelli

Se in fiorito ameno prato. Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo
Violinist Gian Andrea Guerra fires the group’s esprit du corps. The brilliance with which he spins an idea, the intensity he brings to an affect and the glorious ways he exploits his period...

Special offer. Se in fiorito ameno prato. Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo

Luigi Accardo, Mauro Pinciaroli, Quartetto Vanvitelli

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Violinist Gian Andrea Guerra fires the group’s esprit du corps. The brilliance with which he spins an idea, the intensity he brings to an affect and the glorious ways he exploits his period...

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Handel's violin sonatas composed in London stretch from the heyday of the Royal Academy of Music's Italian opera productions to his last English oratorios. The original purposes, contexts and performers of the sonatas are unknown: only a few survive in autograph manuscripts, and the authorship and instrumentation of pieces preserved in unreliable early printed sources are a confusing mess. Quartetto Vanvitelli invent a narrative that explores the possibilities of emotions, sonorities and connecting tonalities that are offered by several authentic violin sonatas, a few spurious misattributions, quotations from Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724) and arrangements from several keyboard pieces - a creative vision designed to refract light through the prism of Handel's music.

Contents and tracklist

I. Affettuoso
Track length3:41
II. Allegro
Track length4:11
III. Larghetto
Track length2:19
IV. Allegro
Track length2:43
I. Grave
Track length2:34
II. Allegro
Track length1:48
III. Adagio
Track length1:32
IV. Allegro
Track length1:47
I. Andante
Track length2:09
II. Allegro
Track length3:02
III. Adagio
Track length0:58
IV. Allegro
Track length2:26
I. Andante larghetto
Track length1:49
II. Allegro
Track length1:35
III. Adagio
Track length1:17
IV. Allegro
Track length1:38
I. Adagio
Track length2:25
II. Allegro
Track length2:17
III. Largo
Track length1:28
IV. Allegro
Track length2:33
I. Andante
Track length2:17
II. Allegro
Track length2:35
III. Adagio
Track length1:23

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June 2025

Violinist Gian Andrea Guerra fires the group’s esprit du corps. The brilliance with which he spins an idea, the intensity he brings to an affect and the glorious ways he exploits his period instrument – for instance when he pivots from husky, fragile pianissimo to vibrant, full-bodied sustained notes – coalesce in arresting moments.
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