Special offer. Se in fiorito ameno prato. Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo
Luigi Accardo, Mauro Pinciaroli, Quartetto Vanvitelli
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.
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- Quartetto Vanvitelli
- Luigi Accardo
- Quartetto Vanvitelli
- Mauro Pinciaroli
- Quartetto Vanvitelli
- Quartetto Vanvitelli
- Quartetto Vanvitelli
- Quartetto Vanvitelli
- Quartetto Vanvitelli
- Quartetto Vanvitelli
- Quartetto Vanvitelli
- Quartetto Vanvitelli
- Quartetto Vanvitelli
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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.