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Campioni: 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 4b / Simone Stella
Brilliant Classics

Campioni: 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 4b / Simone Stella

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Details

Composer
CAMPIONI, CARLO ANTONIO
Artist
Simone Stella
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Mar 26, 2021
Catalog #
BRI95997
UPC
5028421959979

About

Born as Charles-Antoine Campion in the Lorraine region of France, Carlo Antonio Campioni (1720-1788) made the decisive move to Florence as a 17-year-old violinist, probably studying with Giuseppe Tartini in his famous ‘school of nations’ in Padova. By 1752 he had become an experienced music director as well as composer, appointed as maestro di capella at the cathedral in Livorno. Around a decade later he moved back to France for a temporary stay in Paris but in 1763 he took up the prestigious post of maestro di capella for the Grand Duke of Florence. In this capacity Campioni travelled widely and his own music became known through its publication in Amsterdam, Paris and London. One eager consumer of his music through the London editions was the young amateur violinist (and future US president) Thomas Jefferson, who made a thematic catalogue of the seven collections he then owned, and this catalogue still serves as an aid to sorting out the bewildering confusion of Campioni's printed works. By 1789, when he left Paris, Jefferson owned nearly all of Campioni’s music for strings. Campioni amassed an impressive music library of his own, which attracted the attention of the traveller and writer Charles Burney. Campioni was also an accomplished harpsichordist, as this collection of sonatas amply demonstrates. Full of elegant writing, graceful melodies and graceful ornamentation, the six sonatas fuse Classical-era and Baroque forms: sonata-form movements with dances such as gigues and minuets, and arpeggiated preludes such as one finds in the dance suites of Bach and Couperin. These bold and venturesome works should delight all lovers of Baroque rarities, winningly performed as they are here by Simone Stella.

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 04:22
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Carlo Antonio Campioni
    Performer
    Simone Stella
  2. 2 II. Giga 02:43
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Giga
    Duration
    02:43
    Composer
    Carlo Antonio Campioni
    Performer
    Simone Stella
  3. 3 I. Allegro 05:22
    Track
    3
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    05:22
    Composer
    Carlo Antonio Campioni
    Performer
    Simone Stella
  4. 4 II. Allegretto 03:35
    Track
    4
    Title
    II. Allegretto
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Carlo Antonio Campioni
    Performer
    Simone Stella
  5. 5 I. Arpeggio 02:12
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Arpeggio
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Carlo Antonio Campioni
    Performer
    Simone Stella
  6. 6 II. Allegro spiritoso 09:31
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Allegro spiritoso
    Duration
    09:31
    Composer
    Carlo Antonio Campioni
    Performer
    Simone Stella
  7. 7 III. Allegro, "La caccia" 04:26
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Allegro, "La caccia"
    Duration
    04:26
    Composer
    Carlo Antonio Campioni
    Performer
    Simone Stella
  8. 8 I. Allegro 07:20
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    07:20
    Composer
    Carlo Antonio Campioni
    Performer
    Simone Stella
  9. 9 II. Allegretto grazioso 04:14
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. Allegretto grazioso
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    Carlo Antonio Campioni
    Performer
    Simone Stella
  10. 10 I. Allegro maestoso 09:44
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Allegro maestoso
    Duration
    09:44
    Composer
    Carlo Antonio Campioni
    Performer
    Simone Stella
  11. 11 II. Minuet 03:57
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Minuet
    Duration
    03:57
    Composer
    Carlo Antonio Campioni
    Performer
    Simone Stella
  12. 12 I. Andante non troppo 07:07
    Track
    12
    Title
    I. Andante non troppo
    Duration
    07:07
    Composer
    Carlo Antonio Campioni
    Performer
    Valerio Losito, Simone Stella
  13. 13 II. Allegro 06:10
    Track
    13
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    06:10
    Composer
    Carlo Antonio Campioni
    Performer
    Valerio Losito, Simone Stella
  14. 14 III. Allegro 03:36
    Track
    14
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Carlo Antonio Campioni
    Performer
    Valerio Losito, Simone Stella