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Corradini: Canzonas & Sonatas
Brilliant Classics

Corradini: Canzonas & Sonatas

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Composer
Niccolo Corradini
Artist
Ensemble Il Narvalo
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Jan 05, 2024
Catalog #
BRI96191
UPC
5028421961910

About

Works attributable with certainty to Nicolò Corradini (1585–1646) – likely from Cremona as opposed to Bergamo or Rome as erroneously suggested in the past – are limited to a few printed editions, among them the Primo libro de Canzoni francesi a 4 e alcune suonate (a copy of which has come down to us, printed by Gardano in Venice in 1624). It includes ten French canzonas and four sonatas, works most likely conceived to be performed by several instrumentalists, including one or more possible continuists (because of the speed of some passages and the separation between different parts of often more than an octave).
The canzonas are divided into several sections with structures ranging from simple A-B-A to more complex schemes (A-B-C-A-B-D in the Eighth Canzon); these short musical frameworks offer within them a great variety of themes, imitation between parts and repetitions of sections, ensuring cohesiveness of form. The sonatas on the other hand – with the exception of the Suonata a tre (a simple A-B-C-D-A) – are presented in a more madrigalistic vein. The narrative pathway on which they are based passes through multiple melodic cues so completely different from one another as to suggest a rhetorical structure arching from an exordium to a final peroration. This leads to a proliferation of sections – A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I in the case of the Suonata a due cornetti in risposta. (The specification for two cornets “in call and response” contained in the title of this sonata corresponds to the numerous segments of this piece in which the same melody is first proposed by one performer and then repeated by the other.)

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 Canzon No. 1, "La Pallavicina" 04:15
    Track
    1
    Title
    Canzon No. 1, "La Pallavicina"
    Duration
    04:15
    Composer
    Nicolò Corradini
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Il Narvalo
    Conductor
    Federico del Sordo
  2. 2 Canzon No. 2, "La Sartirana" 04:21
    Track
    2
    Title
    Canzon No. 2, "La Sartirana"
    Duration
    04:21
    Composer
    Nicolò Corradini
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Il Narvalo
    Conductor
    Federico del Sordo
  3. 3 Canzon No. 3, "L'Argenta" 05:00
    Track
    3
    Title
    Canzon No. 3, "L'Argenta"
    Duration
    05:00
    Composer
    Nicolò Corradini
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Il Narvalo
    Conductor
    Federico del Sordo
  4. 4 Canzon No. 4, "La Sforza" 04:09
    Track
    4
    Title
    Canzon No. 4, "La Sforza"
    Duration
    04:09
    Composer
    Nicolò Corradini
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Il Narvalo
    Conductor
    Federico del Sordo
  5. 5 Canzon No. 5, "La Visconta" 03:16
    Track
    5
    Title
    Canzon No. 5, "La Visconta"
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    Nicolò Corradini
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Il Narvalo
    Conductor
    Federico del Sordo
  6. 6 Canzon No. 6, "La Sincopata" 04:31
    Track
    6
    Title
    Canzon No. 6, "La Sincopata"
    Duration
    04:31
    Composer
    Nicolò Corradini
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Il Narvalo
    Conductor
    Federico del Sordo
  7. 7 Canzon No. 7, "La Bizzarra" 05:57
    Track
    7
    Title
    Canzon No. 7, "La Bizzarra"
    Duration
    05:57
    Composer
    Nicolò Corradini
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Il Narvalo
    Conductor
    Federico del Sordo
  8. 8 Canzon No. 8, "La Treccha" 05:38
    Track
    8
    Title
    Canzon No. 8, "La Treccha"
    Duration
    05:38
    Composer
    Nicolò Corradini
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Il Narvalo
    Conductor
    Federico del Sordo
  9. 9 Canzon No. 9, "La Pessa" 02:56
    Track
    9
    Title
    Canzon No. 9, "La Pessa"
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Nicolò Corradini
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Il Narvalo
    Conductor
    Federico del Sordo
  10. 10 Canzon No. 10, "La Taverna" 02:56
    Track
    10
    Title
    Canzon No. 10, "La Taverna"
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Nicolò Corradini
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Il Narvalo
    Conductor
    Federico del Sordo
  11. 11 Sonata a 4, "La Soragana" 05:43
    Track
    11
    Title
    Sonata a 4, "La Soragana"
    Duration
    05:43
    Composer
    Nicolò Corradini
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Il Narvalo
    Conductor
    Federico del Sordo
  12. 12 Sonata a 3, "La Marcha" 03:15
    Track
    12
    Title
    Sonata a 3, "La Marcha"
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Nicolò Corradini
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Il Narvalo
    Conductor
    Federico del Sordo
  13. 13 Sonata a 2, "La Sfrondrata" 03:41
    Track
    13
    Title
    Sonata a 2, "La Sfrondrata"
    Duration
    03:41
    Composer
    Nicolò Corradini
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Il Narvalo
    Conductor
    Federico del Sordo
  14. 14 Sonata a 2, "La Golferamma" 03:23
    Track
    14
    Title
    Sonata a 2, "La Golferamma"
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Nicolò Corradini
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Il Narvalo
    Conductor
    Federico del Sordo