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Geminiani: La Forêt enchantée / Nannini, Elisa Baciocchi Ensemble
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Geminiani: La Forêt enchantée / Nannini, Elisa Baciocchi Ensemble

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Composer
Francesco Geminiani
Artist
Lindawetherill, Carlo Alberto Valenti, Maria Angelica Vitali, Tommaso Vale
Format
CD
Label
Tactus
Released
Mar 04, 2022
Catalog #
TC680706
UPC
8007194107593

About

The musical production of Francesco Saverio Geminiani is totally focused on instrumental music, and includes two collections of violin sonatas, one of cello sonatas, three of concerti grossi, two of Pièces de Clavecin, and a series of transcriptions and revisions of works by other important Italian composers such as Arcangelo Corelli and Francesco Mancini. Geminiani was very active as a treatise writer: he published no less than six works, among which the one that stands out is The art of playing on the violin, published in 1751 and still regarded as the most important violin treatise of that period, together with that of Leopold Mozart from 1756. The treatise became quite famous at once, and was much used by the composer’s contemporaries; several versions of it were published up to 1790, with English and French editions, reaching the New World. The composer’s only digression from his customary work consisted of La Forêt enchantée, a theatrical pantomime meant to be performed by mimes and dancers on expressly-composed music; it had been inspired by Canti xiii and xviii of Gerusalemme liberata, by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595). The version drawn up by Claudio Valenti – who devised the dramatic part together with the actor Piero Nannini – seeks out and re-creates the prosodic relationship between the text and the music that constitutes the core of the composer’s inspiration in his reading of Tasso’s text. For this reason, the work is presented not only in its version for string instruments alone, with the addition of a single flute, but has also been stripped of its orchestral repetitions (all of them), so as to outline an instrumental structure that is transparent, but able to catch and amplify the expressive peculiarities of the score in relation to the text, achieving a novel sort of representative madrigal.

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 Scene 1: Ma cadde a pena in cenere - Andante - Allegro - Moderato - Sorge non lunge a le cristiane tende 06:54
    Track
    1
    Title
    Scene 1: Ma cadde a pena in cenere - Andante - Allegro - Moderato - Sorge non lunge a le cristiane tende
    Duration
    06:54
    Composer
    Francesco Geminiani
    Performer
    Pietro Nannini
    Ensemble
    Elisa Baciocchi Ensemble
  2. 2 Scene 2: Andante - Allegro Moderato - Andante - Or qui se 'n venne il mago|e suo cerchio formovvi - Adagio - Girò tre volte a l'oriente 04:59
    Track
    2
    Title
    Scene 2: Andante - Allegro Moderato - Andante - Or qui se 'n venne il mago|e suo cerchio formovvi - Adagio - Girò tre volte a l'oriente
    Duration
    04:59
    Composer
    Francesco Geminiani
    Performer
    Pietro Nannini
    Ensemble
    Elisa Baciocchi Ensemble
  3. 3 Scene 3: Allegro Moderato - Andante Spiritoso - Adagio - Udite, udite, o voi che da le stelle 04:59
    Track
    3
    Title
    Scene 3: Allegro Moderato - Andante Spiritoso - Adagio - Udite, udite, o voi che da le stelle
    Duration
    04:59
    Composer
    Francesco Geminiani
    Performer
    Pietro Nannini
    Ensemble
    Elisa Baciocchi Ensemble
  4. 4 Scene 4: Allegro - A quel parlar le faci - Ma il Pio Buglion - Grave 09:39
    Track
    4
    Title
    Scene 4: Allegro - A quel parlar le faci - Ma il Pio Buglion - Grave
    Duration
    09:39
    Composer
    Francesco Geminiani
    Performer
    Pietro Nannini
    Ensemble
    Elisa Baciocchi Ensemble
  5. 5 Scene 5: Allegro moderato - Fuggono al fine 07:30
    Track
    5
    Title
    Scene 5: Allegro moderato - Fuggono al fine
    Duration
    07:30
    Composer
    Francesco Geminiani
    Performer
    Pietro Nannini
    Ensemble
    Elisa Baciocchi Ensemble
  6. 6 Scene 6: Andante affettuoso - Era il prence - Andante affettuoso 13:09
    Track
    6
    Title
    Scene 6: Andante affettuoso - Era il prence - Andante affettuoso
    Duration
    13:09
    Composer
    Francesco Geminiani
    Performer
    Pietro Nannini
    Ensemble
    Elisa Baciocchi Ensemble
  7. 7 Scene 7: Allegro - Allegro moderato - Era là giunto - Andante - Vi sente d'un ruscello il roco pianto 05:21
    Track
    7
    Title
    Scene 7: Allegro - Allegro moderato - Era là giunto - Andante - Vi sente d'un ruscello il roco pianto
    Duration
    05:21
    Composer
    Francesco Geminiani
    Performer
    Pietro Nannini
    Ensemble
    Elisa Baciocchi Ensemble
  8. 8 Scene 8: Allegro assai - Andante adagio - e poi se 'n va tutto sospeso e lento - Andante affettuoso - Allegro 03:56
    Track
    8
    Title
    Scene 8: Allegro assai - Andante adagio - e poi se 'n va tutto sospeso e lento - Andante affettuoso - Allegro
    Duration
    03:56
    Composer
    Francesco Geminiani
    Performer
    Pietro Nannini
    Ensemble
    Elisa Baciocchi Ensemble
  9. 9 Scene 9: là s'apre il giglio - Andante 03:49
    Track
    9
    Title
    Scene 9: là s'apre il giglio - Andante
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Francesco Geminiani
    Performer
    Pietro Nannini
    Ensemble
    Elisa Baciocchi Ensemble
  10. 10 Scene 10: Allegro - Rinaldo guata - Affettuoso, Allegro 08:48
    Track
    10
    Title
    Scene 10: Allegro - Rinaldo guata - Affettuoso, Allegro
    Duration
    08:48
    Composer
    Francesco Geminiani
    Performer
    Pietro Nannini
    Ensemble
    Elisa Baciocchi Ensemble