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Gervasio: Sonate a mandoline e basso
Tactus

Gervasio: Sonate a mandoline e basso

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Details

Composer
GERVASIO, GIOVAN BATTISTA
Artist
Inchordisensemble, Zigiotti, Merlante, Scaioli, Zanardi, Valgimigli
Format
CD
Label
Tactus
Released
Oct 04, 2019
Catalog #
TC720701
UPC
8007194107111

About

About Giovan Battista Gervasio's life we have only a few, fragmentary pieces of information. We do not know the exact years or places of his birth or death, and can only surmise that he was born in Naples in the third decade of the eighteenth century, and that he died after 1786, year of the publication of the last printed composition of his that is available to us. The music recorded here is a performance of the six sonatas in manuscript form preserved in Uppsala and Paris, the complete corpus of Gervasio's currently known sonatas. The InchordisTrio has been performing Giovan Battista Gervasio's sonatas for mandolin and basso continuo since it's establishment, including them in it's concert programmes. It is a very interesting, sometimes even surprising, music. In spite of it's rough formal simplicity, it turns out to be particularly effective and able to evoke the eighteenth-century Neapolitan Baroque atmosphere, through a series of stylistic features that belong to the typically Neapolitan composition procedure, with melodic solutions that are enjoyable, captivating, and pleasantly engrossing for both listeners and performers. The structure of the InchordisTrio, which is formed exclusively of plucked string instruments, stimulates a performance research and a rather distinctive construction of the basso continuo, based on an alternation of accompanying instruments, of empty and full parts, of timbres, and also on little melodic exchanges between the mandolin, the archlute and the harpsichord.

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro maestoso 05:46
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro maestoso
    Duration
    05:46
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  2. 2 II. Largo pizzicato 03:46
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Largo pizzicato
    Duration
    03:46
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  3. 3 III. Allegro assay 01:57
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro assay
    Duration
    01:57
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  4. 4 I. Allegro 03:44
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:44
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  5. 5 II. Largo amoroso 03:34
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Largo amoroso
    Duration
    03:34
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  6. 6 III. Allegro 02:29
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  7. 7 I. Allegro 03:45
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:45
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  8. 8 II. Larghetto grazioso 02:33
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Larghetto grazioso
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  9. 9 III. Allegro 02:21
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  10. 10 I. Allegro 03:27
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:27
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  11. 11 II. Largo amoroso 02:35
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Largo amoroso
    Duration
    02:35
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  12. 12 III. Taice alla tedesca 01:19
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Taice alla tedesca
    Duration
    01:19
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  13. 13 I. Allegro a suo comodo 04:05
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Allegro a suo comodo
    Duration
    04:05
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  14. 14 II. Minuetto al gusto Italiano 02:46
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Minuetto al gusto Italiano
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  15. 15 III. Gavotta: Allegretto gustoso 02:56
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Gavotta: Allegretto gustoso
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  16. 16 I. Allegro 03:19
    Track
    16
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  17. 17 II. Larghetto - Andantino grazioso 02:01
    Track
    17
    Title
    II. Larghetto - Andantino grazioso
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble
  18. 18 III. Allegro con molto spirito 02:15
    Track
    18
    Title
    III. Allegro con molto spirito
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Giovan Battista Gervasio
    Ensemble
    InchordisEnsemble