Giustini: 12 Sonatas, Op. 1 / Paolo Zentilin

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
January 22, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GIUSTINI, LODOVICO
    • PERFORMER
      Paolo Zentilin
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 22, 2021
    • UPC
      5028421961736
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96173
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Balletto: Spiritoso, ma non presto

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    2. II. Corrente: Allegro

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    3. III. Sarabanda: Grave

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    4. IV. Giga: Presto

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    5. V. Minuet: Affetuoso

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    6. I. Grave

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    7. II. Corrente: Allegro

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    8. III. Giga: Grave

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    9. IV. Presto: Giga

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    10. V. Minuet

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    11. I. Siciliana: Affettuoso

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    12. II. Canzone

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    13. III. Andante, ma non presto

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    14. IV. Giga: Presto

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    15. I. Preludio: Largo

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    16. II. Presto

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    17. III. Sarabanda: Largo

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    18. IV. Giga: Allegro

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    19. I. Preludio: Adagio, e aperggiato nell'acciaccature

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    20. II. Allegro

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    21. III. Affettuoso

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    22. IV. Corrente: Allegro

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    23. V. Tempo di gavotta

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    24. I. Preludio: Grave

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    25. II. Allegro assai

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    26. III. Dolce

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    27. IV. Giga: Allegro

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    28. I. Alemanda: Andante

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    29. II. Corrente: Presto assai

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    30. III. Siciliana: Affettuoso

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    31. IV. Gavotta: Presto

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    32. I. Sarabanda: Affettuoso

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    33. II. Allegro

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    34. III. Rondo: Affettuoso

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    35. IV. Giga: Prestissimo

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    36. I. Sarabanda: Andante

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    37. II. Alemanda: Allegro

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    38. III. Rondo: Affettuoso

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    39. IV. Gavotta: Allegro

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    40. I. Alemanda: Affettuoso

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    41. II. Tempo di Gavotta: Canzone

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    42. III. Alemanda: Grave e Affettuoso

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    43. IV. Corrente: Allegro assai

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    44. I. Alemanda: Allegro, ma non presto

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    45. II. Dolce

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    46. III. Gavotta

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    47. IV. Rondo: Affettuoso

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    48. V. Giga: Allegro assai

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    49. I. Sarabanda: Largo

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    50. II. Canzone

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    51. III. Siciliana: Affettuoso

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    52. IV. Giga: Presto assai

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin

    53. V. Minuet: Allegro

      Composer: Lodovico Giustini

      Performer: Paolo Zentilin


Following Andrea Coen’s 2010 recording (94021) Brilliant Classics is the only label with two complete versions of Giustini’s sonatas on the market, showing its commitment to significant but under-recorded turning points in musical history. Lodovico Giustini (1685-1743) seldom left his native Pistoia, where he worked as organist of the Congregazione dello Spirito Santo. Published in nearby Florence in 1732, this set of 12 elegant sonatas is, in keeping with Scarlattian practice, dominated by movements in binary form, featuring dances and contrapuntal excursions, and displaying hints of the emerging galant style, which replaced busy Baroque continuo textures with a singing, more natural approach. Giustini enjoys high contrasts, soft and loud, and teases out of the new fortepiano technology everything it had to offer. However, the extant scores are not free of errors, and they leave a good deal up to the performer. Paolo Zentilin makes the most of Giustini’s writing. He has corrected the obvious errors, and he exhibits taste and technical mastery in his playing of a modern, beautifully conditioned Fazioli piano. Exploiting the instrument’s tonal resources while remaining respectful of a Baroque sensibility, his playing is consistently passionate but never overblown, with an attractive full-bodied tone, and an exquisite sense of dynamic control. Extremely soft passages are executed with no loss of rhythmic vitality. Ornaments are rendered with delicate crispness. The music’s character - whether a regal dance or a study in tenderness—is always projected with sincerity and authenticity. No matter how intricate the counterpoint, the result remains genuinely heartfelt, never mechanical.