Bach, Corelli, Handel & Telemann: Corellimania / Perl, Petri, Esfahani

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OUR Recordings
Release Date
October 20, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johann Sebastian Bach, Arcangelo Corelli, Georg Friedrich Handel, Georg Philipp Telemann
    • PERFORMER
      Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 20, 2023
    • UPC
      0747313168262
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      6220682
    • LABEL
      OUR Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Baroque Era
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Largo

      Composer: Arcangelo Corelli

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    2. II. Vivace

      Composer: Arcangelo Corelli

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    3. III. Adagio

      Composer: Arcangelo Corelli

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    4. IV. Presto

      Composer: Arcangelo Corelli

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    5. Fugue in B Minor on a theme by Corelli, BWV 579 (arr. for recorder, viola da gamba and harpsichord)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    6. I. Largo

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    7. II. Vivace

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    8. III. Furioso

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    9. IV. Adagio

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    10. V. Alla breve

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    11. VI. [Andante]

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    12. VII. A tempo di menuet

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    13. I. Prelude

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    14. II. Sonata

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    15. III. Aria con variazioni

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    16. IV. Minuet

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    17. Duet No. 1 in E Minor, BWV 802

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    18. Duet No. 2 in F Major, BWV 803

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    19. Duet No. 3 in G Major, BWV 804

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    20. Duet No. 4 in A Minor, BWV 805

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    21. I. Largo

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    22. II. Allemanda: Presto

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    23. III. Sarabanda: Grave

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    24. IV. Corrente: Vivace

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    25. Von Gott will ich nicht lassen (arr. for recorder, viola da gamba and harpsichord)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani

    26. Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5, No. 12, "La folia" (arr. for recorder, viola da gamba and harpsichord)

      Composer: Arcangelo Corelli

      Performer: Michala Petri, Hille Perl, Mahan Esfahani


As the progenitor of a style whose influence more or less came to define the instrumental music of the High Baroque, Arcangelo Corelli (1653 - 1713) occupies a position in music history as unenviable as it is to his great credit. Just what made Corelli’s style seem strikingly novel to his contemporaries is a tricky question. To be sure, his standardization and popularization of certain formal tropes – most notably the succession of movement types in Sonate da Camera and Sonate da Chiesa – was a significant part of what his followers considered the ‘Corellian’ manner.

But Corelli’s actual compositional style, his way of organizing musical thoughts into phrases and motives, is fundamentally derived from the expressive capabilities of his chosen instrument, the violin. Certain melodic patterns used to modulate and to effect sequences (e.g., chains of sevenths and fifths) basically derive from specificities of violin technique that amplify an instrument with origins primarily in dance music into one that in Corelli’s hands, could imitate the rise and fall of the sung and spoken human voice. This tension between idiomatically instrumental techniques and the evocation of the voice is the defining characteristic of Corelli’s style throughout all his surviving works and would establish the “Roman School” as the supreme measure of musical taste for generations.

For this exploration of the 18th century’s Corelli Craze, the dynamic star trio of Mahan Esfahani, Hille Perl and Michala Petri unite to trace the Roman’s influence, (sometimes in name only...) on the musical legacies of Bach, Händel and Telemann, and of course two works from the pen of the celebrated Italian Master, himself. Gramophone about the Petri/Perl/Esfahani Trio’s Bach recording: “While the tonal and expressive range of the recorder, viol and harpsichord may appear constrained in comparison to, say, flute, cello and piano, in the hands of foremost players such as these, even a relatively lightweight work such as the C major Sonata, BWV1033, comes over as the ideal demonstration of a particular facet of the composer’s style and the performers’ abilities.”