Vitali: Artificii Musicali, Op.13 / Coen

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December 9, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Giovanni Battista Vitali
    • PERFORMER
      Andrea Coen
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      December 09, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421966861
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96686
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Canone à due alla quinta bassa

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    2. II. Cantilena à quattro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    3. III. Canone à due all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    4. IV. Canone à tre all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    5. V. Canone à tre all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    6. VI. Canone à tre all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    7. VII. Canone à tre all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    8. VIII. Canone à tre all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    9. IX. Canone à tre all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    10. X. Contraria contrariis curantur

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    11. XI. De minimis non curat praetor

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    12. XII. Canone à due alti all'vnisono sopra il canto fermo

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    13. XIII. Canone à tre all'unisono senza nota

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    14. XIV. Canone à tre all'unisono senza nota

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    15. XV. Canone à tre

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    16. XVI. Canone à due alla quarta sotto

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    17. XVII. Incipies sequeris non errabis

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    18. XVIII. Canone, nella replica si tralascia il sospiro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    19. XIX. Canone

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    20. XX. Canone à due

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    21. XXI. Canone à due

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    22. XXII. Canone alla quinta

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    23. XXIII. Canone à due all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    24. XXIV. Canone à due all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    25. XXV. Canone à due alla quinta sopra

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    26. XXVI. Canone alla quinta sotto (a 2)

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    27. XXVII. Canone à due all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    28. XXVIII. Canone à due all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    29. XXIX. Modulatione cancrizzata à due

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    30. XXX. Modulatione à due

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    31. XXXI. Modulatione à due

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    32. XXXII. Canone (a 2)

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    33. XXXIII. Canone à quattro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    34. XXXIV. Canone à quattro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    35. XXXV. Canone à quattro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    36. XXXVI. Canone à quattro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    37. XXXVII. Canone à quattro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    38. XXXVIII. Modulatione (a 4)

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    39. XXXIX. Canone à quattro all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    40. XL. Canone à quattro all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    41. XLI. Canone à quattro all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    42. XLII. Canone à quattro bassi all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    43. XLIII. Canone à sei soprani all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    44. XLIV. Canone à otto bassi all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    45. XLV. Canone à dieci bassi all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    46. XLVI. Canone à dodeci bassi all'unisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    47. XLVII. Sinfonia à due violini in canone all'vnisono

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    48. XLVIII. Fuga in contrapunto doppio

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    49. XLIX. La controscritta fuga in contrapunto doppio riuoltata

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    50. L. Contrapunto doppio

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    51. LI. Contrapunto doppio

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    52. LII. Contrapunto doppio

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    53. LIII. [Balletto]

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    54. LIV. [Balletto]

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    55. LV. Capricio primo

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    56. LVI. Capricio secondo

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    57. LVII. Capricio terzo

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    58. LVIII. Capricio quarto

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    59. LIX. Passagallo

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    60. Violin Sonata No. 1: I. Largo

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    61. Violin Sonata No. 1: II. Allegro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    62. Violin Sonata No. 1: III. [Grave]

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    63. Violin Sonata No. 1: IV. [Allegro]

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    64. Violin Sonata No. 1: V. —

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    65. Violin Sonata No. 2: I. Grave

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    66. Violin Sonata No. 2: II. Prestissimo

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    67. Violin Sonata No. 2: III. Grave

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    68. Violin Sonata No. 2: IV. Allegro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen

    69. Violin Sonata No. 2: V. Largo

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Andrea Coen


Born in Bologna, Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632–1692) spent all his life between his birth city and Modena, where he moved in 1674. There is something noteworthy in this geography of the composer: Vitali’s move from Bologna, then part of the Papal States under the administration of Rome, to the smaller but significantly more secular and artistically stimulating Modena, under the rule of the splendid Este family, is suggestive of a desire to achieve greater expressive freedom. Artificii Musicali (Modena, 1689) has given Vitali a respectable place in music history, particularly if one considers the oft supposed idea that it served as inspiration for J.S. Bach’s Musical Offering, J. Fux’s Gradus ad Parnassum (1725) and G.B. Martini’s Saggio Fondamentale Pratico di Contrappunto sopra il Canto Fermo (1774).

Vitali’s Artificii Musicali appeared at a historical crossroad, during the final decades of the 17th century, when there was an explosive rise in instrumental music. There are 40 canons in this work and interspersed among them there are 4 that can be classified as riddle-canons or enigma-canons. These intriguing pieces are accompanied by a brief Latin motto containing the key for their realization, which is left to the reader to decipher (of note, Bach also included two riddle-canons with Latin mottos in the Musical Offering). The final 9 pieces in the Artificii are an eclectic collection of balletti, capricci, a passagallo, and 2 violin sonatas, representative of the main forms of instrumental music at the end of the 17th century. Although Artificii was originally written for violin and bass, Andrea Coen performs here on a harpsichord, and furthermore a harpsichord in equal temperament.