Bass Voice, 2 violins, basso continuo

SKU: HH.HH590-FSP

Composed by Giuseppe Aldrovandini. Edited by Michael Talbot. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH590-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH590-FSP).

ISBN 9790708213055.

The ten motets (Concerti sacri) for solo voice, violins and continuo making up his Op. 3 (1703) are among his most attractive compositions, standing on the borderline between seventeenth-century bel canto and the progressive trends represented by Alessandro Scarlatti and, later, Antonio Vivaldi. The two motets for bass voice concluding the set delight through their euphony and the sheer swagger of Aldrovandini’s writing for the voice.

Critical Edition, Paperback Basso Continuo; Violin (Violin)

SKU: HL.50606939

Critical Edition $19.99 Subscriber price. Composed by Antonio Vivaldi. Arranged by ñ, Fabrizio Ammetto, Javier Lupiá, and ez. CRITICAL EDITIONS. Classical. Softcover. 56 pages. Ricordi #PR1457. Published by Ricordi (HL.50606939).

ISBN 9788881921225. UPC: 196288207344. 8.0x10.75x0.159 inches.

In a miscellaneous manuscript in the Este Music Collection belonging to the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, a new sonata for violin and basso continuo by Antonio Vivaldi has recently been identified. Although it has until now been attributed by default to the Bolognese Giuseppe Aldrovandini, by virtue of a heading written (but subsequently rubbed out) by the copyist of the manuscript on one of the pages of the violin part, this sonata has been recognized as an authentic composition by the Red Priest. This work - which can be placed chronologically no later than the middle of the 1710s - represents the most clear-cut example in Vivaldi's music of a “Sonate auf Concertenart”: more specifically, a kind of solo sonata for violin that the Red Priest could perform in order to show off his prowess on that instrument, as signalled by the presence of many passages featuring double stoppingor the use of the ultra-high register.

By Aldrovandini, Giuseppe (1671-1707). Two trumpets and piano. Published by International Music Co.