Fontana / Cima / Turini

Fontana / Cima / Turini - Sonatas
Ensemble Sonnerie
Virgin Veritas 45199 (2 CDs)
EMI 387 0222 (2 CDs)

Contents:

    Fontana
  1. Sonata No. 2 (violin, harp, chitarrone, lirone, virginals)
  2. Sonata No. 4 (cornetto, harpsichord, chitarrone)
  3. Sonata No. 14 (violin, cornetto, cello, harp, chitarrone, lirone, organ)
  4. Sonata No. 7 (2 violins, harp, chitarrone, lirone, organ)
  5. Sonata No. 9 (cornetto, dulcian, organ)
  6. Sonata No. 11 (2 cornettos, harp, chitarrone, organ)
  7. Sonata No. 1 (cornetto, organ)
  8. Sonata No. 12 (violin, dulcian, harpsichord, chitarrone)
  9. Sonata No. 8 (2 violins, virginals, chitarrone)
  10. Sonata No. 13 (2 violins, cello, virginals, chitarrone)
  11. Sonata No. 3 (violin, chitarrone)
  12. Sonata No. 10 (violin, cello, chitarrone, lirone, harp)
  13. Sonata No. 16 (violin, 2 cornettos, harp, chitarrone, lirone, organ)
  1. Turini: Sonata a 2 violini (2 violins, chitarrone, harp, organ)
  2. A. Cima: Capriccio a 2 (cornetto, cello, organ)
  3. Turini: Sonata a 3 'Il Corisino' (2 violins, organ, guitar)
  4. G. Cima: Sonata a 3 (violin, cornetto, cello, organ, chitarrone)
  5. Fontana: Sonata No. 15 (2 cornettos, dulcian, organ, chitarrone)
  6. Turini: Sinfonia a 3 (2 violins, cello, harpsichord, guitar)
  7. Turini: Gagliarda a 3 (2 violins, cello, harpsichord, guitar)
  8. G. Cima: Sonata a 2 (cornetto, sackbut, organ, chitarrone)
  9. Fontana: Sonata No. 17 (2 violins, dulcian, harpsichord, chitarrone, harp)
  10. Turini: Sonata a 3 'E tanto tempo hormai' (2 violins, cello, harpsichord, guitar)
  11. Fontana: Sonata No. 6 (violin, harpsichord, chitarrone)
  12. G. Cima: Sonata a 4 (2 violins, viola, cello, organ, chitarrone)
  13. Turini: Sonata a 3 (2 violins, cello, organ, chitarrone)
  14. G. Cima: Sonata a 2 (violin, cello, organ, chitarrone)
  15. Fontana: Sonata No. 5 (violin, virginals)
  16. A. Cima: Capriccio a 4 (violin, cornetto, cello, sackbut, organ, chitarrone)
  17. Fontana: Sonata No. 18 (violin, cornetto, dulcian, organ, harp, chitarrone)

Performers: Monica Huggett (violin), Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin), Emilia Benjamin (viola), Bruce Dickey (cornetto), Doron David Sherwin (cornetto), Frances Eustace (dulcian), Sarah Cunningham (cello), Stephen Saunders (sackbut), Gary Cooper (harpsichord, organ, virginals), Elizabeth Kenny (chitarrone, guitar), Erin Headley (lirone), Siobhán Armstrong (harp)

Playing time: 146'

Recording date: August 1995

Items are taken from: Giovanni Battista Fontana (d.c.1630) Sonate a 1·2·3 per il violino, o cornetto, fagotto, chitarone, violoncino o simile altro instrumento (Venice, 1641); Giovanni Paolo Cima (c.1570-c.1622) & Andrea Cima (fl.1606-27) Sei sonate, per instrumenti à due, tre e quatro (Milan, 1610); Francesco Turini (c.1589-1656) Madrigali, libro II (Venice, 1624).

This is some of the earliest baroque violin music in the modern style (i.e. with the basso continuo). Here the primary composer is Fontana, and his complete surviving output (published posthumously) is included here. Of course, other instruments also continue in use alongside violins.

Another recording devoted to Fontana:

Fontana: Sonate a uno, due e tre violino
Icarus Ensemble
Claves 50-2203

A recording devoted entirely to Giovanni Paolo Cima (c.1570-c.1622):

Cima: Concerti Ecclesiastici (1610)
Musica Figurata
Dynamic 212

Another composer to contribute to the instrumental sonata at the beginning of the 17th century was Dario Castello. A recording of his music on violins:

Castello: Sonata Concertate
Europa Galante - Fabio Biondi
Opus 111 30-62

And a couple of other recordings devoted to early Italian violinist-composers:

Salomone Rossi "Hebreo"
Il terzo libro de varie sonate, sinfonie, gagliarde, brandi e corrente
Il Ruggiero - Emanuela Marcante
Tactus 571801
Farina: Capriccio stravagante
Accademia Strumentale Italiana - Alberto Rasi
Stradivarius Dulcimer 33388

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Todd M. McComb