Matteo Cicchitti & Musica Elegentia - Six Sonatas for Violin, Cello and Violone (2022)

The path traced on this recording, with music by Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715-1777), and on following ones has the undoubted merit of introducing us to some composers considered “minor” compared to Haydn and Mozart. They were not only very active and influential on the musical life of that time; they also created a considerable amount of quality music, which deserves to be rediscovered and appreciated.

In a historical-musical perspective, the music of these less famous authors helps to reconstruct the passage between the decline of the Baroque, towards the middle of the eighteenth century, and the noon of the classical style. A period that we often classify as "pre-classical" or "galant" or "early Viennese school". This praiseworthy cultural operation, aimed at rediscovering not only “minor” composers but also certain genres considered “domestic” music allows us to better understand how the “musical landscape” looked like, especially in Vienna. Domestic music responded to the desire for cultured entertainment not only for the aristocracy but also for the rising bourgeois class; and as such, it constituted an indubitable status symbol.
Tracklist
01. Sonata I for Violin, Cello and Violone: Allegro
02. Sonata I for Violin, Cello and Violone: Andante
03. Sonata I for Violin, Cello and Violone: Allegro II
04. Sonata II for Violin, Cello and Violone: Allegro
05. Sonata II for Violin, Cello and Violone: Andante
06. Sonata II for Violin, Cello and Violone: Menuet
07. Sonata III for Violin, Cello and Violone: Moderato
08. Sonata III for Violin, Cello and Violone: Andante
09. Sonata III for Violin, Cello and Violone: Tempo di Menuet
10. Sonata IV for Violin, Cello and Violone: Allegro moderato
11. Sonata IV for Violin, Cello and Violone: Andante
12. Sonata IV for Violin, Cello and Violone: Tempo di Menuet
13. Sonata V for Violin, Cello and Violone: Allegro
14. Sonata V for Violin, Cello and Violone: Andante
15. Sonata V for Violin, Cello and Violone: Allegro II
16. Sonata VI for Violin, Cello and Violone: Allegro
17. Sonata VI for Violin, Cello and Violone: Larghetto
18. Sonata VI for Violin, Cello and Violone: Allegro molto