Two Sonatas in Five Parts

*2 Baroque Sonatas* for SSATB recorder quintet. Includes notes by the editor in German and English.

** These two colourful pieces are typical examples of 17th century Italian five part writing in an idiom common also to Vecchi, Vitali, Massaino and Gabrieli. They are made up of short movements often leading direct from one to the next across the double bars without a break, alternating quick and slow tempi in characteristically mercurial Italian fashion. The writing is at times fugal and contrapuntal, interspersed with sections of entirely vertical harmony. The original title assigns these fantasies to cinque stromenti. Among the stromenti in general use at the timein Italy were the violin, viola da gamba and recorder (flauto dolce) families, on which latter instruments the parts lie comfortably in the original key. Most of the phrasemarks and dynamics have been added by the editor.   Carl Dolmetsch. 

** Giovanni Legrenzi (baptized August 12, 1626 – May 27, 1690) was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era. He was one of the most prominent composers in Venice in the late 17th century, and extremely influential in the development of late Baroque idioms across northern Italy.

*La Fugazza*
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Presto
4. Adagio
5. Allegro
6. Adagio
7. Allegro

*La Marinona*
1. Adagio
2. Adagio
3. Adagio
4. Presto

_Score 8 pp. Parts 3 pp._