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Italian Virtuosi


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Guts Baroque full profile / Baroque String Duo / 2 musicians

Composers featured: Corelli, Locatelli, Vivaldi, Carbonelli

Other players: Rebecca Shaw


Full program notes

When Arcangelo Corelli put his Opus 5 violin sonatas into the world in 1700, they made a bang so big that it rippled across Europe, forever changing the way people wrote classical music for the violin, and seriously upping the ante for the way people played it.

Corelli’s Opus 5 #9 sonata, one of the works that kicked off a seismic shift in how music was composed for the violin
his student Carbonelli’s Sonata #1, by turns gorgeous, grand, and playful
his maybe-student Veracini’s Sonata #2, a micro-opera of dramatic virtuosity
and contemporary Vivaldi’s Opus 2 Sonata #3, a different take on the same sonata structure


Historical context

We'll be playing on period replica instruments in historically-informed style, which means we play the music as close as possible to how it was played back when it was composed in the 17th and 18th centuries. The current revival of historically-informed performance practice started in the 1960s, rippling through pop and rock music as well as classical music. Because there are no recordings from that far back, the way we approach the music is based on books written at the time about how to be a good musician, as well as the physical characteristics of instruments and bows from that time and the different gestures and colors they offer.


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