Valentini: Complete Mandolin Sonatas (Full Album)

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The east Midlands city of Leicester has recently come to worldwide attention thanks to a winning partnership between its football club and an Italian coach. This latest addition to the ever-expanding catalogue of Baroque Italiana on Brilliant Classics demonstrates that the connection between Leicester and Rome goes back at least three centuries: to one Robert Valentine, who left his home city at the end of the 17th century and made a career across Europe as an itinerant musician, before settling in the Eternal City as ‘Roberto Valentini Inglese’. There he established himself as a flautist, oboist and composer. He evidently gained renown in the competitive musical culture of Rome, played in the first performance of Handel’s La Risurrezione under Corelli, andapparently never returned to Leicester.

This new recording presents the first printed edition of sonatas for the mandolin and basso continuo published in the first half of the 18th century, featuring Italian composers Roberto Valentini and Pietro Boni.
Robert Valentini (1674-1747) left his home and birthplace in the English Midlands in his early twenties for a “Grand Tour”, never to return. He finally settled in Rome as Roberto Valentini, where he became a successful composer and musician, playing the flute and oboe. His enormous output mainly consists of chamber music for the flute and b.c. In the score he left the choice of the solo instrument open for either violin, flute or…mandolin.
The mandolin used in this recording is a 6 double course “Mandolino Lombardo”, inspired by an instrument by Antonio Monzino (Milan 1792).
The ensemble Pizzicar Galante has already established itself as one of the most dynamic period ensembles specializing in galant music for mandolin and basso continuo and is regularly invited to festivals all over Europe and abroad.

00:00:00 Sonata No. 6 in D Major, Op. 12: I. Adagio
00:02:53 Sonata No. 6 in D Major, Op. 12: II. Allegro
00:04:34 Sonata No. 6 in D Major, Op. 12: III. Adagio
00:07:50 Sonata No. 6 in D Major, Op. 12: IV. Vivace
00:09:30 Sonata No. 6 in D Major, Op. 12: V. Andante
00:10:16 Sonata No.6 in D Major, Op. 12: VI. Allegro
00:11:27 Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 2: I. Largo
00:16:31 Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 2: II. Allegro giga
00:18:30 Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 2: III. Allegro
00:19:27 Sonata No. 3 in G Major, Op. 12: I. Adagio
00:21:31 Sonata No. 3 in G Major, Op. 12: II. Allegro
00:22:54 Sonata No. 3 in G Major, Op. 12: III. Andante
00:24:42 Sonata No. 3 in G Major, Op. 12: IV. Allegro
00:26:32 Sonata No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 12: I. Adagio
00:29:24 Sonata No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 12: II. Allegro
00:30:51 Sonata No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 12: III. Andante
00:32:11 Sonata No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 12: IV. Allegro
00:33:48 Sonata No. 9 in D Major, Op. 2: I. Allegro
00:35:50 Sonata No. 9 in D Major, Op. 2: II. Adagio
00:38:43 Sonata No. 9 in D Major, Op. 2: III. Allegro
00:39:23 Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 12: I. Adagio
00:41:22 Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 12: II. Allegro
00:42:42 Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 12: III. Andante
00:45:07 Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 12: IV. Allegro
00:46:14 Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 12: I. Adagio
00:49:07 Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 12: II. Allegro
00:50:20 Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 12: III. Adagio amorosa
00:52:05 Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 12: IV. Allegro
00:53:29 Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 2: I. I. Preludio largo
00:57:04 Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 2: II. Corrente allegro
00:58:42 Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 2: III. Sarabanda
01:01:14 Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 2: IV. Allegro
01:02:17 Sonata No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 12: I. Adagio
01:05:30 Sonata No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 12: II. Allegro
01:07:05 Sonata No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 12: III. Largo
01:11:04 Sonata No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 12: IV. Allegro

Artist:
Pizzicar Galante
Anna Schivazappa (baroque mandolin)
Fabio Antonio Falcone (harpsichord)