THE GENESIS OF CORELLI LOCAL HEROES · Corelli is one of the most beloved musicians of the Baroque...

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LOCAL HEROES THE GENESIS OF CORELLI Monday 15 April 6pm Primrose Potter Salon PRESENTED BY Melbourne Recital Centre & Latitude 37 ARTISTS Latitude 37 Julia Fredersdorff Baroque violin Laura Vaughan viola da gamba Donald Nicolson harpsichord/organ PROGRAM ARCANGELO CORELLI (1653-1713) Trio Sonata in F, Op.1, No.7 MAURIZIO CAZZATI (1616-1678) Passacaglio GIACOMO ANTONIO PERTI (1661-1756) Fuga à due ALESSANDRO STRADELLA (1643-1682) Trio Sonata in D minor ARCANGELO CORELLI Trio Sonata in A minor, Op.1, No.4 MAURIZIO CAZZATI Capriccio sopra sedici note, Op.18, No.13 GIOVANNI BATTISTA VITALI (1632-1692) Toccata & Ciaccona in C for violone BARTOLOMEO GIROLAMO LAURENTI (1644-1726) Trio Sonata in F, Op.1, No.12 ARCANGELO CORELLI Trio Sonata in D, Op.1, No.11

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L O C A L H E R O E S

THE GENESIS OF CORELLI Monday 15 April 6pm Primrose Potter Salon

PRESENTED BY Melbourne Recital Centre & Latitude 37

ARTISTS Latitude 37Julia Fredersdorff Baroque violinLaura Vaughan viola da gambaDonald Nicolson harpsichord/organ

PROGRAMARCANGELO CORELLI (1653-1713)Trio Sonata in F, Op.1, No.7

MAURIZIO CAZZATI (1616-1678) Passacaglio

GIACOMO ANTONIO PERTI (1661-1756) Fuga à due

ALESSANDRO STRADELLA (1643-1682) Trio Sonata in D minor

ARCANGELO CORELLITrio Sonata in A minor, Op.1, No.4

MAURIZIO CAZZATICapriccio sopra sedici note, Op.18, No.13

GIOVANNI BATTISTA VITALI (1632-1692) Toccata & Ciaccona in C for violone

BARTOLOMEO GIROLAMO LAURENTI (1644-1726) Trio Sonata in F, Op.1, No.12

ARCANGELO CORELLITrio Sonata in D, Op.1, No.11

Faronell’s Division on a Ground from The Division Violin

John Playford

New Commission (Title TBA)

Jorden Heys

World Premiere

ABOUT THE MUSIC This year Latitude 37 centres its program around the genius of Arcangelo Corelli. Corelli is one of the most beloved musicians of the Baroque period, highly influential in the development of the solo sonata, concerto grosso, and establishing the violin as an elegant solo instrument second to none. Today we explore the life and times of Corelli’s youth, performing the music of his immediate predecessors and his own early contribution to the music, the trio sonatas from his Opus 1. The music in this program is drawn from the influential musicians active in Bologna where Corelli began his musical career. Whether Arcangelo actively studied with some of them is now questioned, but it seems highly likely that he knew them and was familiar with their compositional output. The music of these older masters provides the context in which we have placed Corelli’s own early work. His Opus 1 was first printed in Rome in 1681, a collection of pieces in the established genre known as sonata da chiesa (church sonata), in which each sonata consists of four short movements ordered slow-fast-slow-fast. The popularity of the Opus 1 is attested by numerous subsequent editions, not only in Italy (Bologna in 1604 and Venice in 1707), but further afield in England in the 1740s. A beautiful engraving from London in 1790 is proof that the general public a century later was still rightly enamoured of il Bolognese’s music.

© Donald Nicolson 2019

ABOUT THE ARTISTSFor more than a decade, Baroque trio Latitude 37 has been giving exquisite and authentic performances of 17th- and 18th-century music. The combination of Baroque violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord opens up a wealth of repertoire that is rarely explored by other Australian ensembles.

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