7.30pm - 9.15pm
Organiser:
University of Edinburgh
Location:
St Cecilia’s Hall: Concert Room and Music Museum
Anna Stegmann (recorder), Eva Saladin (violin), Agnieszka Oszanca (cello) and Andrea Friggi (harpsichord)
With Proper Graces – Corelli’s Opus 5 as a source of inspiration
Sonatas and Trios by A. Corelli, Handel, Barsanti, Veracini and Albicastro
Part of the Sypert Series of Early Music Concerts
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Programmes may be subject to last minute changes.
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When Arcangelo Corelli published his twelve violin sonatas Op. 5 on January 1st 1700—perhaps quite a symbolic date—it quickly became a best-seller. It was soon reprinted several times across Europe and arranged for other instruments. By the fourth reprint the first six sonatas da camera featured additional ornaments, also called “graces,” claimed to have been added by the composer himself. By 1702 the London publisher Walsh printed a recorder version of these six sonatas, followed in 1707 by sonata nos. 3 and 4. The title bore the extra mention “Artfully transpos’d and fitted to a flute and bass.” The slow movements again featured Italian-style ornaments, labelled “with proper graces by an eminent master.” Ensemble Odyssee takes these popular seventeenth-century sonatas and their surviving ornaments as inspiration, adding its own “graces” in the same spirit to solo and chamber pieces of the time. The audience will enjoy Corelli’s original sonatas and their original arrangements, next to pieces by Bellinzani, Barsanti, Veracini and Handel.
Book via Eventbrite. Tickets £5.00 - £20.00
