Attilio Ariosti: The Stockholm Sonatas, Vol. 2 (2007)

Thomas Georgi has taken on the unenviable task of attempting to bring the neglected viola d'amore back into a kind of favor into modern times. Look at what wonders the film Tous les Matins du Monde has wrought for the viola da gamba -- just a generation ago, hardly anyone played one, and by 2007, all sorts of players that have picked it up. However, there is a huge historical repertoire for gamba and only a very small one for viola d'amore; Vivaldi used it in some of his concerti and in instrumental parts belonging to ... Read More

Thomas Georgi has taken on the unenviable task of attempting to bring the neglected viola d'amore back into a kind of favor into modern times. Look at what wonders the film Tous les Matins du Monde has wrought for the viola da gamba -- just a generation ago, hardly anyone played one, and by 2007, all sorts of players that have picked it up. However, there is a huge historical repertoire for gamba and only a very small one for viola d'amore; Vivaldi used it in some of his concerti and in instrumental parts belonging to certain vocal works, and it is in this literature that the viola d'amore has found a home. Georgi has determined that the largest body of chamber sonatas produced for the viola d'amore by any composer belongs to an obscure figure named Attilio Ariosti, a Bolognese composer who worked from 1716 in London. Ariosti was good enough a composer to have had one of his melodies lifted by Handel for the "Pastoral Symphony" in Messiah nearly 15 years after he died, and Ariosti contributed 21... Read Less

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