There remains a great deal of Italian Baroque music to discover, and that of violinist-composer Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli is a case in point. A move from Italy to prosperous Britain was a popular career path: Carbonelli worked for Handel, concertized widely, and changed his name to John Stephen Carbonell. Much of his music has been lost, but a set of 12 violin sonatas survives and has been recorded by Baroque violinist Bojan Cicic and his Illyria Consort; this release, beginning with the seventh sonata, is a sequel to ...
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There remains a great deal of Italian Baroque music to discover, and that of violinist-composer Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli is a case in point. A move from Italy to prosperous Britain was a popular career path: Carbonelli worked for Handel, concertized widely, and changed his name to John Stephen Carbonell. Much of his music has been lost, but a set of 12 violin sonatas survives and has been recorded by Baroque violinist Bojan Cicic and his Illyria Consort; this release, beginning with the seventh sonata, is a sequel to Cicic's 2017 set of the first six. Both are worthwhile and fit Cicic's effortless but somewhat cutting style beautifully. Here, however, you get several intriguing items if you're buying just one album. First is a concerto by Vivaldi, the Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV 366, known as "Il Carbonelli" and apparently written for the violinist to perform. Although there's plenty of music written for specific singers, that written for specific instrumentalists is rare in the Baroque, and...
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Add this copy of Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli: Sonate da Camera Nos. 7-12 to cart. $24.49, new condition, Sold by Entertainment by Post - UK rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BRISTOL, SOUTH GLOS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2019 by Delphian.
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