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On three previous discs, London Baroque has charted the emergence of the trio sonata in France, England and Germany during the 17th century. Now returning to England, the ensemble has devised a programme consisting of works composed during the following century, and demonstrating the huge influence of Corelli, as well as tendencies - in the later works - towards the newer galant and pre-classical styles. The list of composers includes Handel, whose position in the musical life of his adopted country gives him pride of place with no less than two sonatas. Another London-based German, Karl Friedrich Abel, is also represented on the disc. Among the home-grown talent we find Thomas Arne, today primarily famous for having written Rule Britannia, as well as William Boyce, John Ravenscroft and others.
London Baroque's grand tour of Europe in the footsteps of the trio sonata has been warmly received by the reviewers. Their previous English sojourn was described in Strad Magazine as 'carefully considered performances [which] radiate real empathy with the idiom', while the visit to the France of Lully, Marais and the Couperins, according to the German website Klassik Heute offered 'everything that one might possibly wish for ... charm, elegance, eloquence, force, flexibility, fire, intimacy, and the most important: soul.' The German instalment, released in March 2008, also received a warm welcome, for instance in American Record Guide: 'a wonderful anthology ... This is absolutely gorgeous music, played with confidence and distinction.'
BBC Music Magazine
Gluzman produces a ravishing sound throughout the range, plays the slow movement [of the Korngold] with radiant sensitivity and lights up the finale with a series of scintillating pyrotechnical displays...if you adore, say, the Khachaturian Concerto [Dvarionas] is well worth investigating.
Classic FM Magazine
[Gluzman] offers a hearty, full-blooded romantic tone of exceptional beauty, but is also wonderfully sensitive to colour and shadow...Järvi and the Residentie Orchestra are sympathetic companions and deliver sweeping idioms with panache.
Gramophone Magazine
If you see [the Korngold] in terms of old-style movie glamour, with generous vibrato and highly burnished sound, then this may well appeal...[Gluzman's] ability to spin a line is particularly telling in the vocally inflected slow movement, with portamento duly applied but not overdone...Dvarionas's By the Lake is a charming miniature, here ardently played.
Recording information: Länna Church, Sweden (03/2009).
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Works Details
Ravenscroft, John : Sonata Ottava for 2 violins & continuo - Running Time: 5 min. 8 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 1695
Handel, George Frideric : Trio sonata for 2 violins & continuo in G minor, Op. 2/5, HWV 390 - Running Time: 10 min. 7 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 1717-1718
Avison, Charles : Trio Sonata for 2 violins & continuo no 1, Op. 1 - Running Time: 1 min. 53 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
- Form: Chamber Music
Boyce, William : Trio Sonata no 5 in D major - Running Time: 7 min. 11 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
Arne, Thomas Augustine : Trio Sonata for 2 violins & continuo no 2 in G major - Running Time: 1 min. 48 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
Handel, George Frideric : Trio sonata for 2 violins & continuo in D major, Op. 5/2, HWV 397 - Running Time: 4 min. 4 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Abel, Carl Friedrich : Trio Sonata for 2 violins & continuo in G major, Op. 3/1 - Running Time: 9 min. 16 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
- Form: Chamber Music
- Written: 1761
Erskine, Thomas : Trio Sonata no 6 in G major - Running Time: 10 min. 2 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
