Mascitti: Sonate a violino solo e basso, Opera Nona Quartetto Vanvitelli

• Michele Mascitti (1663 - 1760): Sonata for Violin and Continuo in A Major, Op. 9 No. 1:
• 1 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in A Major, Op. 9 No. 1: I. Larghetto 01:28
• 2 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in A Major, Op. 9 No. 1: II. Allegro 02:54
• 3 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in A Major, Op. 9 No. 1: III. Sarabanta (Largo) 02:48
• 4 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in A Major, Op. 9 No. 1: IV. Allegro moderato 03:18
• Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G Minor, Op. 9 No. 2 :
• 5 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G Minor, Op. 9 No. 2 : I. Larghetto 01:46
• 6 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G Minor, Op. 9 No. 2 : II. Allemanda (Allegro) 02:30
• 7 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G Minor, Op. 9 No. 2 : III. Largo 02:16
• 8 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G Minor, Op. 9 No. 2 : IV. Allegro 01:41
• Sonata for Violin and Continuo in F Major, Op. 9 No. 3 :
• 9 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in F Major, Op. 9 No. 3 : I. Vivace 02:41
• 10 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in F Major, Op. 9 No. 3 : II. Adagio 00:42
• 11 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in F Major, Op. 9 No. 3 : III. Allegro moderato 01:29
• 12 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in F Major, Op. 9 No. 3 : IV. Larghetto et affettuoso 01:56
• 13 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in F Major, Op. 9 No. 3 : V. Allegro 02:12
• Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Minor, Op. 9 No. 5:
• 14 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Minor, Op. 9 No. 5: I. Un poco andante 01:26
• 15 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Minor, Op. 9 No. 5: II. Allemanda (Allegro) 02:39
• 16 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Minor, Op. 9 No. 5: III. Adagio 01:29
• 17 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Minor, Op. 9 No. 5: IV. Allegro 02:09
• Sonata for Violin and Continuo in A Minor, Op. 9 No. 6:
• 18 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in A Minor, Op. 9 No. 6: I. Andante 02:17
• 19 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in A Minor, Op. 9 No. 6: II. Allegro 01:59
• 20 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in A Minor, Op. 9 No. 6: III. Largo et affettuoso 02:16
• 21 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in A Minor, Op. 9 No. 6: IV. Allegro moderato 02:38
• Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Major, Op. 9 No. 7:
• 22 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Major, Op. 9 No. 7: I. Vivace 01:27
• 23 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Major, Op. 9 No. 7: II. Largo 00:35
• 24 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Major, Op. 9 No. 7: III. Allegro 01:45
• 25 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Major, Op. 9 No. 7: IV. Largo 01:36
• 26 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Major, Op. 9 No. 7: V. Allegro 02:56
• Sonata for Violin and Continuo in B-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 9:
• 27 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in B-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 9: I. Un poco andante 01:52
• 28 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in B-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 9: II. Allegro 01:54
• 29 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in B-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 9: III. Largo 01:48
• 30 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in B-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 9: IV. Allegro 02:20
• Sonata for Violin and Continuo in C Minor, Op. 9 No. 12:
• 31 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in C Minor, Op. 9 No. 12: I. Adagio 01:35
• 32 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in C Minor, Op. 9 No. 12: II. Allegro 01:54
• 33 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in C Minor, Op. 9 No. 12: III. Adagio 01:36
• 34 Sonata for Violin and Continuo in C Minor, Op. 9 No. 12: IV. Allegro 02:52
• Total Runtime 01:08:44

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In 1738 the acclaimed violinist and composer Michele Mascitti (1664-1760) published in Paris his ninth collection of sonatas. The seventy-four-year-old Neapolitan musician was at the end of his long and celebrated career, but not of his creative powers. Dedicated to the Crozat family, which was to be Mascitti’s patron until the end of his life, the twelve sonatas for violin and bass op. 9 are fine examples of the graceful blend of Italian and French styles that made this composer so popular in France. With the world premiere of Mascitti’s op. 9, the Quartetto Vanvitelli carries on the rediscovery of this music that Hubert Le Blanc likened ‘to the warbling of the nightingale’. After the success of their interpretation of Mascitti’s op. 8, greeted as ‘a jewel of interpretation that exalts with grace, elegance and, more importantly, finesse of touch, the individual stylistic experimentation of Mascitti’ (A 111), the ensemble Vanvitelli makes with this recording another decisive step towards the full appreciation of this remarkable and unjustly forgotten composer.

Quartetto Vanvitelli

Quartetto Vanvitelli
The Quartetto Vanvitelli, born in 2017, is an Italian Baroque group composed by Gian Andrea Guerra, Nicola Brovelli, Luigi Accardo and Mauro Pinciaroli, musicians with concert activities carried out in the most important festivals of the sector such as Festival Monteverdi, MiTo, Ravenna Festival, Stresa Festiva, Roma Europa Festival, Echi Lontani, Regie Sinfonie, Grandezze e Meraviglie, Anima Mundi.

The Quartet has decided to contribute to the heritage of the baroque music by taking an interest in new music never published, recording two records for the prestigious label Arcana (Outhere Music). The quartet’s work has been enthusiastically received by the main European specialized magazines (Diapason, Musica, Amadeus, BBC Music Magazine, Deutschlandfunk, and many others). The music, the sonatas for violin and basso continuo op.8 and op.9 by Michele Mascitti, represents an idea of the Neapolitan period of the early 18th century in a surprising mix with the French style. The Mascitti sonatas are a happy synthesis of the various stylistic influences, both Italian and transalpine, assimilated by the author in the most diverse environments that have characterized his professional and human life. The melodic gesture that opens the entire collection of opera VIII, accompanied by the bass “passeggiato”, cannot help but remind us that Corelli remained the reference model for the entire compositional work of Mascitti.

In a musical path in which slow and fast movements alternate, dance movements are added or interpolated, but this is not the only pecularity: in fact to the gallant rhythms and cadences, Mascitti however also combines harmonic solutions and movements that evoke characteristics of Neapolitan vocal and instrumental music. Without doubt the role of Mascitti and other Neapolitan musicians, who at the beginning of the eighteenth century conquered the Parisian public, was decisive for the diffusion of Italian music in France and for the development of the French instrumental tradition. Already in 1713 an article on Mercure galant acknowledged its merits, stating, a little emphatically, that “Corelli, Albinoni, Michel [Mascitti] and many others have composed [so- nate] that will remain immortal and that few can equal.”

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