Wonder in Venice. Galuppi: Sonatas and Concertos for Harpsichord Arianna Radaelli & La Filarete

• Baldassare Galuppi (1706 - 1785): Harpsichord Sonata in F Major, R.A.1.8.06:
• 1 Galuppi: Harpsichord Sonata in F Major, R.A.1.8.06: I. Andantino e con espressione 07:35
• 2 Galuppi: Harpsichord Sonata in F Major, R.A.1.8.06: II. Allegro assai 04:56
• 3 Galuppi: Harpsichord Sonata in F Major, R.A.1.8.06: III. Allegro 01:36
• Harpsichord Sonata in D Minor, R.A.1.04.02:
• 4 Galuppi: Harpsichord Sonata in D Minor, R.A.1.04.02: Allegro 06:24
• Harpsichord Sonata in D Major, R.A.1.03.01:
• 5 Galuppi: Harpsichord Sonata in D Major, R.A.1.03.01: Allegro assai 03:47
• Harpsichord Sonata in G Minor, R.A.1.12.01:
• 6 Galuppi: Harpsichord Sonata in G Minor, R.A.1.12.01: I. Andante 03:31
• 7 Galuppi: Harpsichord Sonata in G Minor, R.A.1.12.01: II. Allegro 02:12
• 8 Galuppi: Harpsichord Sonata in G Minor, R.A.1.12.01: III. Allegro 04:02
• Harpsichord Sonata in B-Flat Major, R.A.1.16.05:
• 9 Galuppi: Harpsichord Sonata in B-Flat Major, R.A.1.16.05: I. Larghetto 07:38
• 10 Galuppi: Harpsichord Sonata in B-Flat Major, R.A.1.16.05: II. Allegro 04:48
• Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in C Minor:
• 11 Galuppi: Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in C Minor: I. Allegro assai 02:59
• 12 Galuppi: Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in C Minor: II. Andantino 03:19
• 13 Galuppi: Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in C Minor: III. Allegro ma non presto 02:36
• Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in F Major:
• 14 Galuppi: Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in F Major: I. Allegro non tanto 04:34
• 15 Galuppi: Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in F Major: II. Grave 05:35
• 16 Galuppi: Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in F Major: III. Presto 03:49
• Total Runtime 01:09:21

Info for Wonder in Venice. Galuppi: Sonatas and Concertos for Harpsichord

To arouse wonder: this was the mission the Baroque bequeathed to the Galant style. The celebrated opera composer and keyboard virtuoso Baldassare Galuppi achieved this by applying tools from the visual arts to music, playing with light, colour, and perspective. The trendsetting fire of his imagination and the sweetness of his cantabiles captured the spirit of the city of Venice with the whimsy and drama of its new Goldonian theatre, earning him renown throughout Europe. Wonder in Venice is a selection of solo sonatas and concertos for harpsichord and strings that showcase the eclecticism of Galuppi’s music, which combines the brilliance of the Venetian Galant style with tempestuous Sturm und Drang outbursts. The young Italian harpsichordist Arianna Radaelli, a brilliant soloist who performs with Il Pomo d'Oro, Zefiro and Jordi Savall, gives Galuppi's keyboard works a new reading which is faithful to historical performance practice, yet also dynamic and audacious. Flanked by the excellent string ensemble La Filarete, she successfully explores the expressivity of this repertoire, which is ripe for rediscovery.

Arianna Radaelli, harpsichord & direction
La Filarete

Arianna Radaelli
graduated in piano under the guidance of Silvia Rumi and Paolo Bordoni at the Milan Conservatory (2015). After high school diploma (classical studies), she attended a Master’s degree in historical keyboards at the Como Conservatory (2017), in Giovanni Togni’s class. She subsequently obtained a Master of Arts in Performance and one in Pedagogy in the classes of Francesco Corti and Andrea Marcon at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (2019, 2021). In 2023 she obtained a Master in Project Management of Artistic and Cultural Events at the 24ORE Business School. Arianna is currently studying orchestra conducting with Gilberto Serembe at the Italian Conducting Academy.


Since 2023 she has been teaching harpsichord, basso continuo and historical performance practice (75%) at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart and she has directed the ancient music department since 2024. Since 2023, she has been teaching basso continuo at the Early Music Courses in Urbino (FIMA). From 2021 to 2023 she taught Generalbass and was correpetitor at Universität Mozarteum Salzburg (100%). Arianna won several solo and chamber music competitions, including the XIX “Paola Bernardi” International Harpsichord Competition in Bologna.

Arianna was a musical assistant in the staging of baroque operas at the “Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen” and “Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik”, and performed on harpsichord, organ and historical piano both as a soloist and as continuo player in renowned ensembles and orchestras, including Il Pomo d’Oro, La Cetra Barockorchester, Abchordis Ensemble, Ensemble Zefiro, Gaechinger Cantorey Stuttgart, Café Zimmermann. She founded the ensemble “Alter Ego” with the traverso player Eleonora Bišćević. They were selected by the Da Vinci Publishing label for the recording of the duo’s first album (released in November 2024) with Corelli’s sonatas op. 5 nos. 1-6 in their historical arrangement for baroque flute. In 2023, the duo was chosen as artists in residence at Schloss Weissenbrunn, with whom the film ‘An Italian Gallery’ was recorded. Arianna collaborates with ‘Europa Danzante’ on interdisciplinary projects in early and contemporary music, baroque and contemporary dance and theatre. Arianna has recently recorded her first solo album with sonatas and concertos for harpsichord by Baldassare Galuppi, to be released in April 2025 by Arcana.

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