Corradini: Canzonas and Sonatas Ensemble Il Narvalo & Federico del Sordo

• Niccolò Corradini (1585 - 1646): Canzonas:
• 1 Corradini: Canzon prima - La Pallavicina 04:14
• 2 Corradini: Canzon seconda - La Sartirana 04:21
• 3 Corradini: Canzon terza - L'argenta 04:59
• 4 Corradini: Canzon quarta - La Sforza 04:08
• 5 Corradini: Canzon quinta - La Visconta 03:15
• 6 Corradini: Canzon sexta - La Sincopata 04:31
• 7 Corradini: Canzon settima - La Bizzarra 05:57
• 8 Corradini: Canzon ottava - La Treccha 05:37
• 9 Corradini: Canzon nona - La Pessa 02:55
• 10 Corradini: Canzon decima - La Taverna 02:55
• Suonatas:
• 11 Corradini: Suonata a quattro, 2 bassi & 2 soprani - La Soragna 05:42
• 12 Corradini: Suonata a tre, basso & 2 soprani - La Marcha 03:15
• Suonata:
• 13 Corradini: Suonata a due, basso & soprano - La Sfrondata 03:40
• Suonata:
• 14 Corradini: Suonata a due cornetti in risposta - La Golferamma 03:23
• Total Runtime 58:52

Info for Corradini: Canzonas and Sonatas

Works attributable with certainty to Nicolò Corradini (1585–1646) – likely from Cremona as opposed to Bergamo or Rome as erroneously suggested in the past – are limited to a few printed editions, among them the Primo libro de Canzoni francesi a 4 e alcune suonate (a copy of which has come down to us, printed by Gardano in Venice in 1624). It includes ten French canzonas and four sonatas, works most likely conceived to be performed by several instrumentalists, including one or more possible continuists (because of the speed of some passages and the separation between different parts of often more than an octave).

The canzonas are divided into several sections with structures ranging from simple A-B-A to more complex schemes (A-B-C-A-B-D in the Eighth Canzon); these short musical frameworks offer within them a great variety of themes, imitation between parts and repetitions of sections, ensuring cohesiveness of form.

The sonatas on the other hand – with the exception of the Suonata a tre (a simple A-B-C-D-A) – are presented in a more madrigalistic vein. The narrative pathway on which they are based passes through multiple melodic cues so completely different from one another as to suggest a rhetorical structure arching from an exordium to a final peroration. This leads to a proliferation of sections – A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I in the case of the Suonata a due cornetti in risposta. (The specification for two cornets “in call and response” contained in the title of this sonata corresponds to the numerous segments of this piece in which the same melody is first proposed by one performer and then repeated by the other.)

Ensemble Il Narvalo
Federico Del Sordo, harpsichord, organ & conductor

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