Platti: Sonate à tre Radio Antiqua

• Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697 - 1763): Sonata for Violin, Violoncello and Basso Continuo in D Major, WD 681:
• 1 Sonata for Violin, Violoncello and Basso Continuo in D Major, WD 681: I. Grave 03:16
• 2 Sonata for Violin, Violoncello and Basso Continuo in D Major, WD 681: II. Allegro 03:16
• 3 Sonata for Violin, Violoncello and Basso Continuo in D Major, WD 681: III. Siciliana 03:54
• 4 Sonata for Violin, Violoncello and Basso Continuo in D Major, WD 681: IV. Gigha 03:28
• Sonata for Oboe, Bassoon and Basso Continuo in C Minor, WD 695:
• 5 Sonata for Oboe, Bassoon and Basso Continuo in C Minor, WD 695: I. Adagio 02:26
• 6 Sonata for Oboe, Bassoon and Basso Continuo in C Minor, WD 695: II. Allegro 02:59
• 7 Sonata for Oboe, Bassoon and Basso Continuo in C Minor, WD 695: III. [Largo] 01:41
• 8 Sonata for Oboe, Bassoon and Basso Continuo in C Minor, WD 695: IV. Allegro 02:08
• Sonata for Violin, Violoncello and Basso Continuo in E Minor, WD 677:
• 9 Sonata for Violin, Violoncello and Basso Continuo in E Minor, WD 677: I. Non tanto adagio 03:30
• 10 Sonata for Violin, Violoncello and Basso Continuo in E Minor, WD 677: II. Alla breve 02:34
• 11 Sonata for Violin, Violoncello and Basso Continuo in E Minor, WD 677: III. Largho 05:10
• 12 Sonata for Violin, Violoncello and Basso Continuo in E Minor, WD 677: IV. Presto 03:00
• Sonata for Violin, Bassoon and Basso Continuo in C Minor, WD 694:
• 13 Sonata for Violin, Bassoon and Basso Continuo in C Minor, WD 694: I. Allegro 01:59
• 14 Sonata for Violin, Bassoon and Basso Continuo in C Minor, WD 694: II. Adagio 04:08
• 15 Sonata for Violin, Bassoon and Basso Continuo in C Minor, WD 694: III. Allegro 03:14
• Sonata for Violin, Oboe and Basso Continuo in D Major, WD 682:
• 16 Sonata for Violin, Oboe and Basso Continuo in D Major, WD 682: I. Largho 04:34
• 17 Sonata for Violin, Oboe and Basso Continuo in D Major, WD 682: II. Allegro 03:53
• 18 Sonata for Violin, Oboe and Basso Continuo in D Major, WD 682: III. Largho 03:11
• 19 Sonata for Violin, Oboe and Basso Continuo in D Major, WD 682: IV. Non tanto presto 02:51
• Sonata for Violin, Bassoon and Basso Continuo in D Minor, WD 687:
• 20 Sonata for Violin, Bassoon and Basso Continuo in D Minor, WD 687: I. Largho 03:02
• 21 Sonata for Violin, Bassoon and Basso Continuo in D Minor, WD 687: II. Presto 02:09
• 22 Sonata for Violin, Bassoon and Basso Continuo in D Minor, WD 687: III. Largho 03:27
• 23 Sonata for Violin, Bassoon and Basso Continuo in D Minor, WD 687: IV. Gigha 02:39
• Total Runtime 01:12:29

Info for Platti: Sonate à tre

Giovanni Benedetto Platti was born in northern Italy and spent some of his youth in Venice, where his father was a violetta player at St Mark’s, before he received his court appointment as an oboist and violinist at the court chapel of Würzburg in 1722. Two years later, the music-loving and cello- playing count of Schönborn, Rudolf Franz Erwein, had managed to secure him as a musician for his own household at his small residence in the county of Wiesentheid. Platti composed - in addition to his ordinary ouptut for worldly and spiritual occasions - for the cello, the Count’s favourite instrument: a dozen sonatas, 28 concerti, 6 duets and over 21 trio sonatas in which the two melodic instruments are not playing at the same height. The music collection of the counts of Schönborn- Wiesentheid very probably consists of Erwein’s personal music library and is today an important historical music archive. Radio Antiqua present in partly world premiere six trio sonatas from that collection, which the count could presumably have played with Platti.

Radio Antiqua

Radio Antiqua
was founded in The Hague in 2012 by a group of young international musicians specialized in the performance of early music on period instruments.

Winner of both jury’s and public’s prize at the International Händel-Festspiele Göttingen Competition 2014, it has been invited as Artist in Residence of the Centre Culturel d’Ambronay (France), Collegio Ghislieri in Pavia (Italy), and Károlyi-Kastély (Hungary).

The ensemble regularly performs in many specialized series in The Netherlands and has appeared at important international festivals such as Innsbrucker Festwochen Der Alten Musick (Austria), Göttingen Händel Festival (Germany), Grachten Festival, Utrecht Oude Muziek Festival (The Netherlands), Festival d’Ambronay (France) and Pavia Barocca (Italy).

Their first CD “Forgotten Treasures of the German Baroque” will be released by Ambronay Editions in September 2015.

This season’s performances include Istanbul’s Opus Amadeus Chamber Music Festival and the concert series of the Händel House in Halle (Germany). Radio Antiqua will form the core of the 2015 European Baroque Academy during an extensive European tour, directed by Enrico Onofri.

In 2015 they will continue to be supported by Eeemerging, a large-scale European cooperation project which promotes the emergence of new talent in early music.

Showcasing a varied instrumentation which features violin, recorders, dulcian, baroque bassoon, lute, baroque guitar, theorbo, harpsichord, cello and organ, its repertoire ranges from the Seicento to pre-classicism. Radio Antiqua delivers multiform performances engaging their audience with a fresh and dynamic approach to live music-making.

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