Tartini: Trio Sonatas

With 37 confirmed trio sonatas to his credit, Giuseppe Tartini is the most important Italian composer of his generation for this type of repertoire. It may seem odd therefore that these works have been so sorely neglected; indeed, as of 2022 only around 20 per cent of the repertoire had been recorded and a critical edition had yet to be published. This state of affairs was largely due to confusion regarding sources, with many divergent interpretations and uncertainties regarding the dates of the handwritten scores.

Tartini’s 3-part Sonatas are modeled in 2 or 3 movements, slow-fast or fast-slow-fast, and bear witness of the incredible skill of Tartini’s string playing, being highly melodious works of great beauty and charm. They are played here with two violins, cello and harpsichord.

Composer: Giuseppe Tartini
Artist: Il Demetrio, Maurizio Schiavo - violin I, Ayako Matsunaga - violin II, Antonio Papetti – cello & Danilo Costantini - harpsichord

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Production of the trio sonatas began in the composer’s late-mature years, and their style would seem to correspond to Tartini’s final compositional period, described as a Drang nach absoluter Musik [urge for absolute music], which began around 1750 without a clear line of demarcation from what came before and continued until the composer’s death. The trend was towards simplicity, partly deriving from Tartini’s desire to put his theoretical speculations into practice. The trio sonatas no longer feature the virtuoso passages of earlier works. They present a binary form with regular phrasing. Their harmonic rhythm is slow, with the violins mainly proceeding in parallel triplets. The function of the bass is relegated one of harmonic support.

This recording contains the sonatas G1, D1, d1 A1, A2, A3, A6, and a1, which date to Tartini’s final compositional sub-period. They are little-known pieces, most of them hitherto unpublished.

Tracklist:
0:00:00 Trio Sonata in G Major, G01: I. Andante
00:04:00 Trio Sonata in G Major, G01: II. Allegro assai
00:05:59 Trio Sonata in A Major, A02: I. Andantino
00:08:55 Trio Sonata in A Major, A02: II. Allegro
00:10:54 Trio Sonata in D Major, D01: I. Allegro
00:15:42 Trio Sonata in D Major, D01: II. Andante
00:19:07 Trio Sonata in D Major, D01: III. Allegro
00:20:56 Trio Sonata in A Major, A06: I. Andante
00:27:42 Trio Sonata in A Major, A06: II. Allegro
00:31:58 Trio Sonata in D Minor, d01: I. Andantino
00:34:52 Trio Sonata in D Minor, d01: II. Allegro
00:36:59 Trio Sonata in A Major, A03: I. Andante
00:40:27 Trio Sonata in A Major, A03: II. Allegro
00:42:52 Trio Sonata in A Minor, a01: I. Andante cantabile
00:46:46 Trio Sonata in A Minor, a01: II. Allegro assai
00:50:22 Trio Sonata in A Major, A01: I. Allegro assai
00:52:16 Trio Sonata in A Major, A01: II. Andante
00:53:51 Trio Sonata in A Major, A01: III. Allegro assai

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