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The Trattenimenti Armonici per Camera, Divisi in Dodici Sonate a Violino e Cembalo, Op. 6 were printed in Amsterdam by Estienne Roger and Le Cene. The twelve chamber sonatas, composed originally for violin, bass viol and harpsichord all have the same, four-movement structure based on the traditional adagio-allegro-adagio-allegro form. This CD contains six of the twelve sonatas that make up the Trattenimenti performed by recorder with harpsichord, lute and cello accompaniment. The decision to entrust the solo part to the recorder, in apparent contradiction to what the composer himself indicated in the frontispiece, is actually fully-justified by eighteenth-century performance practice. The melodic elegance, harmonic equilibrium and geometric structure created by Albinoni make these sonatas a veritable gem of inestimable worth whose beauty we have striven to offer in one of it's innumerable facets. Album Tracks 1. Grave Adagio 2. Allegro 3. Adagio 4. Allegro 5. Grave 6. Allegro 7. Adagio 8. Allegro 9. Grave Adagio 10. Larghetto 11. Adagio 12. Allegro 13. Grave Adagio 14. Allegro 15. Adagio 16. Allegro 17. Grave Adagio 18. Larghetto 19. Largo 20. Allegro 21. Grave Adagio 22. Allegro Assai 23. Adagio 24. Allegro
