Various - Chamber Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

John Ernst Galliard (Celle, 1687 - London, 1747) was a German composer, oboist, flutist and keyboardist active in England in the first half of the 18th century. The son of Jean Galliard, a French wigmaker, he learned to play the flute and oboe from Pierre Maréchal, a French member of Celle's court orchestra. He himself joined the orchestra in 1698 and, shortly afterwards, studied composition in nearby Hanover with Agostino Steffani and Jean Baptiste Farinelli. In 1706 Galliard went to London (like his compatriot Georg Friedrich Händel), where he became court musician to Prince George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne of Great Britain, and later also chapel master at Somerset House. Galliard enjoyed an excellent reputation as an oboist, and so joined the orchestra of the Queen's Theatre, playing in various performances of works by Handel, who wrote oboe parts especially for him. The Six Sonatas for Recorder and Harpsichord were published in London in 1711. In this collection there is an elegant and smooth fusion of styles from the orderly counterpoint of the youth in Hannover to the virtuosity and brio of the Italian baroque, from the flavor of the English tradition that only occasionally transpires to the nuances of French taste that are evident in several movements. Played by Fabio Martignago, who learned his art with specialists like Dan Laurin, Kees Boeke, Han Tol, Stefano Bagliano, Lorenzo Cavasanti, Manuel Staropoli and Alfredo Bernardini. Angelica Selmo studied with Luca Guglielmo and followed master classes with Pierre Hantaï, Roberto Loreggian, Skip Sempé and Bart van Oort. Album Tracks 1. 6 Sonatas for Recorder & Harpischord Op. 1~Sonata No. 1 in C Largo 2. 6 Sonatas for Recorder & Harpischord Op. 1~Sonata No. 1 in C Allegro 3. 6 Sonatas for Recorder & Harpischord Op. 1~Sonata No. 1 in C Largo 4. 6 Sonatas for Recorder & Harpis

Album Tracks 1. Melody for 2 Violins 2. Minuet for VN and Pno 3. Ballad for VN and Pno in D 4. 4 Pieces for VN and Pno, Op.17, Quasi Ballata 5. 4 Pieces for VN and Pno, Op.17, Appassionato 6. 4 Pieces for VN and Pno, Op.17, Un Poco Triste 7. 4 Pieces for VN and Pno, Op.17, Burlesca 8. Ballad for VC and Pno in D, Op.3, No.1 9. Serenade for VC and Pno in a, Op.3, No.2 10. Bagatelle for FL, VN and Pno 'With Nosegay in Hand 11. Barcarolle (Ii. Andante Con Moto from STR QT in D 12. Ballad for STR QT in D 13. Elegy for VN, VC, STR QT, Harm, HP, Op.23 14. Sousedska for 5 VNS, DB, Cym, TL, Side and Bass Drum

The Milanese composer Riccardo Malipiero was born in Milan in 1914 and took lessons with his uncle, Gian Francesco Malipiero in the late 30s. Malipiero disowned all that he wrote up until 1938 and saved only a small amount of that written before 1945 the surviving early pieces show the influence of his uncle's teaching and the neo-classicism of Casella and Stravinsky. However, influenced by Luigi Dallapiccola, he came to embrace a personal, lyrical language of 12-tone composition which ultimately traces it's roots back to the music of Berg. The four-movement Violin Sonata from 1956 makes an ideal introduction to Riccardo Malipiero's music, with a nervous, waltz-like Scherzo and a frozen slow movement leading into the finale's extensive violin cadenza, beautifully written for the instrument and played here by Rebecca Raimondi with burning conviction as well as ferocious accuracy (she included the sonata within her Master's recital at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, from which she graduated in 2017). At her graduation recital she was accompanied by Alessandro Viale, and together with the other members of the Rest Ensemble they have given concerts of Malipiero's music in both the UK and Italy, lending to these studio recordings the ring of intimacy and impassioned authenticity that is rare in recordings of unfamiliar modernist music. The Piano Trio of 1969 sets a tougher challenge to both performers and listeners, more angular and explosive, yet still imbued with a strain of wit and grace that runs through his output.