| |  | Music : Corelli: Violin Sonatas, Op. 5, Nos. 1-12 - Complete |  | | | | | | | | | | from: Harmonia Mundi
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093046729820
Format: Import
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Harmonia Mundi
Release Date: March 11, 2003
Sales Rank: 39701
Studio: Harmonia Mundi
Disc 1:- Sonata I In D Major
- Sonata I In D Major
- Sonata I In D Major
- Sonata I In D Major
- Sonata I In D Major
- Sonata II In B-Flat Major
- Sonata II In B-Flat Major
- Sonata II In B-Flat Major
- Sonata II In B-Flat Major
- Sonata II In B-Flat Major
- Sonata III In C Major
- Sonata III In C Major
- Sonata III In C Major
- Sonata III In C Major
- Sonata III In C Major
- Sonata IV In F Major
- Sonata IV In F Major
- Sonata IV In F Major
- Sonata IV In F Major
- Sonata IV In F Major
- Sonata V In G Minor
- Sonata V In G Minor
- Sonata V In G Minor
- Sonata V In G Minor
- Sonata V In G Minor
- Sonata VI In A Major
- Sonata VI In A Major
- Sonata VI In A Major
- Sonata VI In A Major
- Sonata VI In A Major
Disc 2:- Sonata VII In D Minor
- Sonata VII In D Minor
- Sonata VII In D Minor
- Sonata VII In D Minor
- Sonata VIII In E Minor
- Sonata VIII In E Minor
- Sonata VIII In E Minor
- Sonata VIII In E Minor
- Sonata IX In A Major
- Sonata IX In A Major
- Sonata IX In A Major
- Sonata IX In A Major
- Sonata X In F Major
- Sonata X In F Major
- Sonata X In F Major
- Sonata X In F Major
- Sonata X In F Major
- Sonata XI In E Major
- Sonata XI In E Major
- Sonata XI In E Major
- Sonata XI In E Major
- Sonata XI In E Major
- Sonata XII In D Minor, 'Follia'
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Corelli's Op. 5 Violin Sonatas have always been admired by chamber music fans; there are a couple of good recordings of them already available. But this new one by Baroque specialist and virtuoso Andrew Manze and harpsichordist Richard Egarr presents the sonatas in such a bright, exciting, and improvisatory light that they seem brand new. During the composer's lifetime, these sonatas were widely played and tremendously influential; there's a good chance that it was assumed that virtuosi took what was written on the page as a starting point for embellishing and sheer showing off. Manze is breathtaking--fast, articulate, conscious of the genuinely good tunes some of these sonatas contain--and his variances from the written music are thrilling. Egarr knows how to embellish too, and he matches Manze every step of the way. If you're wondering if 131 minutes of only two instruments can keep your interest, don't worry. This will. --Robert Levine
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Outstanding musicality
Like a lot of Italian High Baroque music, the scores for these sonatas are rather minimalist, and played strictly as written, these pieces can come across as drab harmony exercises. Manze and Egarr take the score as merely a starting point, in true High Baroque fashion, improvising with an impressive combination of stylistic accuracy, control, and passion that one virtually never hears in classical music.
The fire and immediacy of these performances is exceptional - the sheer joy of ... Read More
Rating: - What The Baroque Alone Can Do
There's something in the greatest of baroque music that it alone can do - a kind of grace in suspended passion, angular sour biting lines that somehow are sweet without being sickly sweet, a mathematical precision that is not arid.It's all here in Arcangelo Corelli's great and generous gift to us all.
I think this music is best listened to on a night when one is physically ill or one is simply too spiritually ill to go much furthur without some sort of stroking of the soul.When ... Read More
Rating: - Music to delight the head--and heart
Confession: I have never loved these sonatas.Respected them, yes, of course; but with a polite detachment that their exclusively intellectual and technical achievements seemed to merit.
Well, this album changed all that.It's a masterly performance, effortlessly virtuosic, that shows forth the music in all its lapidary clarity.More than that, though: it is also luminously expressive, replete with moments of such unadorned and lyrical tenderness that the heart opens up, amazed. ... Read More
Rating: - Captivating
I usually think of Corelli as nice "background music," pleasant, but without the emotional depth of Vivaldi, Bach or Handel.However, with this disc I find myself stopping and losing myself in the beautiful tones of Manze's baroque violin.The playing is superb and subtle, revealing these pieces as intimate and poetic.Harmonia Mundi's recording quality is excellent as well.Highly recommended. I can't wait to see what the venerable English Concert does under Manze's new leadership.
Rating:  - pure italian baroque
this is really fine music. corelli is the paragon of the "italian" style of baroque (at least until vivaldi caught bach's attention), and these sonatas are perhaps finer than the italianate sonatas by handel. there is marvelous poetry and variety in these pieces, brought forward by the spare instrumentation of violin, bass and harpsichord, and everything is wrapped in corelli's creamy, effortless, halcyon musical world.
my reservation is that manze at times takes these pieces with a raspy ... Read More
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