Flights of Fantasy: Early Italian Chamber Music

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There’s always an electric jolt about Huggett’s gut-stringed violin, and she needs every surge of energy for the virtuoso tricks of 17th-century Italian and Italianate chamber music...Huggett’s... — The Times, 18th September 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 13th Sep 2010
Catalogue No: AV2202
Label: Avie
Length: 78 minutes

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Castello, D: Sonata decimaquarta à 4, due soprani e due tromboni overo violete

Work length6:37

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Irish Baroque Orchestra
Monica Huggett

Farina, C: Capriccio Stravagante: Capriccio Stravagante

Work length15:45

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Irish Baroque Orchestra
Monica Huggett

Cavalli: Sonate à 6

Work length5:29

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Irish Baroque Orchestra
Monica Huggett

Marini, B: Passacaglio à 4

Work length5:22

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Monica Huggett

H.I.F. von Biber: Harmonia Artificiosa Partia VI: Harmonia Artificiosa Partia VI

Work length16:14

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Monica Huggett

Legrenzi: La Fugazza - Sonate à 5

Work length4:50

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Irish Baroque Orchestra
Monica Huggett

Castello, D: Sonata seconda a sopran solo

Work length5:12

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Monica Huggett

Bertali: Sonata a 5

Work length8:16

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Monica Huggett

Frescobaldi: Canzona Terza: Canzona Terza

Work length4:23

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Monica Huggett

Castello, D: Sonata decima sesta à 4 per stromenti d’arco

Work length6:41

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Irish Baroque Orchestra
Monica Huggett

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Flights of Fantasy' presents Monica Huggett and her Irish Baroque Orchestra exploring the remarkable range, diversity and whimsy of Italian baroque chamber music.

Think you know Italian baroque chamber music? Think again. The range, diversity – and even wackiness – is remarkable, as illustrated by Flights of Fantasy, an album of acute inventiveness by Avie stalwart Monica Huggett and the chamber soloists of her Irish Baroque Orchestra. Take Carlo Farina’s Capriccio Stravagante, which translates as “outlandish whim”, and imitates barking dogs, meowing cats and gunfire. More serious, but no less virtuosic, experimental forms occur in works by Marini, Castello, Legrenzi, and Cavalli – the Venetian best known for his operas – all heard on this album. Created in 1996, the period-instrument Irish Baroque Orchestra occupies a fundamental place in Ireland’s musical landscape. Ten years in, the mantle of artistic director was assumed by Monica Huggett, who has created a decades-long career of critically acclaimed and award-winning recordings, including the Billboard chart-topping, Grammy-nominated Bach Orchestral Suites on Avie (AV2171).

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18th September 2010

There’s always an electric jolt about Huggett’s gut-stringed violin, and she needs every surge of energy for the virtuoso tricks of 17th-century Italian and Italianate chamber music...Huggett’s in the best of company with nine spirited soloists from the Irish Baroque Orchestra.

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