Gatti, L: Six Sonatas for Violin & Viola

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Release Date: 18th Apr 2011
Catalogue No: 94145
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 86 minutes

Gatti, L: 6 Sonatas for Violin and Viola, Sonata No. 1 in B-Flat Major

Work length13:11

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Paolo Ghidoni, Alfredo Zamarra

I. Allegro aperto

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II. Adagio

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III. Rondo. Allegro con moto

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Gatti, L: 6 Sonatas for Violin and Viola, Sonata No. 2 in D Major

Work length14:55

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Paolo Ghidoni, Alfredo Zamarra

I. Andante

Track length8:54

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II. Adagio cantabile

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III. Tempo di minuetto

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Gatti, L: 6 Sonatas for Violin and Viola, Sonata No. 3 in A Major

Work length13:21

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Paolo Ghidoni, Alfredo Zamarra

I. Allegro aperto

Track length5:47

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II. Adagio

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III. Rondo. Allegretto

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Gatti, L: 6 Sonatas for Violin and Viola, Sonata No. 4 in F Major

Work length12:02

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Paolo Ghidoni, Alfredo Zamarra

I. Cantabile - Allegro con spirito

Track length6:10

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II. Minuetto

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III. Finale. Allegro assai

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Gatti, L: 6 Sonatas for Violin and Viola, Sonata No. 5 in E-Flat Major

Work length17:24

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Paolo Ghidoni, Alfredo Zamarra

I. Moderato

Track length7:59

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II. Larghetto espressivo

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III. Allegretto grazioso

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Gatti, L: 6 Sonatas for Violin and Viola, Sonata No. 6 in C Major

Work length15:35

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Paolo Ghidoni, Alfredo Zamarra

I. Un Allegro vivace

Track length6:12

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II. Adagio cantabile

Track length5:33

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III. Rondo. Allegretto

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Gatti lived both in Mantua and in Salzburg where he became friends with the Mozart family.

Performed and recorded on 2 most famous instruments: - Violin:Antonio tradivari:‘Vesuvius’ (Cremona, 1727). - Viola:Antonio and Gerolamo Amati: ‘The Stauffer’ (Cremona, 1615).

The sonatas presented in this recording, labelled as Sonate à Violino e Viola in the autograph score at the Biblioteca Musicale Greggiati in Ostiglia and as Sonate Per Violin solo con accompagnamento di Viola in the parts at the Salzburg Museum, are likely to date back to the very beginning of Gatti’s stay in Salzburg. The autograph is written on paper whose watermarks suggest a date of about 1783. If so, the works were probably commissioned by archbishop Colloredo, for whom a similar cycle of six sonatas was composed in the same year by Michael Haydn, MH 335–38, and W. A. Mozart, K 423–24.

(Another set of six by Joseph Hafeneder in the Toggenburg Collection of Bolzano, minus the first sonata, may share the same origin). In which case, the violin part was probably intended for Colloredo himself, a “good performer on the violin” according to Charles Burney.The archbishop was also said to “enjoy performing on the violin, which he played very well” and to be in the habit of “mingling with the court musicians and playing the violin with them” before dinner.

Liner notes by Alessandro Lattanzi, the world’s leading authority on Luigi Gatti.

These sonatas have been played and recorded on two of the most beautiful instruments from the Violins Collection of the Municipality of Cremona: a Stradivari 1727 violin (the so-called Vesuvius") and an Amati 1615 viola ("La Stauffer").

Gatti, L: Six Sonatas for Violin & Viola

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