Mancini: Solos for a Flute

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Eight predictable sonatas elevated by characterful performance on various recorders/flute, assorted continuo adding colour. Neglected music which charms as much today as when composed in 1724. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Mar 2014
Catalogue No: CHAN0801
Label: Chandos
Series: Chaconne
Length: 67 minutes

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Mancini, F: Recorder Sonata No. 6 in B-Flat Major

Work length8:11

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Gwyn Roberts, Richard Stone, Adam Pearl, Lisa Terry
Recorded: 18-20 June 2013
Recording Venue: Leith Symington Griswold Hall, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, Maryland

I. Largo

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II. Allegro

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III. Largo

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IV. Allegro

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Mancini, F: Recorder Sonata No. 4 in A minor

Work length8:37

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Gwyn Roberts, Richard Stone, Lisa Terry
Recorded: 18-20 June 2013
Recording Venue: Leith Symington Griswold Hall, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, Maryland

I. Spiritoso. Largo

Track length2:02

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II. Interludio. Allegro

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III. Largo

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IV. Allegro spiccato

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Mancini, F: Recorder Sonata No. 10 in B minor

Work length8:02

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Gwyn Roberts, Adam Pearl
Recorded: 18-20 June 2013
Recording Venue: Leith Symington Griswold Hall, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, Maryland

I. Largo

Track length1:53

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II. Allegro

Track length2:21

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III. Largo

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IV. Allegro

Track length1:46

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Mancini, F: Recorder Sonata No. 12 in G major

Work length8:28

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Gwyn Roberts, Richard Stone, Adam Pearl, Lisa Terry
Recorded: 18-20 June 2013
Recording Venue: Leith Symington Griswold Hall, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, Maryland

I. Allegro - Largo

Track length2:10

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II. Allegro

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III. Andante

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IV. Allegro

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Mancini, F: Recorder Sonata No. 11 in G minor

Work length9:37

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Gwyn Roberts, Richard Stone, Adam Pearl
Recorded: 18-20 June 2013
Recording Venue: Leith Symington Griswold Hall, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, Maryland

I. Un poco andante

Track length2:44

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II. Allegro

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III. Largo

Track length2:23

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IV. Allegro

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Mancini, F: Recorder Sonata No. 1 in D minor

Work length8:43

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Gwyn Roberts, Richard Stone
Recorded: 18-20 June 2013
Recording Venue: Leith Symington Griswold Hall, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, Maryland

I. Amoroso

Track length2:03

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II. Allegro

Track length2:16

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III. Largo

Track length2:05

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IV. Allegro

Track length2:19

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Mancini, F: Recorder Sonata No. 2 in E minor

Work length8:13

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Gwyn Roberts, Adam Pearl, Lisa Terry
Recorded: 18-20 June 2013
Recording Venue: Leith Symington Griswold Hall, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, Maryland

I. Andante

Track length1:29

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II. Allegro

Track length2:29

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III. Largo

Track length1:46

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IV. Allegro

Track length2:29

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Mancini, F: Recorder Sonata No. 5 in D major

Work length7:23

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Gwyn Roberts, Richard Stone, Adam Pearl, Lisa Terry
Recorded: 18-20 June 2013
Recording Venue: Leith Symington Griswold Hall, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, Maryland

I. Allegro - Largo

Track length2:01

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II. Allegro

Track length2:17

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III. Largo

Track length1:33

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IV. Allegro

Track length1:32

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Born in 1672 in Naples where he trained as an organist and composer, Francesco Mancini became one of the most prominent composers of Neapolitan opera in the eighteenth century.

The Solos for a Flute, published in 1724, were a collection of Sonatas dedicated to John Fleetwood, the English consul to Naples and himself an amateur flautist. Hoping to gain himself a steady remunerative position in England, Mancini designed this flattering dedication to take advantage of the popularity of Italian music in London and the rise in prominence of wind music at the time. Fleetwood died the year after the Solos were published and Mancini never moved from his native Italy. The quality of these works was nevertheless recognised in England and the Solos for a Flute achieved great success. The Sonatas, as the individual Solos are called, follow the usual four- or five-movement structure established by Corelli, wildly popular in England at the time. Clear Neapolitan influences are present, however, in elements such as the minor tonalities and almost operatic melodies employed in the slow movements.

This collection of substantial excerpts from the set is performed by the Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players, the Philadelphia-based early music ensemble, which has been recording exclusively for Chandos since 2004. Gwyn Roberts, co-director of the ensemble, playing a variety of period flutes and recorders, is the soloist.

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June 2014

Eight predictable sonatas elevated by characterful performance on various recorders/flute, assorted continuo adding colour. Neglected music which charms as much today as when composed in 1724.

13th October 2014

This is first-class entertainment, and, considering the theatrical aspects of these sonatas, often more than that.

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