Discography

1. Giovanni Battista Fontana (16. Jh. – 1630)
Sonata II a Violino solo

2. Marco Uccellini (1603 – 1680)

Symphonia XX La Virmingarda per poter sonare a due, a tre, a quattro conferme piacerà

3. Marco Uccellini (1603 – 1680)
Sonata XXVI sopra la Prosperina a 3. Doi Violini e Basso

4. Marco Uccellini (1603 – 1680)
Aria sopra la Bergamasca a 2 canti

5. Giovanni Battista Fontana (16. Jh. – 1630)
Sonata III a Violino solo

6. Bernardo Storace (17. Jh.)
Improvisation sopra la Ciaccona Intavolatura per cimbalo

7. Tarquinio Merula (1590/95 – 1665)
Chiaccona Canzone a 2 Violini, e a 3 col Violone

8. Giovanni Battista Fontana (16. Jh. – 1630)

Sonata IV a Violino solo

9. Marco Uccellini (1603 – 1680)

Symphonia XIV La Foschina per poter sonare a due, a tre, a quattro conferme piacerà

10. Salomone Rossi (1570 ? – ca. 1630)

Sinfonia XI in eco a tre voci

11. Dario Castello (frühes 17. Jh.)
Sonata II a Sopran solo

12. Marco Uccellini (1603 – 1680)
Symphonia XVII La Stucharda per poter sonare a due, a tre, a quattro conferme piacerà

13. Tarquinio Merula (1590/95 – 1665)
Canzon XVII La Monteverde a 2. Violino e Violone

14. Tarquinio Merula (1590/95 – 1665)

Canzon La Pighetta a 2. Violino e Violone

15. Alessandro Piccinini (1566–1638)
Toccata 2 Intavolatura di chitarrone

16. Giovanni Battista Fontana (16. Jh. – 1630)

Sonata 6 a Violino solo

17. Tarquinio Merula (1590/95 – 1665)
Canzon La Strada a 3. Doi Violini e Violone

18. Marco Uccellini (1603 – 1680)
Sonata II detta la Luciminia contenta a violino solo

Maurice Steger | recorder & direction
Hille Perl | viola da gamba
Lee Santana | chitarrone
Naoki Kitaya | organ & harpsichord
Sergio Ciomei | harpsichord & organ
Thomas Boysen | theorbo & baroque guitar
Mauro Valli | cello
Margret Köll | baroque harp
Thor-Harald Johnsen | baroque guitar
Sabrina Frey | recorder
Eva Borhi | violin
Christian Beuse | dulcian
Stefan Temmingh | recorder
Peter Barczi
| violin

Venezia 1625

Venice, 1625: the city of the doges is one of the principal artistic centres of Europe. At the Cappella San Marco, a profoundly original style of instrumental music is in the process of discarding all reference to the tradition of vocal polyphony. The era of Baroque stravaganze has begun! Now, in the hands of a supreme master of the recorder, this ultra-virtuosic art acquires a new lease of life.

harmonia mundi s.a.

RECORDING
April 2008, church St. Peter, Zürich, Switzerland
Artistic director, sound & editing: Christian Sager, www.sagersounds.ch

TEXTS
Denis Morrier & Maurice Steger

PHOTOS
Maurice Steger: Marco Borggreve / harmonia mundi 2009

Mr. Corelli in London (2010)
Sammartini (2007)
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