Imaginarium Ensemble – Passacaille

Into Nature. Vivaldi seasons

communication — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 05:30:54 +0000

02-Le chant des oyseaux 08-La primavera - I - Allegro 18-L'inverno - II - Largo

25 years after his recording with il Giardino Armonico Enrico Onofri proposes us a new version in which he shows an unequalled maturity and artistic wisdom. Instead of making Vivaldi the main hero of the recording he wants to pay tribute Mother Nature, her saving power and the art inspired by it-through its sounds, images, smells, tastes and sensations. The music that accompanies “the Seasons” in this album falls within the scope of the Italian instrumental seventeenth century and offers us a collection of musical gems that lead the way to Vivaldi’s masterwork.

Booklet: FR, EN, DE, IT

Lyrics: FR, EN, DE

Corelli. Violin Sonatas

communication — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 01:20:47 +0000

Artists: Enrico Onofri, Imaginarium Ensemble Composer: Arcangelo Corelli

Toccata & Fugue

communication — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:45:17 +0000

The works for solo violin recorded on this album do not belong to the normal repertory performed by modern or baroque violinists, with one exception: H.I.F. von Biber’s Passacaglia.One of these works is part of the great baroque organ repertory: J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D (RE) minorBWV565. We do not know if the celebrated version of Toccata and Fugue BWV565 for organ is the original draft or only a transcription. The hypothesis that this work was written for a bowed instrument and then transcribed for organ is based on the presence of unique (or rare) elements found in Bach’s keyboard writings. This is corrobo-rated by the fact that the fugue subject and other various episodes seem to have been thought of for a stringed instrument rather than a keyboard.

Also on this cd , some of the famous Fantasias for solo violin by Telemann, some sonatas by Tartini, played without the bass – in a letter Tartini tells us he often performed them in that way – and also the Gulliver suite for two vio-lins by Telemann: Each movement describes a situation from Swift’s story through expedient rhetoric both unusualand comic.

Booklet: EN, IT

Devil’s Trill

communication — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:05:42 +0000

Artists: Enrico Onofri, Imaginarium Ensemble Composers: Veracini, Tartini, Bonporti…

Corelli. Violin Sonatas op5 vol1

communication — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 23:25:02 +0000

Artists: Enrico Onofri, Imaginarium Ensemble Composer: Arcangelo Corelli