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Colpron senza basso

Thursday November 30, 2006, 8:00 pm

Sonatas and fantasias for solo recorder and traverso by Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

The principle of the basso continuo characterizes virtually all music of the Baroque period. In chamber music, apart from works for keyboard, even pieces called “solos” cannot do without this accompaniment! Nevertheless, some rare compositions were written for melody instrument with the specific notation senza basso. Alongside the well-known sonatas and suites for solo violin and cello by Bach, the recorder and the traverso had an invaluable solo repertoire in the real sense of the term: at once delicate, ingenious, and virtuosic, and in which the instrument reveals its secrets in a sort of interior dialogue, reveling in its solitude. (FF)