Clementi: Complete Sonatas Vol.II
Composer
Muzio Clementi
Artist
Constantino Mastroprimiano fortepiano
Format
3 CD
Cat. number
93685
EAN code
5028421936857
Release
April 2006
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About this release
This is a sequel to the 3 CD album with the Viennese sonatas by Clementi released last year. Fortepianist Costantino Mastroprimiano now continues with the composer’s earliest sonatas. They range from really early ones - Clementi may have been only 11 when he wrote the first piece - to mature and technically demanding pieces.
At twelve and already an organist at the churches of Rome Italian Muzio Clementi was taken to England by a ‘patron’. This Peter Beckford was the dedicatee of Clementi’s first set of published works. They are sonatas and musically uncomplicated.
This issue also comprises Clementi’s Opera I and II, sets of sonatas composed after his extremely busy period with Beckford, studying and performing as a virtuoso pianist. Especially the three works for solo piano from Opera 'II are' of exceptional virtuosity for that time (1779) and reflect Clementi’s own dexterity.
Once again fortepianist Costantino Mastroprimiano takes the listener on an interesting journey through mostly unknown territory.
Listening
Track list
Disk 1
1 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in A flat major WO 13 (1765): All[egr]o ma non troppo
2 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in A flat major WO 13 (1765): Larghetto
3 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in A flat major WO 13 (1765): All[egr]o assai
4 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in E flat major Op. 1 No. 1: All.° con Comodo
5 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in E flat major Op. 1 No. 1: Tempo di Minuetto
6 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in G major Op. 1 No. 2: Spiritoso
7 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in G major Op. 1 No. 2: All.° assai
8 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in B flat major Op. 1 No. 3: Maestoso
9 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in B flat major Op. 1 No. 3: Andantino Grazioso
10 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in F major Op. 1 No. 4: Spiritoso
11 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in F major Op. 1 No. 4: Larghetto
12 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in F major Op. 1 No. 4: Rondeaux
13 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in A major Op. 1 No. 5: Larghetto
14 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in A major Op. 1 No. 5: Tempo di Men[uetto]. Grazioso
15 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in E major Op. 1 No. 6: Moderato
16 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in E major Op. 1 No. 6: Rondeau. Grazioso
Disk 2
1 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in F major oeuvre 1.er No. 1: Andante
2 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in F major oeuvre 1.er No. 1: Allegro. La Pantoufle avec des Variations
3 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in B flat major oeuvre 1.er No. 2: Allegro Moderato
4 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in B flat major oeuvre 1.er No. 2: Andantino Grazioso
5 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in B flat major oeuvre 1.er No. 2: Allegro. Air du Balet de Mirza avec des Variations
6 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in G major oeuvre 1.er No. 3: Allegretto
7 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in G major oeuvre 1.er No. 3: Black Joke. Air Anglaise avec des Variations
8 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in A major oeuvre 1.er No. 4: Larghetto
9 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in A major oeuvre 1.er No. 4: Tempo di Minuetto
10 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in A minor oeuvre 1.er No. 5: Allegro
11 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in G major WO 14 (1768): All[egr]o
12 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in G major WO 14 (1768): All[egr]o assai
13 Muzio Clementi: Giga in B minor (Corelli): Allegro
14 Muzio Clementi: Sarabanda in D minor (Corelli): Allegro
15 Muzio Clementi: Allemande in D minor ( Corelli): Allegro
16 Muzio Clementi: Sarabanda in F major (Corelli): Vivace
17 Muzio Clementi: Giga in F major (Corelli): Allegro
18 Muzio Clementi: (Allegro) in C major (Corelli): (Allegro)
Disk 3
1 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in C major op. 2 No. 2: Presto
2 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in C major op. 2 No. 2: Rondeau. Spiritoso
3 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in A major op. 2 No. 4: Allegro assai
4 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in A major op. 2 No. 4: Spiritoso
5 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in B flat major op 2 No. 6: Allegro di molto
6 Muzio Clementi: Sonata in B flat major op 2 No. 6: Prestissimo
7 Muzio Clementi: The Black Joke with 21 Variations WO 2 (Ed. Welcker, London): (Thema) Allegro.Var. 1 – 6
8 Muzio Clementi: The Black Joke with 21 Variations WO 2 (Ed. Welcker, London): Var. 7 - 13
9 Muzio Clementi: The Black Joke with 21 Variations WO 2 (Ed. Welcker, London): Var. 14 - 17
10 Muzio Clementi: The Black Joke with 21 Variations WO 2 (Ed. Welcker, London): Var. 19 - 21