CDA66831/2 - Disc 2 Track 6 - Sonata in D minor, Op 4 No 1

Sonata in D minor, Op 4 No 1

composer

Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1671-1751)

1708; from 6 Sonate da chiesa, 'Op 4'

Recordings

Albinoni: Sonate & Trattenimenti

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Details

Movement 1: Adagio

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Movement 2: Allegro

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Movement 3: Largo

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Movement 4: Allegro

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Sonata in D minor, Op 4 No 1

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Sonata 1 contains some quintessentially Albinonian musical ideas that were to appear in later works. Versions of the first, second and fourth movements appear in the opening sonata of a second ‘unofficial’ set of violin sonatas published in 1717, while the second movement prefigures its counterpart in Op 6 No 4. This sonata is typical of Albinoni in that the slow movements are in a through-composed form that eschews any kind of reprise of the opening, while the quick movements employ an almost perfectly symmetrical binary form.