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Track(s) taken from CDA66255

Sinfonia from the opera Il Diocletiano

composer

Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)
Recording details: March 1987
All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London, United Kingdom
Release date: October 1988
Total duration: 3 minutes 13 seconds
 

Reviews

‘A cornucopia of riches’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘Beautiful, newly-presented music. The achievement is quite breathtaking’ (Hi-Fi News)
The short but eloquent sinfonia by Carlo Pallavacino reminds us that many early concerted instrumental works were originally introductions to vocal music; the sources that preserve them detached from their parent works represent the first stage of a process that was to establish the concerto and the symphony as genres in their own right. Il Diocletiano was the first of Pallavacino’s many Venetian operas, written shortly after a period spent working at the Dresden court as Heinrich Schütz’s assistant.

from notes by Peter Holman © 1988

La brève mais éloquente sinfonia de Carlo Pallavacino nous rappelle qu’à l’origine, maintes œuvres instrumentales concertées introduisaient de la musique vocale; les sources qui les conservent seules, séparées de leurs œuvres mères, constituent la première étape d’un processus qui allait asseoir le concerto et la symphonie comme des genres à part entière. Pallavacino écrivit Il Diocletiano, le premier de ses nombreux opéras vénitiens, peu après avoir été l’assistant de Heinrich Schütz à la cour de Dresde.

extrait des notes rédigées par Peter Holman © 1988
Français: Hypérion

Die kurze, aber ausdrucksvolle Sinfonia von Carlo Pallavacino erinnert daran, dass viele frühe instrumentale Ensemblestücke ursprünglich als Einleitungen zu Vokalmusik gedacht waren; die Quellen, in denen sie getrennt von ihren Mutterwerken erhalten sind, stellen die erste Stufe in einem Prozess dar, der das Instrumentalkonzert und die Sinfonie als eigenständige Gattungen etablieren sollte. Il Diocletiano war die erste von Pallavacinos zahlreichen venezianischen Opern und entstand kurz nach einem Aufenthalt am Dresdner Hof, wo er als Assistent von Heinrich Schütz wirkte.

aus dem Begleittext von Peter Holman © 1988
Deutsch: Anne Steeb/Bernd Müller

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