Giovanni Battista Bassani: Balletti, Correnti, Gighe e Sarabande, Opera prima [Import]

Giovanni Battista Bassani (Composer), Ensemble Armonico Cimento (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Ensemble Armonico Cimento
• Composer: Giovanni Battista Bassani
• Audio CD (September 13, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Tactus Records
• ASIN: B000AMPZU8
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #508,586 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Each of these unique sonatas consists of four movements in the same sequence: balletto, corrente, giga and sarabanda – four favorite dance forms of the Baroque. The composer Bassani (ca. 1647-1716) worked back and forth in the musical establishments of Ferrara and Bologna. His Op. 1 "sonatas" are really instrumental suites. His decision to end each one with a sarabanda was not followed by subsequent performers, almost all of whom preferred the giga as a conclusion. Ensemble Armonico Cimento is one of Italy’s numerous successful Early Music groups, with members drawn from the famous Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, the Royal College of Music in London, and the École de Musique Ancienne in Geneva, Switzerland.