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Baldassare Galuppi
Baldassare Galuppi: Il Buranello
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (13) - Disc #1
1. Keyboard Sonata in F major [Illy No. 36]: Andantino, e con espressione
2. Keyboard Sonata in F major [Illy No. 36]: Allegro assai
3. Keyboard Sonata in F major [Illy No. 36]: Allegro
4. Keyboard Sonata in A major [Illy No. 37]: Larghetto
5. Keyboard Sonata in A major [Illy No. 37]: Allegro assai
6. Keyboard Sonata in C minor [Illy No. 38]: Allegro moderato
7. Keyboard Sonata in C minor [Illy No. 38]: Allegretto
8. Keyboard Sonata in D major [Illy No. 39]: Andante grazioso
9. Keyboard Sonata in D major [Illy No. 39]: Allegro moderato
10. Keyboard Sonata in B flat major [Illy No. 40]: Larghetto
11. Keyboard Sonata in B flat major [Illy No. 40]: Allegro
12. Keyboard Sonata in E major [Illy No. 41]: Allegro moderato
13. Keyboard Sonata in E major [Illy No. 41]: Variazioni - Larghetto

CD Details

All Artists: Baldassare Galuppi
Title: Baldassare Galuppi: Il Buranello
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Tactus
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 4/8/2008
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Styles: Forms & Genres, Sonatas, Historical Periods, Baroque (c.1600-1750)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 8007194104240

Synopsis

Album Description

In January 1782, an important Russian Granduke on a visit to Venice with his wife received in homage a collection of six sonatas for harpsichord. The personage in question was Paul Petrovich, the son of the czarina Catherine, who was destined to succeed his mother in 1796. The author of the sonatas was Baldassarre Galuppi, who had served the czarina in St. Petersburg until 1768. Galuppi had begun his career at the age of 20 as a virtuoso harpsichordist and composer for that instrument (the musical connoisseur Charles Burney called him "a good harpsichordist") and he wrote no fewer than 130 sonatas for the keyboard.

CD Reviews

Prepare for a surprise!

Harry W. Crosby | La Jolla, California United States | 06/14/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The harpsichord music of Baldessare Galuppi played by Annalisa Martella? Who are these people, you ask. Well, he was born in 1706, had a brilliant career, and was then forgotten --- and she is middle-aged and has no other listed recordings. Not too promising a prospect?

Well, forget that. This is without doubt the most charming, winning harpsichord disk that I own (and believe me, I own a few!). The music is delightful, melodic, light-hearted, graceful, and more. Tactus should be congratulated. This, their recording, is simply the best of a harpsichord that I have heard, and needless to say, in order that all that can be claimed and justified, Annalisa Martella had to, and did, play like an angel.

Listen to the sound bites here on Amazon. They are too brief, but even these, heard on my computer's puny sound system, were enough to tell me that something remarkable was at hand, available and reasonable. Give it a try.

Harry W. Crosby"