Robert Valentine: Un inglese a Roma Ensemble Barocco di Napoli & Tommaso Rossi

• Robert Valentine (1671 - 1747): Flute Sonata in A Major, Op. 12 No. 1:
• 1Valentine: Flute Sonata in A Major, Op. 12 No. 1: I. Adagio01:58
• 2Valentine: Flute Sonata in A Major, Op. 12 No. 1: II. Allegro01:25
• 3Valentine: Flute Sonata in A Major, Op. 12 No. 1: III. Andante02:51
• 4Valentine: Flute Sonata in A Major, Op. 12 No. 1: IV. Allegro01:01
• Flute Sonata in D Minor, Op. 12 No. 2:
• 5Valentine: Flute Sonata in D Minor, Op. 12 No. 2: I. Adagio02:10
• 6Valentine: Flute Sonata in D Minor, Op. 12 No. 2: II. Allegro01:21
• 7Valentine: Flute Sonata in D Minor, Op. 12 No. 2: III. Adagio, amorosa01:53
• 8Valentine: Flute Sonata in D Minor, Op. 12 No. 2: IV. Allegro01:35
• Flute Sonata in G Major, Op. 12 No. 3:
• 9Valentine: Flute Sonata in G Major, Op. 12 No. 3: I. Adagio02:46
• 10Valentine: Flute Sonata in G Major, Op. 12 No. 3: II. Allegro01:44
• 11Valentine: Flute Sonata in G Major, Op. 12 No. 3: III. Andante02:43
• 12Valentine: Flute Sonata in G Major, Op. 12 No. 3: IV. Allegro01:56
• Flute Sonata in G Minor, Op. 12 No. 4:
• 13Valentine: Flute Sonata in G Minor, Op. 12 No. 4: I. Adagio02:49
• 14Valentine: Flute Sonata in G Minor, Op. 12 No. 4: II. Allegro01:29
• 15Valentine: Flute Sonata in G Minor, Op. 12 No. 4: III. Andante01:55
• 16Valentine: Flute Sonata in G Minor, Op. 12 No. 4: IV. Allegro01:44
• Flute Sonata in E Minor, Op. 12 No. 5:
• 17Valentine: Flute Sonata in E Minor, Op. 12 No. 5: I. Adagio03:01
• 18Valentine: Flute Sonata in E Minor, Op. 12 No. 5: II. Allegro01:40
• 19Valentine: Flute Sonata in E Minor, Op. 12 No. 5: III. Largo03:49
• 20Valentine: Flute Sonata in E Minor, Op. 12 No. 5: IV. Allegro01:33
• Flute Sonata in D Major, Op. 12 No. 6:
• 21Valentine: Flute Sonata in D Major, Op. 12 No. 6: I. Adagio02:39
• 22Valentine: Flute Sonata in D Major, Op. 12 No. 6: II. Allegro01:52
• 23Valentine: Flute Sonata in D Major, Op. 12 No. 6: III. Adagio02:23
• 24Valentine: Flute Sonata in D Major, Op. 12 No. 6: IV. Vivace01:39
• 25Valentine: Flute Sonata in D Major, Op. 12 No. 6: V. Andante01:23
• 26Valentine: Flute Sonata in D Major, Op. 12 No. 6: VI. Allegro01:13
• Recorder Sonata in G Minor, Op. 3 No. 11:
• 27Valentine: Recorder Sonata in G Minor, Op. 3 No. 11: I. Adagio01:26
• 28Valentine: Recorder Sonata in G Minor, Op. 3 No. 11: II. Corrente. Allegro01:29
• 29Valentine: Recorder Sonata in G Minor, Op. 3 No. 11: III. Adagio01:24
• 30Valentine: Recorder Sonata in G Minor, Op. 3 No. 11: IV. Giga. Allegro01:20
• Recorder Sonata in F Major, Op. 3 No. 12:
• 31Valentine: Recorder Sonata in F Major, Op. 3 No. 12: I. Adagio02:13
• 32Valentine: Recorder Sonata in F Major, Op. 3 No. 12: II. Allegro01:02
• 33Valentine: Recorder Sonata in F Major, Op. 3 No. 12: III. Adagio01:41
• 34Valentine: Recorder Sonata in F Major, Op. 3 No. 12: IV. Giga. Allegro01:33
• Total Runtime01:04:40

Info for Robert Valentine: Un inglese a Roma

The violinist, cellist, flutist and oboist Robert Valentine (Leicester, 1671 - Rome, 1747) was a prolific author of sonatas - especially for recorder - and an instrumentalist engaged in the musical life of Rome, the city where he moved, in a period between 1693 and 1700, from his native England.1 Valentine belonged to a group – not very large but quite important for their excellent performative qualities – of virtuosos of wind instruments (oboe and also flute) who in the first half of the eighteenth century moved to Italy, also to make up for some shortage of instrumentalists in this sector, even if recent researches show, especially in Naples, a great vivacity of local schools even for what concerns wind musicians. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, between Rome, Naples and Florence, we discover the presence of at least four foreign instrumentalists: the oboists / flutists Ignatio Rion (active in Venice, Rome and finally in Naples), Ignazio Sieber (Venice), Ludwig Erdmann (Florence) and finally Robert Valentine. The work of this English-born musician greatly fostered the development of flute music in Italy. His work as a composer and performer places him among the most prolific authors of original music for recorder of the period.

Tommaso Rossi, flute
Barocco Di Napoli

The Ensemble Barocco di Napoli
was founded on the iniative of Tommaso Rossi, Raffaele Di Donna and Marco Vitali and debuted to great acclaim on 2 May 2010 on the occasion of a concert organised by Associazione “Alessandro Scarlatti” to celebrate the 350th anniversary of birth of Alessandro Scarlatti.

The group is made up of musicians who have been active for years in the most important Italian Early music entitles. In 2012 the group published its first CD dedicated to the flute Cantatas and Sonatas by Alessandro Scarlatti for Stradivarius label with soprano Valentina Varriale. In 2014 the same label published a second CD, dedicated to Leonardo Leo’s flute Sonatas.

The Ensemble was invited by important festivals like Savona Opera Giocosa , Cusiano Early Music Festival, Leonardo Leo Baroque Festival. In January the Ensemble played with soprano Maria Grazia Schiavo in the music season of Associazione “Alessandro Scarlatti”. The Ensemble organizes in Pertosa the Early Music Course “Musiche da ricordare” in collaboration with Fondazione MIdA.

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