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Croft, William: Complete Chamber Music

Ref: MB88 ISBN: 9780852498996 ISMN: 9790220221996 Categories: , By:

£101.00

Edited by H Diack Johnstone
First published in 2009
Pages: 144
Format: Hardback
Dimensions (mm): 330 x 254 x 18
Weight: 1.166kg

Hitherto unpublished, the four trio sonatas and two five-part sonatas by William Croft, which came to light in 1977, are among the most interesting and rewarding of English chamber works to have been written in the period between the trio sonatas of Purcell and those of Boyce and Arne. Possibly first heard at the concerts of the musical smallcoals man, Thomas Britton, they are complemented by six sonatas for two solo recorders, and three violin sonatas that are amongst the earliest printed works in this genre by an English composer.

Any individual work from this volume is available in printed or digital (PDF) format on request (archive@stainer.co.uk).

CONTENTS

Title Instrumentation
Sonata in E major
Allegro, Adagio, Allegro
Four Violins and Continuo
Sonata in F major
[Allegro], Adagio, Allegro
Two Recorders, Two Violins and Continuo
Sonata No. 1 in A major
Adagio, Allegro, [Adagio], Largo, [Vivace]
Violin and Continuo
Sonata No. 1 in C minor
Grave, Allegro, Adagio, Allegro
Two Recorders
Sonata [No. 1] in E minor
Grave, Allegro, Adagio, Vivace, Adagio, Allegro
Two Violins and Continuo
Sonata No. 2 in B minor
Adagio, Allegro, Grave, [Vivace]
Violin and Continuo
Sonata No. 2 in F major
Allegro, Adagio, Allegro
Two Recorders
Sonata [No. 2] in F major
Vivace, Adagio, Allegro, Adagio, Allegro
Two Violins and Continuo
Sonata [No. 3] in B flat major
Largo, Prestissimo, Adagio, Allegro, Vivace, Prestissimo
Two Violins and Continuo
Sonata No. 3 in G major
Adagio, Presto, Adagio, Allegro
Two Recorders
Sonata No. 3 in G minor
Adagio, Allegro–Adagio, [Vivace]
Violin and Continuo
Sonata No. 4 in B flat major
Adagio, Allegro, Adagio, Allegro
Two Recorders
Sonata [No. 4] in B minor
Largo, Vivace, Largo, Allegro
Two Violins and Continuo
Sonata No. 5 in D minor
Grave, Vivace, Allegro
Two Recorders
Sonata No. 6 in G minor
Grave, Vivace, Grave, Allegro
Two Recorders
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