A few weeks ago, I cam a across a fairly interesting piece of old manuscript called ‘Sinfonie di Varij Autori’ out of the Biblioteca Palatina di Parma. In it, more than 20 sonata specifically composed or arranged for the recorder, a good testimony of the recorder scene in Italy in the first half the 18th century.
This music kind of grew on me, seeing a kind of sweet, yet live-full honesty within the fairly surprising figures this music offers sometime. I had the chance to perform one its sonatas recently, the F-Major sonata by Giacomo Ferronati in Tel Aviv and I’m happy to share its recording with you today.
I’ll probably be performing some more of this for my recital upcoming June, but it certainly gave me ideas for the future… So hopefully, more to come… Until then, you can listen the witty-full sonata by Giacomo (or possibly Ludovico) Ferronati here.
