Program – The (traverso) sonata as a musical speech and dialogue

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Setting

Traverso sonatas (2 or 3 musicians)
Beniamino Paganini: traverso,
(cello) & harpsichord

Trio sonatas (3 or 4 musicians)
Beniamino Paganini: traverso
violin, (cello) & harpsichord

With this instrumentations, we also like to make other proposals. For example, with a focus on the repertoire of a particular composer or country, or a journey through baroque Europe.

Program

Example program traverso sonata

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759),
Sonata for traverso & basso continuo in G, HWV 363b
Adagio, Allegro, Adagio, Bourrée anglaise, Minuetto

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata for traverso & basso continuo in e, BWV 1034
Adagio ma non tanto, Allegro, Andante, Allegro

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Sonata III for traverso & basso continuo in e from ‘Sonate metodiche’ (1728), TWV 41:e2
Grave, Vivace, Cunando, Vivace

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Harpsichord suite in d, HWV 428
Prélude, Allemande, Presto

Georg Friedrich Händel
Sonata for traverso & basso continuo in e, HWV 375
Adagio, Allegro, Grave, Minuetto

Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral suite II in b,
 BWV 1067
Bourrées I&II, Polonaise, Menuet, Badinerie

Recordings