La Real Cámara - De Castro: Trio Sonatas, Op. 1
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 57:06 min | 281 MB
Label: Glossa | Tracks: 38 | Rls.date: 2016
A seventeenth century violinist-composer in Francisco José de Castro, who travelled from his birthplace of Seville to the Northern Italian city of Brescia where he composed chamber music, provides the focus for Emilio Moreno’s latest exploration of the forgotten and ignored in Iberian Baroque. Castro’s Trattenimenti armonici, Op 1, a set of ten trio sonatas da camera were published in 1695, by which time their composer had earned a deserved reputation for his musicality, especially as a follower of the innovative style of Arcangelo Corelli (Castro’s first opus was issued by a leading publisher in Bologna). These trio sonatas are the only known Spanish examples from the seventeenth century.