The Baroque spirit in all its musical shapes. Today, our programme focuses on the cornetto, the wooden wind instrument with a mouthpiece resembling that of a trumpet. In Dutch, the cornetto is also called “zink”. The music comes from two composers of the Italian early Baroque, and there is only one performer today.
Playlist
Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589 – 1630)
1 Sonata XVIII a tre, violino cornetto e trombone
2 Sonata XIII a tre, due cornetti e trombone
3 Sonata VI per canto solo, cornetto
4 Sonata XI a due cornetti
Le Concert Brisé conducted by William Dongois, cornetto
(CD: Giovanni Battista Fontana / Giovanni Gabrieli – Sonate & Canzone. Accent ACC 24250, 2014)
Antonio Bertali (1605 – 1669)
5 Sonata XII a quattro (violin, cornett, sackbut, dulcian)
6 Sonata II a quattro (violin, cornett, sackbut, dulcian)
7 Sonata a due violini fagotto (violin, cornett, sackbut)
8 Sonata in d a quattro (violin, cornett, sackbut, dulcian)
(Addition:)
9 Sonata I (cornett, organ)
Le Concert Brisé conducted by William Dongois, cornetto
(CD: Antonio Bertali – Sonatas. Accent ACC 24260, 2013)
Image in title: three cornetti (source: Wikimedia Commons)
