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Reviewer: David Vickers
Fasiolis leads
further Steffani explorations from Bartoli, I Barocchisti and others
I
Barocchisti achieve subtler refinement in dances and overtures selected from
13 Steffani operas, most of them written for Munich (1681-88) or Hanover
(1689-95). The Frenchstyle influence from Lully (eg a lovely chaconne from
Henrico Leone) proliferates through these masterly compositions,
arranged into a pleasingly contoured long suite: five-part strings play with
attractive shading in the Sinfonia from Marco Aurelio and a brief
Tendre from La superbia d’Alessandro is played beautifully. Tacky
castanets in a Passepied from La libertà contenta are an unwelcome
intrusion but four trumpets and war-like drums create a splendid din in the
clever Ouverture from Niobe.
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