Mancini: Solos for a Flute Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players

• Francesco Mancini (1672 - 1737): Recorder Sonata No. 6 in B-Flat Major:
• 1Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 6 in B-Flat Major: I. Largo01:58
• 2Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 6 in B-Flat Major: II. Allegro02:25
• 3Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 6 in B-Flat Major: III. Largo02:08
• 4Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 6 in B-Flat Major: IV. Allegro01:40
• Recorder Sonata No. 4 in A Minor:
• 5Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 4 in A Minor: I. Spiritoso. Largo02:02
• 6Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 4 in A Minor: II. Interludio. Allegro02:38
• 7Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 4 in A Minor: III. Largo02:05
• 8Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 4 in A Minor: IV. Allegro spiccato01:52
• Recorder Sonata No. 10 in B Minor:
• 9Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 10 in B Minor: I. Largo01:53
• 10Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 10 in B Minor: II. Allegro02:21
• 11Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 10 in B Minor: III. Largo02:02
• 12Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 10 in B Minor: IV. Allegro01:46
• Recorder Sonata No. 12 in G Major:
• 13Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 12 in G Major: I. Allegro - Largo02:10
• 14Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 12 in G Major: II. Allegro02:59
• 15Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 12 in G Major: III. Andante01:53
• 16Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 12 in G Major: IV. Allegro01:26
• Recorder Sonata No. 11 in G Minor:
• 17Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 11 in G Minor: I. Un poco andante02:44
• 18Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 11 in G Minor: II. Allegro02:09
• 19Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 11 in G Minor: III. Largo02:23
• 20Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 11 in G Minor: IV. Allegro02:21
• Recorder Sonata No. 1 in D Minor:
• 21Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 1 in D Minor: I. Amoroso02:03
• 22Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 1 in D Minor: II. Allegro02:16
• 23Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 1 in D Minor: III. Largo02:05
• 24Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 1 in D Minor: IV. Allegro02:19
• Recorder Sonata No. 2 in E Minor:
• 25Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 2 in E Minor: I. Andante01:29
• 26Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 2 in E Minor: II. Allegro02:29
• 27Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 2 in E Minor: III. Largo01:46
• 28Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 2 in E Minor: IV. Allegro02:29
• Recorder Sonata No. 5 in D Major:
• 29Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 5 in D Major: I. Allegro - Largo02:01
• 30Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 5 in D Major: II. Allegro02:17
• 31Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 5 in D Major: III. Largo01:33
• 32Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 5 in D Major: IV. Allegro01:32
• Total Runtime01:07:14

Info for Mancini: Solos for a Flute

Born in 1672 in Naples where he trained as an organist and composer, Francesco Mancini became one of the most prominent composers of Neapolitan opera in the eighteenth century.

The Solos for a Flute, published in 1724, were a collection of Sonatas dedicated to John Fleetwood, the English consul to Naples and himself an amateur flautist. Hoping to gain himself a steady remunerative position in England, Mancini designed this flattering dedication to take advantage of the popularity of Italian music in London and the rise in prominence of wind music at the time. Fleetwood died the year after the Solos were published and Mancini never moved from his native Italy. The quality of these works was nevertheless recognised in England and the Solos for a Flute achieved great success. The Sonatas, as the individual Solos are called, follow the usual four or five-movement structure established by Corelli, wildly popular in England at the time. Clear Neapolitan influences are present, however, in elements such as the minor tonalities and almost operatic melodies employed in the slow movements.

This collection of substantial excerpts from the set is performed by the Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players, the Philadelphia-based early music ensemble, which has been recording exclusively for Chandos since 2004. Gwyn Roberts, co-director of the ensemble, playing a variety of period flutes and recorders, is the soloist.

“…this album immediately takes pride of place among the few releases devoted to Mancini’s recorder sonatas; enthusiastically recommended.” (James A Altena, Fanfare)

Gwyn Roberts, recorder, flauto traverso
Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players

Tempesta di Mare
is a self-led baroque orchestra and chamber ensemble with a mission to inspire and enlighten through concerts, recordings and broadcasts. The inspiration comes from approaching baroque music as a rhetorical craft; the enlightenment comes from an emphasis on rediscovered masterworks alongside established repertoire.

Baroque composers imbued their chamber and orchestral music with the powers of language, letting every listener experience as full a range of human emotion as from a play or poem. We craft our performances to bring baroque music’s most speech-like and emotive qualities front and center.

Whether as an orchestra or a chamber ensemble, our players transform the musical notes into dynamic, wordless dialogues in sound that win over audiences everywhere we play.

Led by directors Gwyn Roberts and Richard Stone, with concertmaster Emlyn Ngai, Tempesta defines itself by this rhetorical approach to baroque music through concerts, recordings and broadcasts.

Gwyn Roberts
Called “a world-class virtuoso” by American Record Guide, Gwyn Roberts is one of America’s foremost performers on recorder and baroque flute, praised by Gramophone for her “sparkling technique, compelling musicianship, and all-around excellence.”

Roberts’ soloist engagements include the Portland Baroque Orchestra, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Washington Bach Consort and the Kennedy Center.

In addition to Chandos, she has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Dorian, Sony Classics, Vox, PolyGram, PGM, and Radio France. Her latest solo recordings include the Fasch Recorder Concerto in F, Bach’s Concerto in G after BWV 530, and Sonatas by Francesco Mancini. She enjoys collaborating with living composers, recently recording James Primosch’s Sacred Songs and Meditations with the 21st Century Consort for Albany Records.

Roberts studied recorder and baroque flute at Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands with Marion Verbruggen, Leo Meilink and Marten Root. She loves teaching, with recent master classes at the Curtis Institute of Music, Hartt School of Music, and Oregon Bach Festival. She is Professor of Recorder and Baroque Flute at the Peabody Conservatory, Director of Early Music Ensembles at the University of Pennsylvania, and also directs the Virtuoso Recorder Program at the Amherst Early Music Festival.

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