Platti Archive
PLATTI: Six Trio Sonatas for Violin, Violoncello and Continuo – Armonioso – MD&G
PLATTI: Six Trio Sonatas for Violin, Violoncello and Continuo – Armonioso – multichannel SACD (and 2+2+2) MD&G 903 1978-6, 64:40 (12/2/16) ****: (Francesco Cerrato; violin/ Stefano Cerrato; violoncello/ Marco Demaria; cello/ Michele Barchi; harpsichord/ Daniele Ferretti; organ) Late Baroque trio sonatas from the music library of the Counts of Schonbrun-Wiesenheit. By the 1730s, the language of the Italian Baroque was spoken throughout Europe. The superabundance of learned Italian-trained musicians and composers had spread out in search of patronage in courts of German-speaking lands. The most enterprising, such as Handel and Geminiani, set up shop in London, where the prosperous middle-class was learning to sit quietly through concerts. Scarlatti was on his way to Spain with the Infanta and soon to publish his hybrid Hispano-Italian masterpieces known as the essercizi. Increasingly, Power sought to dress itself in refinement, elegance, and lavish adornments. Even a relatively small court such as that in Wurzburg, owned by the family of Schonborn counts, required a resident composer/musician to certify its cultural status. The one who created the works under review here, Giovanni Benedetto Platti, turned up to occupy this position in 1722 and spent the rest of his life as a successful and well-paid employee […]
PLATTI: Sonatas for Harpsichord (18) – Filippo Emanuele Ravizza – Concerto (4 CDs)
GIOVANNI BENEDETTO PLATTI: Sonatas for Harpsichord (18) – Filippo Emanuele Ravizza, harpsichord – Concerto Classics Vol. 1 thru 4 – Concerto Classics CD Box 2011 (Vol. 1=1 hr 11:04, Vol. 2=1 hr 15:33, Vol. 3=1 hr 5:51, Vol. 4=1 hr :39) [Distr. by Naxos] ****1/2: Platti was an important part of the 18th century musical world in Europe. He was attached to the court in Würzburg, Germany—working there as a composer, tenor, violinist, harpsichordist, cellist and teacher—and lived until 1763. Some musicologists credit him with being the first composer to use the classical sonata form. Even if he wasn’t, Platti did have a vital role in the transition from the Baroque to the Pre-Classic period. He used daring constructions which often showed the influence of German composers as well as Pergolesi and Marcello. His keyboard works may have been a major reference point for the early keyboard works of both Haydn and Mozart. I had been expecting a tuneful but unfamiliar Italian composer’s work, with many of these four volumes of harpsichord sonatas sounding very similar, but instead was astonished by the originality, rhythmic interest and general liveliness of all of these sonatas. They have a similar sprightliness to Domenico […]
Sinfonias & Concerti of GIUSEPPE ANTONIO BRESCIANELLO – Glossa Late Keyboard Sonatas of GIOVANNI BENEDETTO PLATTI – Accent
Two eighteenth-century Italian composers who sought employment in Germany, one a master of prevailing styles, one a fascinating transitional figure.
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