Michele Mascitti

Sonate a Tre - Opera Prima

Matteo Cicchitti | Musica Elegentia

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917297928

Catalog number: CC 72979
Releasedate: 03-05-24

- Fourth release by Matteo Cicchitti and his Ensemble Elegentia on Challenge Classics
- World premiere recording of Triosonatas op.1 by Michele Mascitti. The work was published in Paris in 1704.
- In his time Mascitti was particularly esteemed and rightly considered a major testimonial of Italian instrumental music in France in the 18th century.
- In this oeuvre, which is for once a real discovery, Mascitti tries to combine the tradition of the Corellian sonata with the French 'gout' of the dedicatee, the Duke d'Orléans.

This new recording by Matteo Cicchitti and his ensemble Musica Elegentia is devoted to Michele Mascitti, a Baroque composer who, already in his time, was particularly esteemed and rightly considered a major testimonial of Italian instrumental music in France in the 18th century. In particular, this world premiere recording of his Triosonatas op. 1, published in Paris in 1704, spotlights the composer's attempt to recall the tradition of the Corellian sonata, while complying with the French 'gout' of the dedicatee, the Duke d'Orléans.