Sonates en trio op.1

Description

Francisco José de Castro, a Sevillian musician of the 17th century, left his hometown for Brescia, in northern Italy, where he perfected his studies and composed chamber music. The work of this violinist composer allows Emilio Moreno to explore a new aspect of the unknown world that is Spanish baroque. The publication in 1695 of the ten trio sonatas forming the "Trattenimenti armonici, opus 1" by one of the great publishers of Bologna confirms Castro's reputation as a continuer of the innovative style of Arcangelo Corelli. These works are, to our knowledge, the only sonatas composed by a Spanish musician of the 17th century. The sonatas, which have the characteristic form of the dance suite - some, alla francese - preceded by a prelude, reflect the young Sevillian's fascination with the stylus phantasticus and the new virtuosity of the Italian violin. These innovations that Castro was able to experience in Spain, thanks to contact with Italian violinists, revealed themselves in all their splendor in Brescia. In these interpretations, La Real Camara - as always with Glossa - is conducted by two virtuoso masters in the field, Emilio Moreno and Enrico Gatti, splendidly supported by Mercedes Ruiz and the brothers Pablo and Aarón Zapico. For Moreno, Castro is "the Spanish Corelli," a title attested by his elegant and imaginative music, imbued with a harmonic and melodic genius always influenced, and rhythmically! by his "Spanish muse."