The solo sonatas of G. P. Cima were always close to my heart and my ears, since the frst time I had played them, over 15 years ago.
For years I have always picked these two sonatas as the first seicento sonatas to teach my students who wished to dive into the seicento repertoire, alongside the little
more convetional 5 Frescobaldi para que sirve la viagra femenina Canzonas.
One can learn a little about Cima’s life in this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Paolo_Cima
In their book “Italian violin music of the 17th century”, Thomas Binkley and Willi Apel write that he had worked in Milano since 1610, but had published his first collection of pieces in 1599.
The 2 sonatas were published in 1610.
You are invited to listen to the first sonata in an unfortunately unidentified recording:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg29-yZgIiA
I warmly recommend all of you to seek out and play these sonatas. Both are gems that sound brilliant on the recorder.
