About the piece:

Appears in “Sonate concertate in stil moderno per sonar nel Organo overo Clavicembalo con diversi Instrumenti. A 1., 2., 3. & 4. Voci. Libro secondo, Venice, 1629”

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Written by Susan McClary in her book: Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music

 

 

Music:

Facsimilie: click here (p. 4)

Modern Edition: Click here.

 

Recordings:

Baroque violinist Aaron Brown, leader of the early music ensemble Guido’s Ear, performs Sonata Prima by Dario Castello. With Loretta O’Sullivan, Cello, and Charles Weaver, Theorbo:

Natalie Carducci, violin with Paul Psarras, baroque guitar & Adam Cockerham, archlute:

Giovanni Antonini – recorder with Ottavio Dantone – cembalo:

Recording on a serpent – what a fabulous sound:

Lilla Varhelyi, Violine with Astrid Erdmann-Holder, Viola da Gamba and Peter Peil, Arciliuto:

La Venexiana- Efix Puleo, violino, Michele Palomba, tiorba, Chiara Granata, arpa
Claudio Cavina, cembalo e direzione:

Tami Morse and husband Marc Levine – Flying Forms – perform Castello’s Sonata Prima:

António Carrilho – recorder & Rafael Bonavita – archlute:

Andrew Manze, violin – Romanesca ensemble: