Giovanni Benedetto PLATTI: Sonata for oboe & harpsichord in C minor Giuseppe NALIN: baroque oboe, Nicola BENETTI: harpsichord. Recorded in the Villa Pacchierotti Zemella (Padova Italy). FIRST WORLD RECORDING
After studying and finally making this beautiful and complicated sonata in C minor for oboe Giovanni Benedetto Platti, i am increasingly convinced that he was an eclectic genius, Born in 1697 9 July near Padua (my city), Giovanni Benedetto Platti left Italy in 1722 together with a group of musicians led by Fortunato Chelleri and arrived in Wurzburg, where he took up service at the court of the prince - bishop of Bamberg and Wurzuburg , Johann Philipp Franz von Schonborn. In Wurzburg, on February 14, 1723, he married Maria Theresia Lambrucker, soprano at the same court, with whom he had 8 children. With regard to Platti's work at the court, we can know how he was a kind of factotum: preparer of singers and tenor himself, as well as master of various instruments such as, in addition to the oboe of which he was a virtuoso and first oboist of the chapel, also of the violin, cello and harpsichord. Refined composer, he wrote vocal and instrumental music for all the instruments I have mentioned. We have evidence of Platti's professional seriousness in the only letter found written in his own hand, dated 4 December 1729 and addressed to Rudolf Franz Erwin, lord of Wiesentheid, who had requested two oboe players, but familiar with other instruments: "... I have found two pleasant subjects ... which I hope in two years I will make them capable by my education to be able to serve His Eminence, to this end I will give them a read every day, and I will not suffer that they apply à verun other thing than just Music, which is their practice all day long, as is also practiced in Italy with those who want to make singular profit in music " In summary, we know how Platti understood it on the study of music: I study constantly every day and all day long, without devoting himself to anything else, the usual method, he tells us, in Italy, something from other times! And the making of this sonata undoubtedly confirms it because it is one of the most demanding for the Baroque oboe known together with that of Vivaldi RV 53 that I have already made in this video: https://www.facebook.com/bepinalin/videos/3259317247434892
Giovanni Benedetto PLATTI: Sonata for oboe & harpsichord in C minor
RispondiEliminaGiuseppe NALIN: baroque oboe,
Nicola BENETTI: harpsichord.
Recorded in the Villa Pacchierotti Zemella (Padova Italy).
FIRST WORLD RECORDING
After studying and finally making this beautiful and complicated sonata in C minor for oboe Giovanni Benedetto Platti, i am increasingly convinced that he was an eclectic genius,
Born in 1697 9 July near Padua (my city), Giovanni Benedetto Platti left Italy in 1722 together with a group of musicians led by Fortunato Chelleri and arrived in Wurzburg, where he took up service at the court of the prince - bishop of Bamberg and Wurzuburg , Johann Philipp Franz von Schonborn.
In Wurzburg, on February 14, 1723, he married Maria Theresia Lambrucker, soprano at the same court, with whom he had 8 children.
With regard to Platti's work at the court, we can know how he was a kind of factotum: preparer of singers and tenor himself, as well as master of various instruments such as, in addition to the oboe of which he was a virtuoso and first oboist of the chapel, also of the violin, cello and harpsichord.
Refined composer, he wrote vocal and instrumental music for all the instruments I have mentioned. We have evidence of Platti's professional seriousness in the only letter found written in his own hand, dated 4 December 1729 and addressed to Rudolf Franz Erwin, lord of Wiesentheid, who had requested two oboe players, but familiar with other instruments:
"... I have found two pleasant subjects ... which I hope in two years I will make them capable by my education to be able to serve His Eminence, to this end I will give them a read every day, and I will not suffer that they apply à verun other thing than just Music, which is their practice all day long, as is also practiced in Italy with those who want to make singular profit in music "
In summary, we know how Platti understood it on the study of music: I study constantly every day and all day long, without devoting himself to anything else, the usual method, he tells us, in Italy, something from other times!
And the making of this sonata undoubtedly confirms it because it is one of the most demanding for the Baroque oboe known together with that of Vivaldi RV 53 that I have already made in this video:
https://www.facebook.com/bepinalin/videos/3259317247434892