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Dario Castello: Sonate Concertate in Stil Moderno
Dario Castello, Musica Fiorita
Dario Castello: Sonate Concertate in Stil Moderno
Genre: Classical
 
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Dario Costello flourished in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Despite the excellence and importance of his music, almost nothing is known about him personally. Even in his choice of titles ? Sonate conce...  more »

     
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All Artists: Dario Castello, Musica Fiorita
Title: Dario Castello: Sonate Concertate in Stil Moderno
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Tactus Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 5/9/2006
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 8007194103601

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Dario Costello flourished in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Despite the excellence and importance of his music, almost nothing is known about him personally. Even in his choice of titles ? Sonate concertate in stil moderno ? Castello demonstrates his confidence in presenting compositions written in an advanced concertato style. In his second book, Castello demonstrates his ability to combine virtuosic writing for instruments with a variety of contrasts in sonority and compositional style. The formal ideas often point to a latent sonata form as well as to a formal balance conceived in genuinely musical ways. The importance of this collection and its dissemination among contemporaries, as witnessed by the reprints in Venice and Amsterdam in 1658, stand in almost inexplicable contrast to the scarcity of biographical information concerning its composer.
 

CD Reviews

Introduce yourself to the mysterious Mr. Castello
John Willoughby | Amherst, MA | 05/02/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Probably like most people I hadn't heard of Dario Castello until I chanced upon this CD.



So much for modern style sonate Concertantes, these are very pleasing sonatas orchestrated for a variety of instruments, and which are easy on the ear but not overly simple. I particularly like the brass passages with the echoed responses in the latter half of the disc. The mix of instruments gives the music a distinct sound which belies its' period."