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Sonata en La Mayor

Sonatas para viola de la Real Capilla

Viola y bajo continuo

BALADO, Juan

Reg.: B.3862

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  • Arrangement: MILLÁN, Tony
  • Review: PILLAI, Ashan; MILLÁN, Tony
  • Ensemble: Duos: With piano; ; Mixt.
    Trios: With piano; Mixt.
  • Genres: Classical / contemporary: Arrangements and Transcripts; Chamber.
  • Language of the comment: Spanish, English
  • Product format: Partitura + particellas
  • Difficulty level: Advanced-superior
  • Period: Classical
  • Publishing house: Editorial Boileau
  • Collection: Sonatas para viola de la Real Capilla
  • No. of pages: 20+16
  • Measure: 31,00 x 23,00 cm
  • ISMN: 979-0-3503-3709-3
  • Available in digital: No
  • Available for rent: No

In May 2010 musicologist,  Judith Ortega  defended her doctoral thesis, “ Music in the Royal Court of Carlos III and Carlos IV : the Royal Chapel and Royal Camara”, in which she included an exhaustive investigation concerning the compositional context of the Sonatas a Solo from the Royal Chapel. One year later,in 2011, Judith Ortega and Joseba Berrocal edited a critical edition of the 36 Sonatas a Sola from the Royal Chapel, published by ICCMU in their collection, Música Hispanica, almost two hundred years after their initial entries in the library of the Palace.

Thanks to Ortega and Berrocal,  and the passing subsequent five years, the violist Ashan Pillai  and historical keyboard specialist, Tony Millán bring to light a definitive edition of these works for interpreters; designed for those who play  period and modern instruments. The clear objective is to bring these works into the concert halls and conservatoires.

This revision of the Sonatas was done simultaneously with the recording of all eleven Sonatas by Ashan Pillai and pianist, Juan Carlos Cornelles; a double CD released by the Nîbius label in coproduction with Solé Recordings in 2016. Tony Millán has written a thorough-bass realization for this edition.

Balado's sonata is presumably the last of the eleven sonatas written for viola (c. 1818) although the exact date is not documented . His sonata is in A major and in two movements; «Adagio Sostenuto» and «Rondo Allegretto».
 
At first sight, this work could be dismissed as trivial and superficial, but as with those works of Boccherini, the writing for the instrument is undeniably virtuosic and charming.

Adagio sostenuto
Rondó. Allegretto

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