Giordani: Three Quintets for Keyboard and Strings
Series: Classical Era Publisher: A-R Editions
Three Quintets for Keyboard and Strings
Edited by Nicholas Temperley
C025 Giordani: Three Quintets for Keyboard and Strings
978-0-89579-214-3
Full Score (1987)
9x12, xv + 128 pp.
$54.00
In stock
SKU
C025
Performance Parts
C025P
Instrumental Part(s) (1987)
Set of 4 parts (vn. 1; vn. 2; va.; vc.)
Giordani's Opus 1 quintets, published in London in 1771, are believed to have been the first pieces of their kind. They catered to a lively interest in new instrumental combinations displayed by royal and aristocratic amateurs in England at this time. In addition to their historical value, they extend the repertory of quintets for keyboard and strings backward by approximately fifty years. These fine examples of the galant style are equally suited to harpsichord or pianoforte.
Quintet No. 1 in E-flat Major
I. Allegro maestoso
II. Largo
III. Minuetto: Allegro
Quintet No. 3 in A Major
I. Allegro moderato
II. Larghetto
III. Rondo: Allegro
Quintet No. 5 in C Major
I. Allegro moderato
II. Un poco andante
III. Presto
Simon McVeigh, Music & Letters, February 1989