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6 works · 51:54

1 Canzona No. 1 in C major Girolamo Frescobaldi 2:55
Sonata No. 2 in D majorPeter Hellendaal 4 movements11:21
1. 2 Adagio 3:23
2. 3 Allegro 2:29
3. 4 Affetuoso 2:06
4. 5 Rondo 3:23
Les Goûts-Réunis ou Nouveaux Concerts: Seventh ConcertFrançois Couperin 5 movements10:08
1. 6 Prelude 1:21
2. 7 Allemande 2:12
3. 8 Sarabande 2:12
4. 9 Gavote 1:50
5. 10 Siciléne 2:33
Trio Sonata in D majorJean-Marie Leclair 4 movements9:40
1. 11 Adagio 2:49
2. 12 Allegro 2:27
3. 13 Sarabanda 2:04
4. 14 Allegro assai 2:20
Pièces de Clavecin en concerts: First ConcertJean-Philippe Rameau 3 movements7:59
1. 15 La Coulicam 2:34
2. 16 La Livri 2:48
3. 17 Le Vézinet 2:37
Sonata No. 4 in F major, Op. 5Arcangelo Corelli 5 movements9:51
1. 18 Largo 1:31
2. 19 Allegro i 2:26
3. 20 Vivace 1:47
4. 21 Adagio 2:15
5. 22 Allegro ii 1:52

The Trio toured China in 1987, teaching and performing at the Conservatoriums in Beijing, Tianjin, Xian and Hong Kong.

Recorded at St Christopher Church, Camberwell, on 12 July 1986, the programme gathers Italian, French and Dutch Baroque chamber works for violin, cello and harpsichord.

Artists

Trio Polyphonica

ensemble

Trio Polyphonica was active between 1980 and 1990 and performed a wide repertoire of music spanning more than 300 years. The Trio toured China in 1987, teaching and performing at the Conservatoriums in Beijing, Tianjin, Xian and Hong Kong.

Roger Heagney

harpsichord

Roger Heagney has gained an international reputation as a pianist, harpsichordist, conductor and composer, giving recitals in Germany, France, England, Brunei and China, and appearing at festivals and on radio and television in Australia.

Jacqueline Johnson

cello

Jacqueline Johnson is a much sought-after Baroque continuo player and an accomplished cellist in the standard repertoire, with credits across some of Australia’s finest orchestras and chamber groups.

Stephen McTaggart

violin

Baroque violinist

Arcangelo Corelli

composer

Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) was an Italian Baroque violinist and composer. His sonatas and concerti grossi helped establish the violin’s pre-eminence and fixed models of the sonata and concerto that spread across Europe.

François Couperin

composer

François Couperin (1668–1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist, known as Couperin le Grand. Organist to Louis XIV and to Saint-Gervais in Paris, he remains the supreme French master of the harpsichord.

Girolamo Frescobaldi

composer

Girolamo Frescobaldi's keyboard music moves between flamboyant improvisatory toccatas and strict counterpoint, with sudden shifts of tempo and mood that still challenge performers. His canzonas, partitas and sacred organ works shaped Baroque keyboard writing for generations.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

composer

Rameau's harpsichord writing is theatre for the fingers: character pieces that cluck and whirl, doubles that spin a gavotte into pure virtuosity, and Pièces de clavecin en concerts where the keyboard stands equal with violin and flute rather than trailing as continuo.

Peter Hellendaal

composer

Jean-Marie Leclair

composer

Jean-Marie Leclair wrote violin sonatas, suites and concertos that helped found the French violin school, drawing Italian brilliance into French dance forms. His Première Recréation de musique is a suite of graceful, elegant movements.