Performing the Adagio - February 2001
In the February 2001 issue of Early Music (pp.15-26), David Ledbetter's article 'On the manner of playing the Adagio: Neglected features of a genre' discusses sonatas by Johann Joachim Quantz and Michel Blavet. By clicking on the following links you can download MP3 recordings of movements by Quantz and Blavet. The performances have been specially recorded for this website by Don Watts (Baroque flute) and David Ledbetter (harpsichord). You can also view facsimiles of these movements (GIF files) by clicking on the following links:
Quantz facsimile page 1: Cantabile from Johann Joachim Quantz, Sonata in B flat major QV1:162 (D-B KH M 4423, 'pour le nouveau Palais', reproduced by kind permission of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Musikabteilung mit Mendelssohn-Archiv)
Quantz facsimile page 2
Blavet facsimile: Adagio from Michel Blavet, Sonata in G major op.2 no.1 (1732), from the second printing (after 1733) (F-Pn Mus. Cons. X 180 A (2), cliché Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
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