Trio Sonata in A minor
Instrumentation: Two violins, and bass with bc
Author/editor/arranger: Howard
Publisher: Peacock Press
Format: Sheet music
Product code: PEMS033V
£8.00
Italianate sonata, re-created by Alan Howard from the surviving first violin part.
The little-known English composer Sampson Estwick (d.1739) was a clergyman and noted bass singer at St Paul’s Cathedral. An orphaned first violin part in A minor, in a set dated 1686 at the British Library, has been cleverly used by Howard “to re-create a plausible second part and bass part .... a brilliant trio sonata which sounds ‘authentic’ from Purcell’s London.” (Oliver Smith, Recorder Magazine.)
Alan Howard is a musicologist with a primary research interest in the music of Henry Purcell and his contemporaries in Restoration England, and is a lecturer, director and tutor at Cambridge University.
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