Hasse - Sinfonia in F Major

[RICPOIRIER1]

Very good music!

(from Montreal, Qc)

[bubblykings]

Wow!! - both the music and the painting! :)

[pietalpha2]

another joy to listen to (for me) first thing in the morning!!

thank you again for this posting

[jasjjb]

Superb ! Very melodious and full of beautiful harmony. Also - as I have commented some time ago - once the names Musica Antiqua Koln and Reinhard Goebel appear I HAVE to listen because it is always high quality stuff ! Many thanks !!

[GMJ7]

What a lovely sinfonia! Thanks muchly for sharing. :) It's so charming to hear the "intermediate" qualities here between the Baroque instrumentation/heavy sequencing and the Classical treament of melody/phrase symmetry.

This Hasse fellow's chamber pieces sure are gems. It's a shame his scores are so hard to find! I would especially like to set my eyes on the score of the first Allegro here...

[Garpinator]

This is probably more of an overture in three movements than a chamber piece. Hasse was primarily an opera composer and in the baroque era the word 'sinfonia' was usually used to refer to a renaissance style ricercar or else to what came to be called an overture in the classical era. Even Salieri still used 'Sinfonia' to refer to the overture of his 'La Grotta di Trifonio'.