Taya König-Tarasevich - Flute
Bartolomeo Dandolo Marchesi - Cello
Alexander von Heißen - Harpsichord


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Lotti, Antonio (1667-1740)
Trio Sonata in G major for Flute, Gamba/Cello andContinuo
0:06 Largo
1:42​ Allegro
​3:11 Adagio
5:11​ Vivace


Not only German musicians were hired by the courts: the organist Antonio Lotti was appointed by Frederich Augustus I of Saxony as resident composer of sacred and secular music for the Dresden court. As Lotti attempted to bring Italian opera troups to perform his work, several German musicians (among them Johann Christoph Schmidt) saw him as a threat and attempted to thwart his musical presence and influence in the court. Perhaps this lead to his eventual retreat back to Venice, where he was highly sought after as a composition teacher. Experienced in both sacred and secular music, as well as vocal and instrumental texture, Lotti displays a mastery of compositional techniques. In his Trio for flute, viola da gamba and harpsichord, Lotti does not shy from showing the affordances of the particular solo instruments. One question does arise for the performer: was viola da gamba the bass instrument that the second solo part written for? Though we may never be sure, the fact that Lotti doesn’t use the two lowest strings of viola da gamba cause the speculation whether it was a different instrument this part was written for. Could the four-stringed Violoncello Piccolo have been the intended instrument by Lotti?

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