| It is not sung, but only declaimed, and the music is like an obbligato recitative. |
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| The recital concludes with a rarely heard aria with cello obbligato from Arianna, written for the soprano castrato Carlo Scalzi. |
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| They were customarily for solo voice with continuo, but pieces for up to five voices were also composed and obbligato parts sometimes included. |
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| It is more baroque than the first in that for obbligato piano it substitutes real interchange between ripieno strings and concertino quartet. |
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| Acting as his lyre, he has two obbligato bass viols which creates a series of remarkable timbres. |
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| For instance, he wrote six trio sonatas for solo organ and others for obbligato harpsichord and melodic instrument. |
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| The orchestra is treated as a chamber ensemble, which lends strength to the concept of a genuine chamber symphony with obbligato voice. |
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| Moreover, these consist partly of simple trios for two violins and bass, partly of generous, concertante movements with obbligato organ. |
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| The cor anglais and violin obbligato in the duet for male alto and tenor, Wie selig, with its thirds and lyrical highlights was particularly effective. |
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| The use of a pianoforte to play chamber music pieces by Bach with obbligato keyboard parts is thus justifiable not only on historical grounds, but also, in our opinion, for musical reasons. |
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| All the songs have subtly different orchestrations, with a prominent obbligato part for a different instrument in each. |
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| The noise of the traffic outside the building on the boulevard made an unmusical obbligato to my thinking. |
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| Within the collection of the six sonatas for obbligato harpsichord and violin, the A-major sonata certainly has the most extensive canonic writing. |
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| In addition to the classical chorale prelude for solo organ, Homilius also cultivated a remarkably unique form: the arranging of a chorale with the use of an obbligato melody instrument. |
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| This is a moving lament structured over a seven-bar ground bass with the solo obbligato violin echoing the sighs of the voice and creating a seamless texture. |
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| It is impossible when listening to it not to think of the adagio from the Sonata in G minor for obbligato harpsichord and viola da gamba by J. S. Bach. |
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| They include six trio sonatas for organ as well as a body of eleven sonatas for obbligato harpsichord with a single melodic instrument, of which five are presented on this disc. |
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| Besides the 20 trio sonatas for two violins and continuo, we find two sonatas a quattro and four sonatas for harpsichord obbligato and violin or flute. |
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| The other harpsichord plays the obbligato part originally cast by Duphly. |
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| The two sonatas with obbligato keyboard parts raise other questions. |
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| But just as suddenly the orchestra regains the initiative and sings the theme, with piano obbligato, before an astonishing harmonization from divided strings brings the movement to a sudden close. |
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| Distinctive features of the Symphony No 4 include the use of a specially high tuned violin in the second movement, which provides a spiky, unsettling solo obbligato. |
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