Gordon Cherry has been running Cherry Classics for over 20 years. He is a leading professional Trombonist in North America, having performed as Principal Trombonist of the Vancouver Symphony, and the CBC Radio Orchestra. As well, Gordon has taught hundreds of Brass students for over 30 years at the University of British Columbia and many international leading music festivals.Details
Sonata per il Trombone e Continuo is about 8 minutes in length, is very suitable for advanced performers and may be best played with organ or harpsichord accompaniment and also contains a basso continuo part as well.
The package contains the trombone solo in traditional notation, solo part in ancient notation and a detailed preface explaining the performance practices, a continuo part in traditional baroque notation, ancient notation, preface, a fully written-out part in piano score format and also a basso continuo part for cello, etc.
Below is what Maximilien Brisson says about his very unique newly-composed baroque-style sonata.
This work was composed in December 2022 for the recording of Scorrete lagrime mie (Passacaille PAS 1153, released on November 1st, 2024), an album of 17th-century Italian vocal and instrumental solo music performed on baroque trombone. The premise of its composition was as follows: despite our instrument being used extensively throughout the 1600s, including in a very soloistic role in sonatas and canzonas for two, three or four instruments, very little actual solo repertoire from that time survives: Francesco Rognoni's Susana d'Orlando (1620), a set of virtuosic diminutions for trombone or violone on Orlando di Lasso's Susanne un jour; Giovanni Martino Cesare's La Hieronyma (1621), a short canzona for solo trombone and continuo; and an anonymous Sonata Trombone solo e Basso from a late-17th-century Czech manuscript, written in a somewhat later musical style.