Walhall Franz Biersack Triosonate c-Moll RV83 / Vivaldi, Antonio

From the editor's foreword:

»The key of C minor gives the entire work a serious and rather muted character. In all movements, the violin is assigned the leading role by introducing the themes, which the cello then imitates.

The first movement is the densest in terms of motifs and harmony: stormy triad breaks alternate with common, anapastic figures spaced a sixth apart, interrupted only by short, soaring solo episodes from the two solo instruments.

At the beginning of both parts in the cantabile middle movement there is an exclamatio, an upbeat, upward minor sixth. As in all movements, the solo episodes for the cadence formation of the various sections between violin and cello end rhythmically in the same motifs in thirds or sixths.

The final movement, also in two parts, is a minuet in the course of which the motifs of the first movement appear again, but here in reverse order: at the beginning an anapastic theme sounds, which is interrupted by an imitative semiquaver movement. United in the rhythm of an eighth note with four sixteenth notes, both instruments insist with the help of two 5-bar phrases and conclude the work.«