Artist description Scandinavian Baroque Trio was created in 1991 with the purpose of investigating the early music for violin, viola da gamba and keyboard. These recordings is the result of their work with the development of the triosonata from its offspring in Italy and at the Imperial court in Vienna to the culmination in northern Germany represented by Dietrich Buxtehude. Scandinavian Baroque Trio has been touring in the Nordic Countries, Germany and France.

Music Style Authentic performance of Baroque music

Musical Influences JS Bach among others

Similar Artists baroque, Telemann, Bach

Artist History Instrumental music in the modern sense is generally recognized to have its roots in early 17th century Italy. The advent of the sonata in Venice is the result of several both culturally and practically advantageous factors. First, Venice had a strong vocal tradition; the earliest composers of instrumental sonatas with figured bass took the instrumental “choir” tradition as a starting point. Venice also had the instruments. The sonata fulfilled the needs for a new form to explore the potentials of the rather recently invented violin and develop its features. Furthermore, Venice was by tradition a leading cultural center, which must have been a perfect milieu for the invention of new musical forms. Also, the 30 years war was raging in central and northern Europe 1618-1648, which substantially reduced the interest of spending money and efforts on culture in those countries. The music theorist Athanasius Kircher, himself a refugee from the war, in his book Musurgia Universalis, Rome 1650, classifies the sonata, together with the toccata and ricercare, as a form of composition within the Stylus Phantasticus, the fantastic style. The definition of this style as fantastic probably refers to its allowing the composers almost unlimited possibilities of writing music free from any formal constraints. Thus, the sonata became multi-sectioned, with often extremely contrasting ideas, sometimes having elements reminiscent of true improvisation.

Group Members Roland Kjellström, baroque violin, Jens Nørbæk, viola da gamba, Peter Lönnerberg, harpsicord and chamber organ

Press Reviews mp3.com: The intensity of a trio is well-defined with this excellent group of Scandinavian musicians.

Location Copenhagen - Denmark

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