Joyful violin/cello sonata by unidentified composer, please help

Started by Amebix, December 09, 2007, 12:47:37 PM

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Amebix

This is a song I heard some while ago on a dayly classical radio show. I didnt at the time get the composer, nationality or name of the composition. I tried some weeks later to check the playlists for the show, but was unable to recall the exact day and time.

I still recall one of the melodies from it quite clearly, and have made my best efforts to reconstruct the lead section (check the link), in two slightly alternative versions (the clip is 9 seconds in total). It is pretty much accurate in melody and rythm.

All else I can say is that it was a somewhat joyful/playful song, played with cello or violin (or similar) as the lead instrument. Perhaps from the barouqe period. The part I recall was pretty simple simple in structure and form (for classical music), actually "catchy", alternating between 2 or more melody themes, repeatingly returning to this theme. I think it was polyphonous, played with perhaps 2 instrument sections (but no pianos, harpsichords or anything like that). As the sound clip shows, it goes in a 3-beat time signature (or something like that), in a perhaps danceble rythm.

If anyone can think of anything when they hear this short melody cut, I'd be pleased to check it out.

All tips are welcome.

Amebix

Ok, thanks to those who have taken their time to download the clip.

A little more about the play:
-It was probably the last song in the whole composition
-It sounded somewhat european folk influenced, but not of the eastern europe kind.
-From all I have listened to of classic music (in fact very little) I find the most similarities to Correli.
-I might also mention that after having searching the radios playlist up and down and googled some composers, I ended up with the idea that it could might be Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (since she's a french baroque folk-inspired composer), but I didnt find any plays by her that matched. (but one sonata I found sounded not very dissimilar).
According to the playlists, it should in that case (if its her) be one of the following:

Sonata in D major for 2 violins and continuo
Sonate i D-dur Musica Fiorita Dirigent (the same one maybe)
Triosonate no. 4 in g minor for two violins and cello (+b.c.)

Mozart

I'm not a baroque expert, but the chamber music I have heard usually has the violin or cello doing all the work and the harpsichordist banging his head on the keys from boredom.