PRAECONIUM SOLITUDINIS
o siano
Praeludii, Ricercate, Passaggi, Arie & un Passagallo
per il Violino solo senza basso
with the addition of some inscribed texts
and with the images by Silvia Camporesi
2 CDs: almost two hours of music, fifty texts by poets, writers and philosophers (in their original languages and with English translations), eighteen very personal and in colour photographic images: all enclosed in a 100-page Media Book that can be purchased here:
Dimensions: cm. 20.6 x 15 x 1
LISTEN HERE:
PRAECONIUM SOLITUDINIS: L’isola nativa - The native island (Intuitio mystica - Mystical insight)
Recorded in Longiano, Fondazione Tito Balestra
(Castello Malatestiano), Cesena
in June 2017
with a booklet essay by Francesco Zimei
In English - Français - Italiano - Deutsch
“Cross-dressing Bach” is how Enrico Gatti and Rinaldo Alessandrini have chosen to call their Bach programme of rare works and alternative versions. They experiment with how marvelously enriched the musical writing becomes by changes in scoring, often with the instruments permeating one another, as the inversion of roles is reached. The flexibility of the instrumentation is linked to various stages in the composer’s career, to practical contingencies, and above all to the inexhaustible striving for perfection that induced Bach, according to his first biographer, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, to revise his works many times, refining them in every minimum detail. This compels us to take into account a rather different story from one that is rooted in our mentality as listeners, conditioned by the crystallization of the repertoire, and extorted by the Urtext-philosophy.”
(From the booklet essay by Francesco Zimei)
Listen to a sample track:
Neapolitan Instrumental Music for 1, 2, 3 and 4 violins
THE NEW RECORDING of Ensemble Aurora:
music by Leonardo Leo, Pietro Marchitelli, Giovanni Carlo Cailò, Nicola Fiorenza, Francesco Paolo Supriani
violins:
Enrico Gatti, Marie Rouquié,
Joanna Huszcza, Sebastiano Airoldi
cello:
Gaetano Nasillo
organ & harpsichord:
Guido Morini
Musicological research: Guido Olivieri (The University of Texas at Austin)
Cooproduced by Fondazione Pietà de' Turchini (Napoli) and Outhere Music France
With the support of "Gaudete" - Festival Internazionale di Musica Antica
Special thanks to the Istituto Abruzzese di Storia Musicale
Cover: Roman bronze from Ercolano, photo by Mimmo Jodice
Listen here: Leonardo Leo: Fuga
ARCANGELO CORELLI'S
EARLY VIOLIN SONATAS (before 1675):
THE "ASSISI SONATAS" (world première recording) & sonatas Anhang 33-34-35-36
Listen to the SONATA n.10:
Music by: Palestrina, Frescobaldi, Lasso, Castello, Rosenmüller, Corelli, Bach & Mozart
Music by G.B. Fontana, A. Bertali, T.Merula, M.Uccellini, G.A.Bertoli, G.Legrenzi, D.Castello, M.Rossi, A.Piccinini
Diminutions by F.Rognoni, A.Virgiliano, E.Gatti
with the original Luca Neri organ (1647)
sonate a tre op.IV, Roma, 1694 (registrazione integrale)
Luigi Boccherini: Stabat Mater G. 532, first version for soprano and string quintet (1781)
Concerto in b minor for traverso and strings
Sonate a tre per due violini e violone o cimbalo op. I (complete recording)
(E.Gatti violino, R. Croce violino, J.M. Becker cello, G.Morini cembalo & organo, M.Pustilnik
arciliuto)
Sonate a violino e cimbalo op. II (antologia)
(E.Gatti violino, G.Nasillo cello, G.Morini cembalo, M.Pustilnik arciliuto)
Sonate a violino e violone o cimbalo op. V (integrale)
(E.Gatti violino, G.Nasillo cello, G.Morini cembalo)
Oratorio “La Susanna” (E.Galli, B.Zanichelli, R.Balconi, L.Dordolo, M.Bellotto, 2 violini, v.cello,
arpa, cembalo, organo, c.basso)
Sonate op. I & op. II per violino e basso (E.Gatti violino, G.Nasillo cello, G.Morini cembalo)
Musikalisches Opfer (Offerta Musicale BWV 1079)
Marcello Gatti, flauto traverso; Enrico Gatti, violin; Gaetano Nasillo, violoncello; Guido Morini, harpsicord.