Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Mario Brunello
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Arcana
Release: 2019
Size: 3.05 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001
01. I. Adagio
02. II. Fuga (Allegro)
03. III: Siciliana
04. IV. Presto
Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002
05. I. Allemanda – Double
06. II. Corrente – Double (Presto)
07. III: Sarabande – Double
08. IV. Tempo di Borea – Double
Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003
09. I. Grave
10. II. Grave
11. III: Andante
12. IV. Allegro
Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004
13. I. Allemanda
14. II: Corrente
15. III: Sarabanda
16. IV: Giga
17. V. Ciaccona
Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005
18. I. Adagio
19. II: Fuga
20. III: Largo
21. IV. Allegro assai
Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006
22. I. Preludio
23. II: Loure
24. III. Gavotte en rondeau
25. IV. Menuet I
26. V. Menuet II
27. VI. Bourrée
28. VII. Gigue
Since winning the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1986, Mario Brunello has established himself as one of the foremost living cellists. An eclectic musician, for some years Brunello has also taken an interest in the world of historically informed performance practice and the rediscovery of the four-string ‘violoncello piccolo’. This instrument, slightly smaller than the cello, is known today for its presence in some sacred cantatas of Bach, but it was surely used much more widely in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries than the currently known repertory would lead us to think.This recording of the Sonate & Partite per violino solo inaugurates the collaboration on the Arcana label with a ‘Bach Brunello Series’ of three CDs, in which important compositions for the violin from his catalogue will be performed on the violoncello piccolo. The booklet includes texts by Bach scholar Peter Wollny and Italian writer Alessandro Baricco.
‘I want to approach the Sonatas and Partitas “from the ground up”, in every sense. Violinists “fly high”, they are always on top of the melody, they see the music from above. I am therefore not proposing an imitation of the violin, but rather a specular reading, a conquest of the summit by another route. A mountain seen from the south or from the north changes the perspective, but not the substance.’ (Mario Brunello)