Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violoncello Piccolo Mario Brunello
Album info
Album-Release:
2019
HRA-Release:
18.10.2019
Label: Arcana
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Artist: Mario Brunello
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001:
- 1 Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: I. Adagio 04:07
- 2 Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: II. Fuga (Allegro) 06:56
- 3 Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: III: Siciliana 03:20
- 4 Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: IV. Presto 04:23
- Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002:
- 5 Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: I. Allemanda - Double 09:47
- 6 Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: II. Corrente - Double (Presto) 10:05
- 7 Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: III: Sarabande - Double 06:00
- 8 Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: IV. Tempo di Borea - Double 08:23
- Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003:
- 9 Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: I. Grave 03:57
- 10 Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: II. Grave 09:23
- 11 Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: III: Andante 05:22
- 12 Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: IV. Allegro 07:04
- Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004:
- 13 Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: I. Allemanda 04:03
- 14 Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: II: Corrente 03:20
- 15 Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: III: Sarabanda 04:41
- 16 Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: IV: Giga 05:09
- 17 Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Ciaccona 16:00
- Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005:
- 18 Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: I. Adagio 04:34
- 19 Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: II: Fuga 13:07
- 20 Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: III: Largo 03:52
- 21 Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: IV. Allegro assai 06:13
- Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006:
- 22 Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: I. Preludio 04:40
- 23 Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: II: Loure 03:55
- 24 Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: III. Gavotte en rondeau 03:14
- 25 Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: IV. Menuet I 01:49
- 26 Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: V. Menuet II 02:41
- 27 Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: VI. Bourrée 02:08
- 28 Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: VII. Gigue 02:15
Info for Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violoncello Piccolo
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)
Mario Brunello, cello
Mario Brunello
In 1986 Mario Brunello was the first Italian ever to win the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, which launched him into a stunning international career. Brunello has played with some of the most prestigious orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, NHK Symphony Tokyo, Kioi Sinfonietta, Filarmonica della Scala, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, DSO Berlin. He has collaborated with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Yuri Temirkanov, Antonio Pappano, Manfred Honeck, Riccardo Chailly, Riccardo Muti, Vladimir Jurowski, Ton Koopman, Daniele Gatti, John Axelrod, Myung-Whun Chung, Seiji Ozawa and Claudio Abbado. Abbado has, over the years, invited Brunello several times to play with him and the Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival and the Mozart Orchestra. With both orchestras, Brunello has appeared as a soloist and as a conductor.
He often takes on the double roles of conductor and soloist, and in 1994 he founded the Orchestra d'Archi Italiana with whom he tours intensively both in Italy and abroad.
Chamber music plays an important role in his artistic life and he collaborates with artists including Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Isabelle Faust, Yuri Bashmet, Maurizio Pollini, Valery Afanassiev, Andrea Lucchesini, and the Hugo Wolff Quartet.
Brunello also devotes much time to projects involving diverse art forms (literature, philosophy, science, theatre). Through new ways of communication, he tries to attract new audiences, creating interactive performances of music, images and words. A large number of these activities take place in Antiruggine, a remodelled workshop that is ideal for these experiments.
His recordings include Dvorak Cello Concerto recorded live in Rome with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra and Antonio Pappano (EMI), Beethoven Triple Concerto w i t h t h e M o z a r t Orchestra and Claudio Abbado (DGG) and a five-CD box set entitled “Brunello Series" on Egea Records containing: “Odusia” a CD dedicated to the Mediterranean culture, “Brunello and Vivaldi” dedicated to Vivaldi Cello Concertos, “Violoncello and” a CD with contemporary works for solo cello, “Schubert e Lekeu” with the pianist Andrea Lucchesini and a double CD with a new recording of Bach Cello Suites, this last awarded w i t h the “Italian Critic Award 2 0 10”.
The most recent release is a DVD of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto n. 2 recorded live at Salle Pleyel in Paris with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra.
2016/17 season highlights include appearances in many of the world’s most prestigious venues: Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Kioi Hall in Tokyo, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro La Scala in Milan with Myung-whun Chung and La Filarmonica. This season also sees performances at Die Glocke in Bremen, Philipszaal in Eindhoven, National Gallery in London. Brunello returns to Tokyo and Nagoya with an important project for the winners of the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition.
Brunello has been Artist-in-Residence at MiTo Festival 2016, where he performed six concerts, two of them both as a conductor and soloist with Turin Filarmonica.
In 2017 he will start an ambitious project celebrating J.S. Bach’s string music, exploring the complete Bach Cello Suites and Sonatas and Partitas originally for violin, performed on the cello piccolo.
Mario Brunello plays a precious Maggini cello from the 1600s.
Booklet for Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violoncello Piccolo