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    1. Cirri: Sonatas & Duos for Cello / Montesinos Defez, Breaking Bass Ensemble
    2. Cirri: Sonatas & Duos for Cello / Montesinos Defez, Breaking Bass Ensemble
    Brilliant Classics

    Cirri: Sonatas & Duos for Cello / Montesinos Defez, Breaking Bass Ensemble

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    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Artist
    Carlos Montesinos, Guillermo Turina, Agustin Orcha Mata, Pablo Marquez Carab
    Released
    Mar 25, 2022
    This world premiere recording presents four sonatas and four duos by Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724-1808), a cello virtuoso and teacher whose reputation took him across Europe – including to London, where for a time during the 1760s he was employed by members of the Royal Family, and took part in the first concert given in the English capital by the eight-year-old Mozart. By now, however, Cirri’s name has been almost forgotten, save through an edition of dubious scholarship from the 1950s of a viola concerto which is in fact an arrangement of one of his London cello sonatas. His set of six cello concertos Op 14 has been recorded before now, revealing his creative gifts to be not dazzlingly original but always pleasing, and superbly conceived for his own instrument. All cellists of an adventurous disposition will accordingly be drawn to this new collection, which contains work dating from after his return to Italy in 1780, and to his native Emilia-Romagna region. The Breaking Bass ensemble has selected four of the 12 Sonate di camera, and alternated them with four of the Eight Duets for two cellos to make a satisfying contrast of genre and texture within the album. The solo parts of the sonatas bristle with technical challenges as well as attractive melodic writing, and the duos are full of lively exchange between the two instruments, revealing a far more theatrical side to the composer, with the two instruments taking on solo roles and sharing the limelight on equal terms. They were clearly designed for pedagogical use to be performed by teacher and pupil.
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  • Cirri: Sonatas & Duos for Cello / Montesinos Defez, Breaking Bass Ensemble
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    Cirri: Sonatas & Duos for Cello / Montesinos Defez, Breaking Bass Ensemble

    Brilliant Classics Mar 2022
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  • Duos for Violin and Cello
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    Duos for Violin and Cello

    Oehms Classics Oct 2010
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    1. Out of Italy / Carrai, Zhu, Weaver, Stein
    2. Out of Italy / Carrai, Zhu, Weaver, Stein
    Avie Records

    Out of Italy / Carrai, Zhu, Weaver, Stein

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    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Carrai, Zhu, Weaver, Stein
    Released
    May 03, 2019
    The 18th century experienced a mass migration of musicians from Italy – hitherto regarded as “the home of music” – seeking better fortunes in nations to the north. Giacobbe Basevi Cervetto, Giambatista Cirri and Francesco Geminiani went to London, Luigi Boccherini to Madrid. Antonio Vivaldi aimed for Dresden though never arrived, having died en route in Vienna. These Italian instrumentalists / composers and others are the focus of Out of Italy, a survey of sonatas and duos for two cellos and continuo by eminent baroque cellist Phoebe Carrai and her protégé Beiliang Zhu, many of them quite rare. “full-bodied… distinguished performances that offer a genuine point of view” (Classics Today on Phoebe Carrai’s Bach Cello Suites) “elegant and sensual, stylishly wild” (The New Yorker on Beiliang Zhu)

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    Most composers in the programme are anything but familiar to most music lovers. This disc should contribute to making them better known. Phoebe Carrai and Beiliang Zhu are ideal advocates of their instrument and of its music from the 18th century. They deliver technically brilliant and musically compelling performances, and receive excellent support from Charles Weaver and Avi Stein.

    – MusicWeb International
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    Out of Italy / Carrai, Zhu, Weaver, Stein

    Avie Records May 2019
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