Ariosti: 6 Lessons for Viola d'Amore & Continuo / Bertuzzi, Nastrucci, Constantini, Righini

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
March 25, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Attilio Ariosti
    • PERFORMER
      Mauro Righini, Elena Bertuzzi, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 25, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421956206
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95620
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    2. II. Largo

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    3. III. Andante

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    4. I. Cantabile: Grave

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    5. II. Vivace

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    6. III. Sarabande: Adagio

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    7. IV. Menuet

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    8. I. Adagio

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    9. II. Allemanda

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    10. III. Adagio

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    11. IV. Giga

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    12. I. Adagio

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    13. II. Andante

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    14. III. Corrente

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    15. IV. Giga

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    16. I. Vivace

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    17. II. Largo

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    18. III. (Giga)

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    19. I. A tempo Giusto

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    20. II. Corrente

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    21. III. Giga

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    22. IV. Rondeaux

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    23. No. 1. Pur alfin gentil viola Aria

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Elena Bertuzzi, Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    24. No. 2. Non fu saggio il consiglio recitativo

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Elena Bertuzzi, Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini

    25. No. 3. Beltã  che col rigor aria

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Performer: Elena Bertuzzi, Mauro Righini, Ugo Nastrucci, Danilo Costantini


Attilio Malachia Ariosti (1666-1730) was born in Bologna, Italy and became a well-regarded violinist, organist, composer and librettist. He took vows at the order of the Serviti as Frate Ottavio in 1688 and was appointed organist in the church of S. Maria dei Servi in Bologna in 1693. He travelled to Mantua and Venice, the most enlightened musical and artistic centers of northern Italy and then moved to Berlin and lately to Vienna in 1703. Expelled from the Papal State for moral reasons, in 1716 he lived in London where, together with Bononcini and Handel, he became a permanent composer of the Royal Academy. At the King's Theater he played viola d'amore in the intervals between the acts, "...a new symphony composed by the famous Mr. Attilio Ariosti in which he will play a new instrument called viola d'amore".

The Six Lessons for Viola d'Amore, published in London in 1724 and dedicated to King George, are harmonically and melodically appealing and were composed expressly to teach violinists to play viola d'amore. The viola d’amore has six or seven strings and the same number of resonating "sympathetic" strings placed under the bridge, which produce its warm, ringing timbre. On the final track, soprano Elena Bertuzzi joins violist Mauro Righini and continuo players for the chamber cantata Pur alfin gentil viola.