Brunetti: Divertimenti / Proyecto Brunetti

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
January 21, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Gaetano Brunetti
    • PERFORMER
      Proyecto Brunetti, Fernando Pascual, Pere Joan Carrascosa, Isabel Lopez
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 21, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421964850
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96485
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Andante

      Composer: Gaetano Brunetti

      Ensemble: Proyecto Brunetti

    2. II. Allegretto

      Composer: Gaetano Brunetti

      Ensemble: Proyecto Brunetti

    3. I. Larghetto pastorale

      Composer: Gaetano Brunetti

      Ensemble: Proyecto Brunetti

    4. II. Allegretto con moto

      Composer: Gaetano Brunetti

      Ensemble: Proyecto Brunetti

    5. I. Largo

      Composer: Gaetano Brunetti

      Ensemble: Proyecto Brunetti

    6. II. Rondeau. Allegretto

      Composer: Gaetano Brunetti

      Ensemble: Proyecto Brunetti

    7. I. Larghetto staccato

      Composer: Gaetano Brunetti

      Ensemble: Proyecto Brunetti

    8. II. Allegretto

      Composer: Gaetano Brunetti

      Ensemble: Proyecto Brunetti

    9. I. Cantabile

      Composer: Gaetano Brunetti

      Ensemble: Proyecto Brunetti

    10. II. Allegretto

      Composer: Gaetano Brunetti

      Ensemble: Proyecto Brunetti

    11. I. Larghetto

      Composer: Gaetano Brunetti

      Ensemble: Proyecto Brunetti

    12. II. Allegro di molto. Scherzando

      Composer: Gaetano Brunetti

      Ensemble: Proyecto Brunetti


Proyecto Brunetti is a flexible ensemble formed with the aim of promoting the chamber music of Gaetano Brunetti (1744-1798). Its founder-cellist is Pere Joan Carrascosa, who has also edited the manuscripts of this divertimento collection for publication and written the authoritative booklet essay on the composer’s life and work. The album can be considered a first port of call for anyone looking to investigate the figure of Brunetti. When they do so, they will find music of elegant gestures and appealing gentility, clear-cut melodies and subtle innovation. The greater part of his surviving music is cast in the genre of string trio which was a reliable source of entertainment for both amateur musicians and audiences in the latter half of the 18th century. There are 47 such trios in eight collections of six (minus one in the last case), and this album presents the third such collection. Brunetti probably wrote it between 1772 and 1774 while in service to the Prince of Asturias, later to become Charles/Carlo IV of Spain. The Prince himself probably played second fiddle to the composer in those pieces scored with two violins, with the composer’s son Francesco on the cello. Structurally straightforward, each divertimento comprises two movements cast in either a basic sonata or rondo form. It is their melodic freshness, harmonic invention and the stylishness of their writing, treating all three parts as equals, that elevates them beyond the value of ephemeral entertainment.