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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

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Details

Composer
Giovanni Battista Cirri
Artist
Carlos Montesinos, Guillermo Turina, Agustin Orcha Mata, Pablo Marquez Carab
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Mar 25, 2022
Catalog #
BRI96416
UPC
5028421964164

About

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.

Tracklist 24 tracks

  1. 1 I. Adagio 02:14
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Adagio
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  2. 2 II. Allegro moderato 02:21
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  3. 3 III. Minuetto 01:54
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Minuetto
    Duration
    01:54
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  4. 4 I. Largo 02:46
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Largo
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  5. 5 II. Allegro 02:56
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  6. 6 III. Allegro 01:55
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  7. 7 I. Allegro non molto 01:41
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Allegro non molto
    Duration
    01:41
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  8. 8 II. Adagio 03:14
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    03:14
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  9. 9 III. Tempo di minuetto 02:02
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Tempo di minuetto
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  10. 10 I. Largo 02:53
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Largo
    Duration
    02:53
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  11. 11 II. Allegro 02:19
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  12. 12 III. Allegro 02:27
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    02:27
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  13. 13 I. Allegro moderato 02:44
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  14. 14 II. Adagio 01:45
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  15. 15 III. Tempo di minuetto 02:06
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Tempo di minuetto
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  16. 16 I. Largo 03:32
    Track
    16
    Title
    I. Largo
    Duration
    03:32
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  17. 17 II. Allegro 02:04
    Track
    17
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  18. 18 III. Allegro 01:46
    Track
    18
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  19. 19 I. Allegro ma poco 02:20
    Track
    19
    Title
    I. Allegro ma poco
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  20. 20 II. Adagio 01:57
    Track
    20
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    01:57
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  21. 21 III. Rondo: Allegretto 02:15
    Track
    21
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegretto
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  22. 22 I. Largo 02:28
    Track
    22
    Title
    I. Largo
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  23. 23 II. Allegro 02:49
    Track
    23
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    02:49
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble
  24. 24 III. Allegro 01:58
    Track
    24
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    01:58
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Ensemble
    Breaking Bass Ensemble