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

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
March 25, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Giovanni Battista Cirri
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Breaking Bass Ensemble
    • PERFORMER
      Carlos Montesinos, Guillermo Turina, Agustin Orcha Mata, Pablo Marquez Carab
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 25, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421964164
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96416
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adagio

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    2. II. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    3. III. Minuetto

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    4. I. Largo

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    5. II. Allegro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    6. III. Allegro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    7. I. Allegro non molto

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    8. II. Adagio

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    9. III. Tempo di minuetto

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    10. I. Largo

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    11. II. Allegro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    12. III. Allegro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    13. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    14. II. Adagio

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    15. III. Tempo di minuetto

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    16. I. Largo

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    17. II. Allegro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    18. III. Allegro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    19. I. Allegro ma poco

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    20. II. Adagio

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    21. III. Rondo: Allegretto

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    22. I. Largo

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    23. II. Allegro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble

    24. III. Allegro

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri

      Ensemble: Breaking Bass Ensemble


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.