L’Arte del Violino in Italia (1650-1700)

At the start of the 1990s the Perugian violinist Enrico Gatti made a number of important recordings chronicling the development of the Italian violin schools across the later 17th century, as composerviolinists (such as Pandolfi Mealli, Cazzati, Uccellini, Vitali and Torelli and many more) developed new musical forms and techniques designed to show off the instrument and its capabilities. Glossa is very happy to be bringing back into circulation now two of those releases focusing on a golden age for Italian instrumental music, signed by the production team of Sigrid Lee and Roberto Meo, and led by Gatti demonstrating his special qualities as a musician: a deep understanding of the repertory and the transformational capacities of the Baroque in music allied to an expressive, subtle yet virtuosic style of playing. Gatti’s refined approach to the interpretation of violin music remains a refreshing antidote to other more “high velocity” styles; this pair of recordings, entitled L’Arte del Violino in Italia, provides a rich anticipation for Gatti’s later recordings for Glossa of sonatas by Antonio Vivaldi.

Works:

• Pietro Degli Antoni: Sonata settima
• Angelo Berardi: Capriccio pa camera
• Giovanni Maria Bononcini: Corrente "La Pegolotta"
• Giovanni Maria Bononcini: Allemanda "La Guelfa"
• Giovanni Maria Bononcini: Corrente "L'Incognita"
• Giovanni Maria Bononcini: Sonata da chiesa Nr. 10
• Maurizio Cazzati: Sonata a 2 "La Gaetana"
• Giuseppe Colombi: Scordatura a vioino solo senza basso - Ciacon
• Giuseppe Colombi: Variazioni a 2 sull' "Aria di Bergamasca"
• Domenico Gabrielli: Ricercare für Violine solo
• Agostino Guerrieri: Sonata a 2 detta "La Lucina"
• Agostino Guerrieri: Sonata malinconica a solo
• Giuseppe Maria Jacchini: Sonata settima a 3
• Carlo Mannelli: Sinfonia für Violine solo
• Nicola Matteis: Passaggio a solo - Fuga a 2 corde - Ground
• Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi MealliSonata quarta "La Castella"
• Tarquinio Merula: Sonate prima & a seconda a 2
• Giuseppe Torelli: Perfidia für 2 Violinen
• Marco Uccellini: Sonata seconda detta "La Luciminia contenta"
• Marco Uccellini: Sinfonia seconda für Violine solo
• Marco Uccellini: Aria XI sopra "Caporal Simon"
• Marco Uccellini: Sonata XXVI a 3 sopra "La Prosperina"
• Marco Uccellini: Aria XIII sopra "Questa bella sirena"
• Marco Uccellini: Sonata XXVII a 3
• Marco Uccellini: Aria XV sopra "La Scatola degli aghi"
• Giovanni Battista Vitali: Sonata "La Guidoni
• Giovanni Battista Vitali: Sonata da chiesa Nr. 12
• Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani: Sonata prima
• Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani: Symphonia cantabile