Ophélie Gaillard, Sandrine Piau, Pulcinella Orchestra
AP194 - 2CD - 117' - Feb 22, 2019
Cellist Ophélie Gaillard and Pulcinella Orchestra focus on Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer and first virtuoso cellist in history. Born in the Tuscany, Boccherini then went to the Court of Prussa and Spain. His musical education looks like a journey around Europe, as it used to be.
Long eclipsed by the violin, star of the string instruments, the cello slowly fit in the eighteenth century repertoire thanks to composers who played the instrument themselves. The now famous Suites of Johan Sebastian Bach are the first master pieces composed for the cello. Then Luigi Boccherini strengthened its place in the musical creation, thus becoming to cello what Vivaldi was to the violin one generation earlier.
With rhythms of dance from Andalusia and melodies dug along the streets of Madrid, Boccherini draws with notes his adopted country such as his contemporary Francisco Goya did with colours.
This double album explores all the genres (concertos, sonatas, symphonies) and invites the gorgeous Sandrine Piau to perform Boccherini’s poignant Stabat Mater for string quintet and solo soprano.
CD1
Concerto pour violoncelle no 6 en ré majeur G. 479
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Allegro
Symphonie no 6 en ré mineur « La Casa del Diavolo »,G. 506
4. Andante sostenuto – Allegro assai
5. Andantino con moto
6. Andante sostenuto – Allegro con moto
Concerto pour violoncelle no 9 sib majeur G. 482
7. Allegro moderato
8. Andantino grazioso
9. Rondo. Allegro
Quintette à cordes en ut majeur « La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid »,op. 30 no 6, G. 324
10. Ave Maria delle Parrochie
11. Il tamburo dei soldati
12. Minuetto dei ciechi
13. Il rosario Largo assai
14. Los Manolos (Passa calle) Allegro vivo
15. Il tamburo
16. La ritirata di Madrid Tempo di marcia
CD2
Stabat Mater G. 532
1. Stabat mater dolorosa Grave assai
2. Cujus animam gementem Allegro 2’00
3. Quae moerebat et dolebat Allegretto con moto
4. Quis est homo Adagio assai – Recitativo
5. Pro peccatis suae gentis Allegretto
6. Eja mater, fons amoris Larghetto non tanto
7. Tui nati vulnerati Allegro vivo
8. Virgo virginum praeclara Andantino
9. Fac ut portem Christi mortem Larghetto
10. Fac me plagis vulnerari Allegro comodo
11. Quando corpus morietur Andante lento
Sonate pour violoncelle et pianoforte no 2 en ut mineur G. 2
12. Adagio
13. Allegro
14. Allegretto
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