Giovanni Sollima, Federico Guglielmo & Il pomo d’oro – Al-Bunduqiyya – The Lost Concerto (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Giovanni Sollima, Federico Guglielmo & Il pomo d’oro – Al-Bunduqiyya – The Lost Concerto (2024)
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The charismatic, cosmopolitan cellist Giovanni Sollima joins the instrumentalists of Il Pomo d’Oro for Al-Bunduqiyya – The Lost Concerto.

The album, which crosses cultures and eras, sets Vivaldi, born in Venice in 1678, in the context of his native city’s historical relationship with the eastern Mediterranean and Asia. Al-Bunduqiyya is the Arabic name for Venice and ‘The Lost Concerto’ (Il Concerto Perduto) is a work composed in 2021 by Sollima. His starting point was all that remains of one of Vivaldi’s concertos for cello: the orchestral viola part, now preserved at the Venice Conservatory.

Among the other items are complete concertos by Vivaldi, solo improvisations by Sollima, a piece by Vivaldi’s contemporary Tartini, and music of the Cypriot and Albanian traditions.

When the programme of Al-Bunduqiyya was performed at London’s Wigmore Hall, Seen and Heard International wrote: “Sollima conjured a feast of tone colours, plunging into pizzicatos, climbing to the heights of the fingerboard with Romantic bravura, conjuring ornamental flourishes with improvisatory flair, finding intense sentiment before whipping up a wild dance and concluding with some glissandi yelps! This was as much theatre as music.”

Tracklist:
1-01. Giovanni Sollima – Kartsilamades: No. 1, Moderato (Arr. Sollima) (02:07)
1-02. Giovanni Sollima – Moghul (04:35)
1-03. Giovanni Sollima – Il concerto perduto: I. Allegro (After Vivaldi’s Cello Concerto, RV 787 “Per Teresa”) (03:16)
1-04. Giovanni Sollima – Il concerto perduto: II. Andante (After Vivaldi’s Cello Concerto, RV 787 “Per Teresa”) (05:35)
1-05. Giovanni Sollima – Il concerto perduto: III. Allegro molto (After Vivaldi’s Cello Concerto, RV 787 “Per Teresa”) (02:42)
1-06. Giovanni Sollima – Improvisation I (01:16)
1-07. Giovanni Sollima – Concerto for Violin and Cello in F Major, RV 544 “Proteo o sia il mondo al rovescio”: I. Allegro (03:46)
1-08. Giovanni Sollima – Concerto for Violin and Cello in F Major, RV 544 “Proteo o sia il mondo al rovescio”: II. Largo (02:40)
1-09. Giovanni Sollima – Concerto for Violin and Cello in F Major, RV 544 “Proteo o sia il mondo al rovescio”: III. Allegro (03:01)
1-10. Giovanni Sollima – Moj E Bukura More (Arr. Sollima) (06:14)
1-11. Giovanni Sollima – 26 Violin Sonatas: No. 12 in G Major, B. G2: Aria del Tasso e gondoliera. “Lieto ti prendo e poi” (Transcr. Sollima for Cello and Orchestra) (02:05)
1-12. Giovanni Sollima – Kartsilamades: No. 3, Allegro (Arr. Sollima) (02:01)
1-13. Giovanni Sollima – Improvisation IV (00:46)
1-14. Giovanni Sollima – Concerto for Violin and Cello in B-Flat Major, RV 547: I. Allegro (03:56)
1-15. Giovanni Sollima – Concerto for Violin and Cello in B-Flat Major, RV 547: II. Andante (01:41)
1-16. Giovanni Sollima – Concerto for Violin and Cello in B-Flat Major, RV 547: III. Allegro molto (02:37)
1-17. Giovanni Sollima – Kartsilamades: No. 2, Moderato (Arr. Sollima) (02:15)
1-18. Giovanni Sollima – Dorilla in Tempe, RV 709, Sinfonia: I. Allegro (02:00)
1-19. Giovanni Sollima – Dorilla in Tempe, RV 709, Sinfonia: II. Andante (02:06)
1-20. Giovanni Sollima – Dorilla in Tempe, RV 709, Sinfonia: III. Allegro (00:32)
1-21. Giovanni Sollima – Improvisation V (01:16)
1-22. Giovanni Sollima – Violin Concerto in D Major, RV 208 “Grosso Mogul”: II. Recitativo (02:41)
1-23. Giovanni Sollima – Improvisation II (00:52)
1-24. Giovanni Sollima – Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Major, RV 546 “All’inglese”: I. Allegro (03:17)
1-25. Giovanni Sollima – Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Major, RV 546 “All’inglese”: II. Andante (02:41)
1-26. Giovanni Sollima – Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Major, RV 546 “All’inglese”: III. Allegro (02:53)
1-27. Giovanni Sollima – When We Were Trees: The Family Tree (04:29)
1-28. Giovanni Sollima – Improvisation III (00:49)

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