Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Bach: Sei suonate à cembalo certato è violino solo (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

The violinist Chiara Zanisi works with the finest early music ensembles, notably the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman, with whom she has just finished a long tour performing the Six Brandenburg Concertos. She now devotes her first solo recording to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin. Alongside her is Giulia Nuti, among the most brilliant harpsichordists and scholars in Italy, whose solo CD Les Sauvages: Harpsichords in pre-Revolutionary Paris (DHM) won a Diapason d’Or, among other awards. The kernel from which this project grew is their strongly shared idea that, in addition to great stylistic richness and invention, Bach’s music possesses an aura of magic and an almost divine form. Thus, in this valuable and elegant reading, it is clearly their intention to underline in the simplest way the grandeur of the writing. Even the choice of sound aesthetic, beautifully realised under the supervision of Fabio Framba, opts for the ‘real’ with a ‘pure’, ‘speaking’ sound, warm and full of harmonics. The attractions of this precious version of the Six Sonatas, played on a G. Gagliano violin of 1761 and a harpsichord by K. Hill, are enhanced by a bonus track: the Cantabile, un poco Adagio from the early version of Sonata VI in G major.

Tracklist:
1-01. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1014: I. Adagio (03:18)
1-02. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1014: II. Allegro (02:55)
1-03. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1014: III. Andante (03:11)
1-04. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1014: IV. Allegro (03:19)
1-05. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, BWV 1015: I. Dolce (02:39)
1-06. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, BWV 1015: II. Allegro assai (03:05)
1-07. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, BWV 1015: III. Andante un poco (03:24)
1-08. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, BWV 1015: IV. Presto (04:19)
1-09. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016: I. Adagio (03:32)
1-10. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016: II. Allegro (03:01)
1-11. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016: III. Adagio ma non tanto (04:36)
1-12. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016: IV. Allegro (03:42)
2-01. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: I. Largo (04:03)
2-02. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: II. Allegro (04:18)
2-03. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: III. Adagio (02:42)
2-04. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: IV. Allegro (04:31)
2-05. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: I. Largo (05:38)
2-06. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: II. Allegro (04:34)
2-07. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: III. Adagio (03:04)
2-08. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: IV. Vivace (02:41)
2-09. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: I. Allegro (03:23)
2-10. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: II. Largo (01:42)
2-11. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: III. Allegro (04:30)
2-12. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: IV. Adagio (03:03)
2-13. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: V. Allegro (03:18)
2-14. Giulia Nuti, Chiara Zanisi – Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019a: I. Cantabile ma un poco adagio (06:13)