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Francesca Boncompagni, Accademia Ottoboni, Marco Ceccato – Lulier: Cantate e sonate (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:15 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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In Rome between the late seventeenth century and the early eighteenth, academies and ‘conversazioni’ (artistic gatherings) organised by aristocrats and cardinals attracted the leading writers and musicians. The names of Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti and the young G. F. Handel stand out among many others. Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier (Rome, c.1660-1700), a cellist and composer known as ‘Giovanni del Violone’, participated in this intensive musical activity. […] When he entered the entourage of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, in 1690, Lulier already had a decade of compositional activity behind him in the genres of oratorio, opera and above all the chamber cantata. Originally consisting of a succession of strophic arias, the cantata gradually established itself as a poetic and musical genre characterised by alternating recitatives and arias. […] As is well known, the conversazioni of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries also included the performance of instrumental music.
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Accademia Ottoboni – Light and Darkness – C.P.E. Bach: Flute Sonatas (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:05 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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Manuel Granatiero presents his first solo album, following several successful concerto recordings with Amandine Beyer’s Gli Incogniti and Accademia Ottoboni, of which he is a founding member. Here, Manuel is joined by Yu Yashima and Marco Ceccato, as he turns his attention to the flute music of C.P.E. Bach. The outcome of this project is ‘Light and Darkness’, five sonatas chosen from the substantial oeuvre that the composer dedicated to this instrument. In addition to the famous sonata for solo flute, the programme includes two sonatas with harpsichord obbligato and two sonatas with basso continuo. Demonstrating a wealth of stylistic and writing variety, they represent the entirety of the period in which Bach composed his surviving flute sonatas: BWV1020 written in his youth at his father’s house in Leipzig, Wq124 written during his early years of study in Frankfurt, Wq128 and Wq132 during his service at the court of Frederick II, and Wq83 during his mature years in Hamburg. This is therefore a miniature exploration of the universe of the ‘Berlin Bach’ through some of his most intimate works that encourage us to experience the most diverse human emotions, from the darkest to the brightest ones.
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Marco Ceccato, Accademia Ottoboni – Vivaldi: Cello Sonatas (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:15:09 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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Vivaldi’s Opus 14 Sonatas are part of the cello’s ‘great repertoire and also some of the works from the last years of the ‘Red Priest’. Quite simply – and regardless of Igor Stravinsky’s curiously rash judgement regarding Vivaldi’s work –, these sonatas are splendid, making this instrument sound as only a composer who is an experienced virtuoso instrumentalist himself – in this case, a violinist – can do.
Marco Ceccato is one of the members most often noticed of Amandine Beyer’s ensemble, Gli Ingogniti, (‘…Cellist Marco Ceccato is equally impressive,’ Gramophone, March 2013). Zig Zag Territoires wanted to devote this recording to him, convinced of his great talent and of the singularity of his sound imagination.
Accademia Ottoboni – Boccherini: Cello Concerto, G. 480, Quintets, G. 451 & 436 & Sextet, G. 463 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:03:51 minutes | 1020 MB | Genre: Classical
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This recording follows a first collaboration between Zig-Zag Territoires and Marco Ceccato (Vivaldi sonatas), widely hailed by the press. It is devoted to two important aspects of Luigi Bocherini’s work: chamber music and the cello, of which he was a great virtuoso.
The two quintets and the divertimento feature the combination of the string quartet – of which Boccherini was, in a way, the co-founder with Haydn – sometimes with the guitar, sometimes with the flute having place of honour, and always with a delightful use of those instruments’ sound capabilities. And, of course, the cello is then to the fore in the Concerto in G major, a summary of virtuosity and lyricism.
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