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Giovanni Sollima, Federico Guglielmo & Il pomo d’oro – Al-Bunduqiyya – The Lost Concerto (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:22 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
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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.”
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Giovanni Sollima & Andrea Noferini – Offenbach: Complete Duos for 2 Cellos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 07:35:00 minutes | 4,53 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
Years before he took Paris by storm as a brilliantly witty composer of operettas, Offenbach was celebrated across Europe as a virtuoso cellist. It is this lesser-known aspect of his creative personality that is explored by Giovanni Sollima and Andrea Noferini, who have spent years immersing themselves in the technically intricate but always lyrical and extrovert pieces which Offenbach wrote for his instrument.
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Giovanni Sollima, Orchestra Filarmonica Della Calabria & Filippo Arlia – Elgar: Cello Concerto, Enigma Variations (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:43 minutes | 681 MB | Genre: Classical
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From Arturo Toscanini and Sir John Barbirolli to Riccardo Muti and Antonio Pappano in our own time, Italian-heritage performers have often brought special qualities of sympathy and understanding to Edward Elgar’s (1857-1934) music. Now comes a new recording made in the ‘boot’ of southern Italy, lending Mediterranean warmth and passion to a trio of Elgarian masterpieces.
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Giovanni Sollima – Onyricon (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:08 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Giovanni Sollima (born 24 October 1962 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy) is an Italian composer and cellist. He was born into a family of musicians and studied cello with Giovanni Perriera and composition with his father, Eliodoro Sollima, at the Conservatorio di Palermo, where he graduated with highest honors. He later studied with Antonio Janigro and Milko Kelemen at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg.
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Chiara Zanisi & Giovanni Sollima – The Lady from the Sea: Duos for Violin and Cello from Vivaldi to Sollima (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:20 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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After calling it ‘a wonderful album in all respects’, the magazine Diapason concluded its review of “Suite Case. Violin Duos from Vivaldi to Sollima” with the question, ‘When can we look forward to the second volume?’ In this new project, the violin of Stefano Barneschi gives way to the cello of Giovanni Sollima, the multi-talented musician from Palermo featured here not only as a composer. On this new journey, again beginning with Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Sollima and Chiara Zanisi travel between early and modern music, between classical and folk (the Old Scots Tunes of Francesco Barsanti), with two previously unrecorded gems by the Roman composer Giovanni Battista Costanzi. The entire recording is punctuated by tracks taken from Suite Case, a cycle composed especially by Sollima for this project.
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