Since winning the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow in 1986, Mario Brunello has established himself as one of the foremost living cellists. An eclectic musician, for some years Brunello has also taken an interest in the world of historically informed performance practice and the rediscovery of the four-string 'violoncello piccolo'. This instrument, slightly smaller than the cello, is known today for its presence in some sacred cantatas of Bach, but it was surely used much more widely in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries than the currently known repertory would lead us to think. This recording of the 'Sonate & partite per violino solo' inaugurates the collaboration on the Arcana label with a 'Bach Brunello Series' of three CDs, in which important compositions for the violin from his catalogue will be performed on the violoncello piccolo. The booklet includes texts by Bach scholar Peter Wollny and Italian writer Alessandro Baricco.
Disc 1:
1) I. Adagio ()
2) II. Fuga (Allegro) ()
3) III. Siciliana ()
4) IV. Presto ()
5) I. Allemanda - Double ()
6) II. Corrente - Double (Presto) ()
7) III. Sarabande - Double ()
8) IV. Tempo Di Borea - Double ()
9) I. Grave ()
10) II. Fuga ()
11) III. Andante ()
12) IV. Allegro ()
Disc 2:
1) I. Allemanda ()
2) II. Corrente ()
3) III. Sarabanda ()
4) IV. Giga ()
5) V. Ciaccona ()
6) I. Adagio ()
7) II. Fuga ()
8) III. Largo ()
9) IV. Allegro Assai ()
10) I. Preludio ()
11) II. Loure ()
12) III. Gavotte En Rondeau ()
13) IV. Menuet I ()
14) V. Menuet II ()
15) VI. Bourrée ()
16) VII. Gigue ()