Il Suonar Parlante Orchestra, Vittorio Ghielmi – Gypsy Baroque (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Il Suonar Parlante Orchestra, Vittorio Ghielmi – Gypsy Baroque (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:56 minutes | 619 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Vittorio Ghielmi, one of today’s most admired viola da gamba soloists, comes from a family of musicians (his brother founded Il Giardino Armonico with Giovanni Antonini). In parallel with his erudite and virtuoso readings of Marais or Graun, Vittorio Ghielmi is an artist who enjoys crossing borders. With his ensemble, Il Suonar Parlante, he seeks new musical languages and collaborates with leading figures of jazz (Uri Caine) and the masters of traditional music (Khaled Arman, Dhruba Ghosh). With “Gypsy Baroque”, he and his gypsy friends present a dazzling album bubbling over with life. He has gone to Transylvania in search of the gypsy music of the eighteenth century that was played on the frontiers of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires – music that influenced composers like Mozart and Haydn for their famous ‘Janissary’ pieces. For this recording, he places these gypsy tunes (only the melody is written) in perspective with orchestrations of the period. The Baroque specialists of his ensemble are joined by longstanding guest artists (the soprano Graciela Gibelli and the recorder player Dorothee Oberlinger) and traditional musicians like the Slovak violinist Stanislav Palúch and Marcel Comendant, a virtuoso exponent of the cimbalom and of improvisation. Going beyond the ‘documentary’ aspect, already fascinating, here is a genuine musical recreation!

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Vittorio Ghielmi – Le secret de Monsieur Marais (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Vittorio Ghielmi – Le secret de Monsieur Marais (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:38 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Between 1680 and 1728, Marin Marais brought the ‘pièce de viole’ to the peak of perfection. An ‘unremitting’ teacher, he was also the publisher of his own music and invented special signs to notate certain ornaments for the viol. In the course of his research at the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Italian gambist Vittorio Ghielmi studied these manuscript codes, in the hand of Marais himself or his direct students. ‘This led me to a new vision of French Baroque music, which applies not only to the viola da gamba, but also to vocal and orchestral music. These signs reveal the technique of playing in action. Contrary to the static descriptions of the treatises of the time, one has the impression of seeing didactic “videos”’.

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Vittorio Ghielmi – Forqueray Le Diable – Complete Pieces de Viole (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Vittorio Ghielmi – Forqueray Le Diable – Complete Pieces de Viole (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:20 minutes | 688 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Passacaille

About the less than 40 extant compositions of father Antoine Forqueray (1672-1745) and his son Jean-Baptiste Antoine (1699-1782), scholars remain divided as to whom proper attribution belongs. One thing however, is certain: their music is of outstanding quality. Few others understood so well the expressive possibilities of the 7-string viol. The Forquerays, like all great artists, carry their music to the limit and explore all its facets. This is music that is, like all truly great music, completely “different”; an incomparable legacy dedicated to the expressivity of the viola da gamba.

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