Sauli: Sei partite per mandolino solo

Featuring

Davide Rebuffa
Rosanna Turone
Filippo Sauli

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Instruments

This recording uses two rare, playable 17th and 18th-century four-course mandolins from a private collection, strung with historically reconstructed gut strings.

Composition History

Filippo Sauli's Six Partitas for solo mandolin represent a significant shift in the Baroque mandolin repertoire, moving beyond simple dances to more extended musical forms.

Recording & Production

This album is the first complete recording of Filippo Sauli's Six Partitas for solo mandolin, performed on period instruments with historical performance practice.

Compositional Technique

Sauli's Partitas use an unusual 'scordatura' (non-standard tuning) for the mandolin, lowering the fourth course from E to F, which is unique in Italian solo Baroque mandolin literature.

Composer Biography

Filippo Sauli, the composer, was a theorbist of Florentine origin who worked at the Habsburg court in Vienna during the early 18th century.

Performer Biography

Davide Rebuffa, the performer, is a multi-instrumentalist and researcher who has founded several early music ensembles and co-founded the Early Mandolin Academy.

Historical Context

The mandolino used in the 17th and early 18th century was played with finger-style technique, not a plectrum, which was only introduced later with the 'Neapolitan' mandolin.