Tartini: Concerti e Sonate per Violoncello Piccolo

Featuring

Mario Brunello
Riccardo Doni
Accademia dell'Annunciata
Antonio Vandini
Giuseppe Tartini
Giulio Meneghini

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Composer Biography

Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770), a virtuoso violinist, composer, theorist, and teacher, was a significant cultural figure in the European musical world of the mid-18th century.

Interpretation

Mario Brunello has pioneered the revival of the violoncello piccolo, an instrument popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, as part of his interest in historically-informed performance.

Performer Biography

Mario Brunello, the cellist on this recording, was the first and only Italian to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1986.

Instruments

The cello concertos on this album were intended for the violoncello piccolo, a slightly smaller instrument than the modern cello, which was often called a 'viola' in 18th-century sources.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Tartini's aesthetic ideals and research into the physical and acoustical foundations of harmony influenced the musical thought of subsequent generations.

Composer Biography

Antonio Vandini (c.1690-1778), a cello virtuoso and Franciscan friar, was trained in Bologna, a city known as the cradle of the Italian cello school.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Tartini considered popular tradition as 'Nature' and believed that studying folk dances and melodies taught him how to execute embellishments and rhythmic subdivisions.