Barbarian Beauty: Concertos for Viola da Gamba Mayumi Hirasaki, Vittorio Ghielmi & Marcel Comendant

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Album-Release:
2011

HRA-Release:
19.02.2020

Label: Passacaille

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

Artist: Mayumi Hirasaki, Vittorio Ghielmi & Marcel Comendant

Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Carl Heinrich Graun (1704-1759), Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

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  • Anonymous:
  • 1Concerto in A Minor for Recorder, Viola da Gamba and Orchestra, TWV 5_a1: Marcel's Praeludium00:43
  • Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767): Concerto in A Minor for Recorder, Viola da Gamba and Orchestra, TWV 52_a1:
  • 2Concerto in A Minor for Recorder, Viola da Gamba and Orchestra, TWV 52_a1: Grave03:36
  • 3Concerto in A Minor for Recorder, Viola da Gamba and Orchestra, TWV 52_a1: Allegro04:04
  • 4Concerto in A Minor for Recorder, Viola da Gamba and Orchestra, TWV 5_a1: Dolce02:54
  • 5Concerto in A Minor for Recorder, Viola da Gamba and Orchestra, TWV 52_a1: Allegro (finale) (2)04:00
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  • 6Concerto in A Minor for Recorder, Viola da Gamba and Orchestra, TWV 52_a1: Marcel's Postludium00:50
  • Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703 - 1771): Concerto in D Major for Viola da Gamba and Orchestra:
  • 7Concerto in D Major for Viola da Gamba and Orchestra: Allegro, Ma non tanto06:27
  • 8Concerto in D Major for Viola da Gamba and Orchestra: Largo06:35
  • 9Concerto in D Major for Viola da Gamba and Orchestra: Allegro06:21
  • Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741): Concerto in A Major for Violin, "Violoncello all'Inglese" and Orchestra, RV 546:
  • 10Concerto in A Major for Violin, "Violoncello all'Inglese" and Orchestra, RV 546: Allegro03:14
  • 11Concerto in A Major for Violin, "Violoncello all'Inglese" and Orchestra, RV 546: Andante03:18
  • 12Concerto in A Major for Violin, "Violoncello all'Inglese" and Orchestra, RV 546: Allegro (finale) (2)02:53
  • Giuseppe Tartini (1692 - 1770): Concerto in A Major No. 87 for Viola da Gamba and Orchestra:
  • 13Concerto in A Major No. 87 for Viola da Gamba and Orchestra: Allegro05:23
  • 14Concerto in A Major No. 87 for Viola da Gamba and Orchestra: Larghetto02:37
  • 15Concerto in A Major No. 87 for Viola da Gamba and Orchestra: Allegro Assai04:04
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  • 16Concerto in A Major No. 87 for Viola da Gamba and Orchestra: Marcel's farewell00:40
  • Total Runtime57:39

Info for Barbarian Beauty: Concertos for Viola da Gamba



Vittorio Ghielmi is known for the intensity and versatility of his musical interpretations and for his new approach to the viola da gamba and the sound of the early music repertoire. His ensemble, Il Suonar Parlante, is devoted to investigating early music repertoire and has also performed with jazz, flamenco and traditional Asian musicians.

"All in all, this is definitely a highly interesting album. The quality of the music is beyond doubt, and the concerto by Graun is recorded here for the first time - according to Ghielmi. It also raises various questions in regard to the style of performance and scoring. That in itself is not a bad thing. Unfortunately the performances are only partially convincing and musically satisfying. Whose idea was it to print the track-list in blue on a black background? Weren't we supposed to read it?" (Johan van Veen, musicweb-international)

Dorothee Oberlinger, recorder
Mayumi Hirasaki, violin
Marcel Comendant, cymbalon
Vittorio Ghielmi, viola da gamba, direction
Il Suonar Parlante Orchestra
Vittorio Ghielmi, conductor



Vittorio Ghielmi
is best known as one of the finest viola da gamba players of his time, but he is a multifaceted musician of rare talent, as well.

As the founder of the ensemble Il Suonar Parlante, he has explored not only early music but also jazz and popular music; as one of the most respected gambists in the world, he is co-author of a book on viol performance and music professor at the Conservatorio Luca Marenzio in Brescia, Italy.

In addition, Ghielmi regularly performs duet repertory with his brother, keyboardist Lorenzo Ghielmi and with lutenist Luca Pianca. Ghielmi’s major reportorial activity has been in the Baroque period, with particular focus on the works J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, and Monteverdi. But Ghielmi, who is also a conductor, has performed contemporary serious works, too, such as Kevin Volans’ Matepe and White Man Sleeps, modern compositions both utilizing the viola da gamba.

Ghielmi has made numerous recordings for a variety of labels, including Decca, Teldec, Auvidis, Supraphon, Harmonia Mundi, and Winter & Winter.

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