5* REVIEWS on BBC Music Magazine for NEW RELEASE ‘ BACH: 6 Suonate à cembalo certato è violoncello piccolo solo (BWV 1014-1019)
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
SEI SUONATE À CEMBALO CERTATO È VIOLONCELLO PICCOLO SOLO
Mario Brunello, violoncello piccolo
Francesco Galligioni, viola da gamba and cello
Roberto Loreggian, harspichord and organ
Release date 10th September 2021
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Available as CD and DIGITAL: here
5* REVIEWS – BBC Music Magazine (Dec. 2021)
By Kate Bolton-Porciatti
“This recording explores the sonorities of the four-string Baroque instrument known as the ‘violoncello piccolo’ – a ‘small cello’ that is in fact tuned like a violin but an octave lower. We have largely to thank Italian cellist Mario Brunello for bringing this neglected but eloquent instrument back into the limelight in recent times.
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For the repertoire on this disc, he turns to Bach’s Six Sonatas BWV 1014-1019, originally for violin and continuo. Setting them in the tradition of the Italian trio sonata, Brunello and continuo players Roberto Loreggian (harpsichord and positive organ) and Francesco Galligioni (cello and viola da gamba) converse in the language of the most intimate chamber music.
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Notable here are the infinitely varied timbres and textures of the ensemble: close-placed microphones highlight the contrasts of bowed and plucked strings, of legato and pizzicato effects; […] Throughout, one wallows in a kaleidoscope of colours that emphasise the busy intricacy of Bach’s tapestries“