Boccherini's Dream

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This is a thoughtful program, providing variety within a broadly cohesive stylistic milieu, and the performances are polished and refined. Yamahiro-Brinkmann and Martello play comfortably together... — Fanfare, July/August 2023 More…

Release Date: 17th Mar 2023
Catalogue No: ARC22037
Label: Arcantus Musikproduktion
Length: 73 minutes

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Supriani: Toccata decima

Work length2:00

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Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann

Boccherini: Cello Sonata in C major, G17

Work length12:52

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Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann, Mariangiola Martello

I. Allegro

Track length6:31

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II. Largo assai

Track length3:03

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III. Rondo allegro

Track length3:18

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Pasquini, B: Partite diversi di follia

Work length6:53

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Mariangiola Martello

Supriani: Toccata prima in G major for cello solo

Work length2:04

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Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann

Cabezón, A: Diferencias sobre el Cantodel Caballero

Work length3:46

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Mariangiola Martello

Boccherini: Cello Sonata in G major, G5

Work length13:15

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Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann, Mariangiola Martello

I. Largo

Track length2:40

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II. Allegro alla Militaire

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III. Menuetto

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Storace, B: Passagagli sopra Alamire

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Mariangiola Martello

Supriani: Toccata XI

Work length2:08

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Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann

Cabezón, A: Pavana con su glosa

Work length2:27

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Mariangiola Martello

Supriani: Toccata quarta

Work length1:44

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Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann

Boccherini: Cello Sonata in C major, G6

Work length17:14

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Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann, Mariangiola Martello

I. Allegro

Track length5:00

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II. Largo

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III. Allegro moderato

Track length6:48

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This new release from arcantus presents selected works for Cello and Piano by Boccherini and his contemporaries. The works are performed here by cellist Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann, and pianist Mariangiola Martello.

Boccherini's Dream transports us to scenes of summer sunshine, where balmy breezes warm sun-kissed faces. This was a world that Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) knew and loved. He was born in the cosy Tuscan city of Lucca, and it was here his great talent as a cellist began to show.

Of the three Boccherini Sonatas for cello and harpsichord presented in this collection, two were published in his lifetime, while the third, the C major Sonata, G.17, was circulated in copies based on the original manuscript copy (Lennoxlove, Scotland).

The dynamism of Sonata G.17 can be felt in its rhythm and pulse that makes the listener move and smile as heart and soul are effused with joy. The G major Sonata, G.5, was published in 1772, when Boccherini was 29 years old. The fervent beauty drawn out from strings and bow in its Largo movement seems to reach towards the ineffable.

The atmosphere of the final Sonata of the collection, Sonata in C major, G.6, also published in 1772, reverts to the magical essence of Boccherini, the buoyant, energetic, optimist.

A playful energy can be felt Francesco Paolo Supriani's four Toccatas for solo cello. In Italian the verb 'toccare' means 'to touch', and the physicality of these four miniatures is palpable. They show how lightly and swiftly the hands can move across the fingerboard in harmony with delicate bow strokes.

The solo keyboard works in this collection are performed on the harpsichord. The Renaissance musical soundscape familiar to the Spaniard Antonio de Cabezn (1510-1566) laid the foundations for sounds that Supriani and Boccherini would hear two hundred years later. The "Diferencias" is an imaginative set of variations that begins with a unison statement of the theme. Cabezn's "Pavana con su glosa", published in 1557, conjures up the elegant and colourful procession of this immensely popular stylish courtly dance.

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July/August 2023

This is a thoughtful program, providing variety within a broadly cohesive stylistic milieu, and the performances are polished and refined. Yamahiro-Brinkmann and Martello play comfortably together and the solo pieces offer opportunities for them to shine individually.

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