Luigi Gatti: Three Concertos

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Release Date: 15th Nov 2010
Catalogue No: 94146
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 69 minutes

Gatti, L: Concertone in D Major, L7e.1

Work length23:50

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$6.50

Paolo Ghidoni (violin), Rita Mascagna (violin), Pietro Bosna (cello)
Orchestra dei Ducati
Fausto Pedretti
Recorded: 22 December 2008
Recording Venue: Mantua Cathedral, Lombardy, Italy

I. Maestoso con brio

Track length9:39

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$2.60

II. Larghetto espressivo

Track length8:23

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III. Allegro con brio

Track length5:48

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$1.30

Gatti, L: Bassoon Concerto in F Major, L7e.4

Work length19:11

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$6.45

Stefano Canuti (bassoon)
Orchestra da Camera del Conservatorio di Mantova
Fausto Pedretti
Recorded: 04 July 2009
Recording Venue: Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Lombardy, Italy

I. Allegro spiritoso

Track length10:03

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$3.85

II. Romance: Adagio sostenuto

Track length6:04

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III. Allegro assai

Track length3:04

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$1.30

Gatti, L: Piano Concerto in C Major, L7e.5

Work length26:15

$6.00

$7.75

Andrea Dembech (piano)
Orchestra da Camera del Conservatorio di Mantova
Luca Bertazzi
Recorded: 01 September 2009
Recording Venue: Teatro Bibiena, Mantua, Lombardy, Italy

I. Allegro con spirito

Track length11:48

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II. Alla romance: Andante larghetto

Track length8:12

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$2.60

III. Rondo: Allegro

Track length6:15

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$1.30

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Not the conductor Daniele Gatti (though he has been known to compose), or indeed the great Gatti-Casazza, moonlighting from his wheeling and dealing around La Scala: but Luigi Gatti, 1740-1817: a long-lived, prolific, almost completely unknown Classical figure whose name is largely remembered, if at all, for its tangential appearance in Mozart's life and letters. Leopold and Wolfgang first bumped into Gatti in Mantua, in 1770, by which time he was already a respected Abbé, ordained and in charge of music and musicians. But it was when Gatti snared the post of Kapellmeister at Salzbug Cathedral that he crossed the family; for Leopold had coveted the job for himself, and indeed had no mean claim to it, but the city's Prince Archbishop would not hear of it, and indeed demonstrated his distaste for the Mozart family in perpetuity by relieving Wolfgang of his responsibilities as a court and church composer -- and the much-needed salary that went with them - with (according to the family correspondence) 'a kick up the a**e'.

So, Gatti: Here are three delightful Classical concertos, in period-instrument performances, made live in Mantua and Milan. The scores have been dusted off and freshly edited, and reveal a musical voice not circumscribed by time or place: he adjusted to the new, more complex, post-Classical style led by Hummel in the decades after Mozart's death, as the Piano Concerto shows.

Luigi Gatti: Three Concertos

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