Giovanni Battista Costanzi: Cello Symphonies

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[Sollima] is a consummate performer-acrobat, whose fiery physicality no dizzying speed nor vaulting elaboration can challenge…if the G major is a gem of Corellian civility, flecked with Sollima’s... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Apr 2017
Catalogue No: GCD923802
Label: Glossa
Length: 64 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

July 2017

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Costanzi: Sinfonia in D Major for Cello & Basso continuo

Work length9:51

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Giovanni Sollima (cello)
Arianna Art Ensemble
Recorded: April 2016 / January 2017
Recording Venue: Gratteri, Chiesa di Santa Maria di Gesù / Sala Maffeiana, Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy

Sinfonia in D Major for Cello & Basso continuo: I. Adagio staccato

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Sinfonia in D Major for Cello & Basso continuo: II. Allegro

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Sinfonia in D Major for Cello & Basso continuo: III. Amoroso

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Sinfonia in D Major for Cello & Basso continuo: IV. Minuetto amoroso

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Costanzi: Sinfonia in B-Flat Major for Cello & Basso continuo

Work length14:17

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Giovanni Sollima (cello)
Arianna Art Ensemble
Recorded: April 2016 / January 2017
Recording Venue: Gratteri, Chiesa di Santa Maria di Gesù / Sala Maffeiana, Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy

Sinfonia in B-Flat Major for Cello & Basso continuo: I. Adagio

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Sinfonia in B-Flat Major for Cello & Basso continuo: II. Spiritoso

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Sinfonia in B-Flat Major for Cello & Basso continuo: III. Sarabanda (Amoroso)

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Sinfonia in B-Flat Major for Cello & Basso continuo: IV. Minuet

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Costanzi: Sonata da camera for 2 Cellos in F Major

Work length4:30

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Giovanni Sollima (cello), Monika Leskovar (cello), Gianluca Ubaldi (timpani)
Recorded: April 2016 / January 2017
Recording Venue: Gratteri, Chiesa di Santa Maria di Gesù / Sala Maffeiana, Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy

Sonata da camera for 2 Cellos in F Major: I. Amoroso - Allegro assai - Amoroso

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Sonata da camera for 2 Cellos in F Major: II. Adagio

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Sonata da camera for 2 Cellos in F Major: III. Presto

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Costanzi: Sinfonia in G Major for Cello & Basso continuo

Work length7:07

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Giovanni Sollima (cello)
Arianna Art Ensemble
Recorded: April 2016 / January 2017
Recording Venue: Gratteri, Chiesa di Santa Maria di Gesù / Sala Maffeiana, Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy

Sinfonia in G Major for Cello & Basso continuo: I. Grave

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Sinfonia in G Major for Cello & Basso continuo: II. Allegro

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Sinfonia in G Major for Cello & Basso continuo: III. Minuè

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Costanzi: Sinfonia in E-Flat Major for Cello & Basso continuo

Work length7:20

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Giovanni Sollima (cello)
Arianna Art Ensemble
Recorded: April 2016 / January 2017
Recording Venue: Gratteri, Chiesa di Santa Maria di Gesù / Sala Maffeiana, Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy

Sinfonia in E-Flat Major for Cello & Basso continuo: I. Adagio

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Sinfonia in E-Flat Major for Cello & Basso continuo: II. Allegro

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Sinfonia in E-Flat Major for Cello & Basso continuo: III. Minuet

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Sollima: The Hunting Sonata

Work length10:51

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Giovanni Sollima (cello), Monika Leskovar (cello), Gianluca Ubaldi (tamburello)
Recorded: April 2016 / January 2017
Recording Venue: Gratteri, Chiesa di Santa Maria di Gesù / Sala Maffeiana, Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy

The Hunting Sonata: I. Adagio - Allegro

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The Hunting Sonata: II. Siciliana

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The Hunting Sonata: III. Giga

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Costanzi: Sinfonia in C Major for Cello & Basso continuo

Work length10:59

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Giovanni Sollima (cello)
Arianna Art Ensemble
Recorded: April 2016 / January 2017
Recording Venue: Gratteri, Chiesa di Santa Maria di Gesù / Sala Maffeiana, Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy

Sinfonia in C Major for Cello & Basso continuo: I. Grave

Track length2:17

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Sinfonia in C Major for Cello & Basso continuo: II. Allegro

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Sinfonia in C Major for Cello & Basso continuo: III. Variazioni (Allegro)

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With one album of cello sonatas by Giovanni Battista Costanzi behind him, Giovanni Sollima has decided to provide further proof of how Costanzi has hitherto been a woefully neglected but exciting compositional voice from that nebulous period between Baroque and Classical. With this new release of Sinfonie per violoncello from Glossa, Sollima demonstrates once more the melodic inventiveness and harmonic liberty to which Costanzi was given together with a virtuoso's capacity to relish the technical demands imposed by a Roman musician who was clearly also a star player on the instrument himself. Together with the Arianna Art Ensemble Sollima has recorded five sinfonias for clelo and contiuo, and a sonata for two cellos by Costanzi where he is joined once again by Monka Leskovar. If the four-movement sonata da chiesa structure favored by Corelli is still apparent in some of these sinfonias, there is a greater openess to the galante style and influences coming from elsewhere in Europe and from across Italy, for all that Costanzi may have no ventured far outside the Eternal City. A new composition by Sollima himself - another cellist-composer - takes off from Costanzi's almost programmatic Sonata for two cellos, "ad uso di corni da caccia".

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July 2017

[Sollima] is a consummate performer-acrobat, whose fiery physicality no dizzying speed nor vaulting elaboration can challenge…if the G major is a gem of Corellian civility, flecked with Sollima’s mischievous wit, the E flat is a perfect encapsulation of stylistic transition, veering temperamentally off-piste, while the C major exudes sublimated grandeur…[Sollima takes] a fearless, mercurial approach

June 2017

While we still get plenty of the muscular panache and slightly rough-edged abandon that Sollima and his 1769 Ruggieri cello brought so enjoyably to the sonatas, we’re also treated to an abundance of warmly resonant, strong-toned singing lines, their delectability heightened by the barely-tamed-lion quality Sollima brings to them

Giovanni Battista Costanzi: Cello Symphonies

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