Bartolucci: Chamber Music

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Brilliant Classics and a band of musicians have now put together a well-recorded Bartolucci introduction...These works are enough to make us at least curious about his music for larger-scale... — MusicWeb International, November 2018 More…

Release Date: 6th Oct 2017
Catalogue No: 95451
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 72 minutes

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Bartolucci: Trio in A Major

Work length27:46

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Giacomo Scarponi (violin), Ivo Scarponi (cello), Marco Venturi (piano)
Recorded: September 2016
Recording Venue: Sala Accademica del Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra, Rome, Italy

Trio in A Major: I. Allegro moderato

Track length8:59

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Trio in A Major: II. Canzone: Andante mosso

Track length9:51

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Trio in A Major: III. Scherzo

Track length2:16

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Trio in A Major: IV. Rondò

Track length6:40

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Bartolucci: Prelude, Intermezzo and Fugue in A minor

Work length8:00

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Giacomo Scarponi (violin), Ivo Scarponi (cello)
Recorded: September 2016
Recording Venue: Sala Accademica del Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra, Rome, Italy

Prelude, Intermezzo and Fugue in A Minor: I. Preludio - Mosso ma non troppo

Track length2:14

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Prelude, Intermezzo and Fugue in A Minor: II. Intermezzo - Moderato

Track length2:56

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Prelude, Intermezzo and Fugue in A Minor: III. Fuga - Mosso con brio

Track length2:50

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Bartolucci: Prelude, Intermezzo and Fugue in C minor

Work length8:20

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Luca Venturi (violin), Angelo Cicillini (viola), Ivo Scarponi (cello)
Recorded: September 2016
Recording Venue: Sala Accademica del Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra, Rome, Italy

Prelude, Intermezzo and Fugue in C Minor: I. Preludio - Andante comodo

Track length2:50

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Prelude, Intermezzo and Fugue in C Minor: II. Intermezzo - Moderato

Track length3:02

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Prelude, Intermezzo and Fugue in C Minor: III. Fuga - Moderato poco mosso

Track length2:28

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Bartolucci: Violin Sonata in G major

Work length28:35

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Luca Venturi (violin), Marco Venturi (piano)
Recorded: September 2016
Recording Venue: Sala Accademica del Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra, Rome, Italy

Violin Sonata in G Major: I. Allegro moderato

Track length8:08

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Violin Sonata in G Major: II. Andante sostenuto

Track length9:39

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Violin Sonata in G Major: III. Vivo e vigoroso

Track length4:14

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Violin Sonata in G Major: IV. Allegro con brio

Track length6:34

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Domenico Bartolucci was in some ways a 20th‐century descendant of the liturgical musicians who composed for the church – and especially the Catholic church in Italy – during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Born in 1917, he was appointed Master of Music at the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, but he also taught at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Most of his considerable output was, naturally, sacred in form and purpose: not only motets and mass settings but symphonic oratorios and even a sacred opera based on the life of the painter Brunelleschi. He was appointed a cardinal in 2010 and died in 2013.

Very little of his music has been recorded. Here, however, is a new studio recording of his chamber music, made in the Pontifical Institute for Sacred Music in Rome. The genre of Prelude, Intermezzo and Fugue implies a keyboard work of the type written by Bach or Franck; here, however, are two examples scored for violin/cello duet and for string trio, both demonstrating Bartolucci’s considerable mastery of counterpoint. They are joined by a Piano Trio with a lovely second‐movement Canzone, and a Violin Sonata of engaging richness: there are moments of great passion in the first movement, of elegiac delicacy in the slow movement, grotesque elements in the third movement, and a luminous fluidity reminiscent of Mozart in the finale.

The language itself is comparatively conservative – as one would expect from his training and position, Bartolucci was no modernist – but also melodically appealing, and always sympathetically written for his forces. The instrumentalists recorded here have been performing Bartolucci’s music for over two decades: they are uniquely authoritative interpreters of an idiom that prizes beauty above all things.

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November 2018

Brilliant Classics and a band of musicians have now put together a well-recorded Bartolucci introduction...These works are enough to make us at least curious about his music for larger-scale forces.

Bartolucci: Chamber Music

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