Costanzi: Cello Sonatas

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Master of the Choir at St Peter’s, Rome in the 18th Century, little of Constanzi’s work is recorded. The stylish performances accompanied by excellent programme notes make this a worthwhile recording. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Apr 2016
Catalogue No: GCD923801
Label: Glossa
Length: 72 minutes

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Costanzi: Cello Sonata in G major

Work length10:05

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Giovanni Sollima (cello)
Arianna Art Ensemble
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro delle Voci Studios, Treviso, Italy

I. Largo

Track length2:15

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II. Allegro

Track length2:29

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III. Largo

Track length3:20

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IV. Allegro

Track length2:01

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Costanzi: Cello Sonata in C minor

Work length10:14

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Giovanni Sollima (cello)
Arianna Art Ensemble
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro delle Voci Studios, Treviso, Italy

I. Adagio

Track length3:45

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II. Allegro

Track length2:32

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III. Grave

Track length2:32

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IV. Capricio: Allegro assai

Track length1:25

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Costanzi: Sonata for 2 Cellos in F Major

Work length7:00

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Giovanni Sollima (cello), Monika Leskovar (cello)
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro delle Voci Studios, Treviso, Italy

I. Grazioso

Track length1:52

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II. Allegro

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III. Alla francese

Track length3:27

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Costanzi: Cello Sonata in B flat major

Work length7:52

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Giovanni Sollima (cello)
Arianna Art Ensemble
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro delle Voci Studios, Treviso, Italy

I. Andante

Track length3:28

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II. Allegro

Track length2:17

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III. Giga: Allegro

Track length2:07

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Costanzi: Cello Sonata in F major

Work length6:40

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Giovanni Sollima (cello)
Arianna Art Ensemble
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro delle Voci Studios, Treviso, Italy

I. Adagio

Track length1:02

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II. Allegro

Track length2:58

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III. Grazioso - Andante - Grazioso - Andante

Track length2:40

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Costanzi: Cello Sonata in G minor

Work length12:35

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Giovanni Sollima (cello)
Arianna Art Ensemble
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro delle Voci Studios, Treviso, Italy

I. Cantabile

Track length5:31

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II. Allegro

Track length3:55

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III. Presto

Track length3:09

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Costanzi: Sonata for 2 Cellos in C Major

Work length5:47

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Giovanni Sollima (cello), Monika Leskovar (cello)
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro delle Voci Studios, Treviso, Italy

I. Vivace

Track length2:07

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II. Amoroso

Track length1:22

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III. Allegro assai

Track length2:18

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Sollima: Il mandataro

Work length12:35

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Giovanni Sollima (cello)
Arianna Art Ensemble
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro delle Voci Studios, Treviso, Italy

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The inspired decision by cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima to investigate the instrumental music of his 18th-century counterpart, Giovanni Battista Costanzi, is yielding its first recording with a new Glossa release of cello sonatas. Costanzi’s place in the history of the cello has all but slipped from view and yet his solo cello sonatas display a remarkable freshness in handling the late Baroque sonata genre as instigated by Arcangelo Corelli. They also impose substantial technical demands upon the soloist – including playing in the instrument’s highest register – making powerful use of the cello’s expressive capabilities. Five sonatas scored for cello and continuo have been selected by Giovanni Sollima for this recording, the first to assess this aspect of the Roman composer’s output. Not content with attending to Costanzi’s works Giovanni Sollima composes one of his own – Il mandataro – which reflects the labours of an apparently marginal member of the Roman court in the time of Costanzi’s patron, Cardinal Ottoboni: a courier or messenger charged with keeping the musicians informed of their duties. Sollima, who has previously recorded Neapolitan cello concertos for Glossa (backed by Antonio Florio and I Turchini), is joined for this new recording by fellow cellist Monika Leskovar (a pair of the sonatas are for two cellos) and the Arianna Art Ensemble. Scholar Imma Battista supplies pertinent biographical information for this overlooked Baroque composer.

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October 2016

Master of the Choir at St Peter’s, Rome in the 18th Century, little of Constanzi’s work is recorded. The stylish performances accompanied by excellent programme notes make this a worthwhile recording.

July 2016

Constanzi clearly wasn’t known as ‘John of the Cello’ for nothing, because the stylistic and virtuosic variety is extraordinary to the point of feeling experimental…the tone produced by Sollima on his 18th-century Venetian instrument has a slightly ‘dirty’ quality, heavy on energetic panache, which perhaps won’t appeal to everyone but is certainly dispatched with wizardly skill

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