A Night in London
Ophelie Gaillard (cello), Pulcinella Orchestra, Sandrine Piau (soprano), Gabriel Pidoux, Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano)
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrumental
Among the disc’s many highlights are the virtuoso cello concertos by Cirri and Porpora which showcase Gaillard’s athletic technique as well as her extraordinary ability to make the cello sing.
A Night in London
Ophelie Gaillard (cello), Pulcinella Orchestra, Sandrine Piau (soprano), Gabriel Pidoux, Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano)
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrumental
Among the disc’s many highlights are the virtuoso cello concertos by Cirri and Porpora which showcase Gaillard’s athletic technique as well as her extraordinary ability to make the cello sing.
About
In the 1730s, many composers tried their luck in London. Geminiani revolutionized instrumental writing with his famous treatise on interpretation and presented an amazing version of La Folia; his pupil Avison orchestrated concertos by Scarlatti, and Porpora ventured away from opera to rediscover the vocality of the cello with one of the most beautiful concertos of that period. Ophélie Gaillard and Pulcinella treat us to a frenzied and poetic night in London. They meet Vivaldi, Hasse, Scottish composer James Oswald and virtuoso cellist Giovanni Battista Cirri. Guest artists Sandrine Piau and Lucile Richardot take on magnificent vocal pieces by Geminiani and Handel.
Contents and tracklist
- Ophelie Gaillard, Pulcinella Orchestra
- Ophelie Gaillard, Pulcinella Orchestra
- Ophelie Gaillard, Pulcinella Orchestra
- Ophelie Gaillard, Sandrine Piau, Pulcinella Orchestra
- Ophelie Gaillard, Pulcinella Orchestra, Gabriel Pidoux
- Ophelie Gaillard, Pulcinella Orchestra
- Ophelie Gaillard, Pulcinella Orchestra
- Ophelie Gaillard, Pulcinella Orchestra
- Ophelie Gaillard, Pulcinella Orchestra
- Ophelie Gaillard, Pulcinella Orchestra
- Ophelie Gaillard, Lucile Richardot, Pulcinella Orchestra
- Ophelie Gaillard, Pulcinella Orchestra
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Ophélie Gaillard on A Night in London
22nd Mar 2022
The French cellist talks to Katherine about her new album centring on three composer-cellists who made their mark on the English capital in the mid-eighteenth century: the Italians Nicola Porpora and Giovanni Battista Cirri, and the Scotsman James Oswald.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceMarch 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards2023Nominated - Solo Instrumental
May 2022
Among the disc’s many highlights are the virtuoso cello concertos by Cirri and Porpora which showcase Gaillard’s athletic technique as well as her extraordinary ability to make the cello sing.
May 2022
[The Cirri concerto] is a suavely virtuoso number that Gaillard performs on her 1737 Goffriller with mellow-voiced lyricism and lithe agility to lightly springing orchestral support, retaining a rounded softness even in the upper-register lines of the central Largo assai.
March 2022
This imaginative, scrupulously-researched programme of concertos, sacred and secular arias and folk-songs paints a vivid picture of the diversity of musical life in the English capital during the eighteenth century, with Gaillard switching easily from fluid elegance in the Porpora and Cirri concertos to something much more down-and-dirty in the rumbustious tavern-songs and dances. There are some ravishing vocal contributions too.
8th May 2022
This scintillating disc evokes the fecundity of [the 1730s], with Gaillard playing a Francesco Goffriller cello from 1737, and the period-instrument Pulcinella Orchestra cantering through Porpora’s G major concerto (their reading of the allegro, bursting with life, is a thing of joy).
