Cirri: Sonatas and Duos For Cello

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Release Date: 11th Mar 2022
Catalogue No: 96416
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 56 minutes

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Cirri, G B: Duo No. 8 in F Major for 2 Cellos

Work length6:29

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Carlos Montesinos Defez (cello), breaking Bass Ensemble

I. Adagio

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II. Allegro moderato

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III. Minuetto

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Cirri, G B: Sonate da camera No. 2 for Cello and b.c.

Work length7:37

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I. Largo

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II. Allegro

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III. Allegro

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Cirri, G B: Duo No. 7 in A Minor for 2 Cellos

Work length6:57

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Carlos Montesinos Defez (cello), breaking Bass Ensemble

I. Allegro non molto

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II. Adagio

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III. Tempo di minuetto

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Cirri, G B: Sonate da camera No. 6 for Cello and b.c.

Work length7:39

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Carlos Montesinos Defez (cello), breaking Bass Ensemble

I. Largo

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II. Allegro

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III. Allegro

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Cirri, G B: Duo No. 3 in B flat major for 2 Cellos

Work length6:35

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Carlos Montesinos Defez (cello), breaking Bass Ensemble

I. Allegro moderato

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III. Tempo di minuetto

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Cirri, G B: Sonate da camera No. 5 for Cello and b.c.

Work length7:22

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Carlos Montesinos Defez (cello), breaking Bass Ensemble

I. Largo

Track length3:32

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II. Allegro

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III. Allegro

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Cirri, G B: Duo No. 3 in G Major for 2 Cellos

Work length6:32

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Carlos Montesinos Defez (cello), breaking Bass Ensemble

I. Allegro ma poco

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II. Adagio

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III. Rondo. Allegretto

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Cirri, G B: Sonate da camera No. 10 for Cello and b.c.

Work length7:15

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Carlos Montesinos Defez (cello), breaking Bass Ensemble

I. Largo

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II. Allegro

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III. Allegro

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The debut album from a Spanish string-bass ensemble with a mission to revive lost treasures of chamber music from the Baroque era.

This world premiere recording presents four sonatas and four duos by Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724-1808), a cello virtuoso and teacher whose reputation took him across Europe – including to London, where for a time during the 1760s he was employed by members of the Royal Family, and took part in the first concert given in the English capital by the eight-year-old Mozart.

By now, however, Cirri’s name has been almost forgotten, save through an edition of dubious scholarship from the 1950s of a viola concerto which is in fact an arrangement of one of his London cello sonatas. His set of six cello concertos, op.14, has been recorded before now, revealing his creative gifts to be not dazzlingly original but always pleasing, and superbly conceived for his own instrument.

All cellists of an adventurous disposition will accordingly be drawn to this new collection, which contains work dating from after his return to Italy in 1780, and to his native Emilia-Romagna region. The Breaking Bass ensemble has selected four of the 12 Sonate di camera, and alternated them with four of the Eight Duets for two cellos to make a satisfying contrast of genre and texture within the album.

The solo parts of the sonatas bristle with technical challenges as well as attractive melodic writing, and the duos are full of lively exchange between the two instruments, revealing a far more theatrical side to the composer, with the two instruments taking on solo roles and sharing the limelight on equal terms. They were clearly designed for pedagogical use to be performed by teacher and pupil.

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