Un Air d’Italie. The Mandolin in Paris in the 18th Century Anna Schivazappa, Pizzicar Galante, Marc Mauillon

• Giovanni Battista Gervasio (ca. 1725 - 1785): Sonata per mandolino solo, e basso:
• 1 Gervasio: Sonata per mandolino solo, e basso: I: Allegro 03:48
• 2 Gervasio: Sonata per mandolino solo, e basso: II: Largo amoroso 03:44
• 3 Gervasio: Sonata per mandolino solo, e basso: III: Allegro 02:23
• Nicolas Dezède (1740 - 1792): Julie, Act II:
• 4 Dezède: Julie, Act II: Air de Lison 04:36
• Anonymous: Sonata Prima in C Major:
• 5 Anonymous: Sonata Prima in C Major: I. Moderato 02:34
• 6 Anonymous: Sonata Prima in C Major: II. Allegro 02:43
• 7 Anonymous: Sonata Prima in C Major: III. Andante 03:12
• 8 Anonymous: Sonata Prima in C Major: IV. Allegro 01:56
• Sonata VI in G Minor:
• 9 Anonymous: Sonata VI in G Minor: I. Adagio 03:18
• 10 Anonymous: Sonata VI in G Minor: II. Allegro 02:05
• 11 Anonymous: Sonata VI in G Minor: III. Pastorale 03:31
• 12 Anonymous: Sonata VI in G Minor: IV. Allegro 01:37
• Antoine Forqueray (1672 - 1745): Suite No. 2 in G Major:
• 13 Forqueray: Suite No. 2 in G Major: No. 2, La Mandoline 07:25
• Anonymous: Sonata IV in G Major:
• 14 Anonymous: Sonata IV in G Major: I. Allegretto 01:52
• 15 Anonymous: Sonata IV in G Major: II. Adagio 01:18
• 16 Anonymous: Sonata IV in G Major: III. Allegro 02:38
• 17 Anonymous: Sonata IV in G Major: IV. Aria 02:02
• 18 Anonymous: Sonata IV in G Major: V. Giga - Allegro 01:35
• Giovanni Battista Gervasio: Sonata per mandolino e basso:
• 19 Gervasio: Sonata per mandolino e basso: I. Allegro a suo comodo 02:54
• 20 Gervasio: Sonata per mandolino e basso: II. Minuetto al gusto italiano 02:33
• 21 Gervasio: Sonata per mandolino e basso: III. Gavotta 02:34
• André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741 - 1813): L’Amant jaloux, Act II, Scene 14:
• 22 Grétry: L’Amant jaloux, Act II, Scene 14: Serenade. "Tandis que tout sommeille" 03:12
• Anonymous: La Fürstenberg:
• 23 Anonymous: La Fürstenberg 05:23
• Total Runtime 01:08:53

Info for Un Air d’Italie. The Mandolin in Paris in the 18th Century

Als exotisches und mediterranes Instrument aus Italien war die Mandoline in Frankreich bis zum Ende des Jahrhunderts der Aufklärung sehr in Mode, was auch durch zahlreiche ikonografische und musikalische Quellen belegt ist. Pizzicar Galante, ein Ensemble, das heute als Maßstab für die Interpretation der galanten Literatur für Mandoline und Continuo gilt, wurde für die "Finesse, die Kreativität und den Geist" (Olivier Fourés, Diapason) und die "kommunikative Energie" seiner Darbietungen (Sébastien Llinares, France Musique) gelobt. Die zweite Einspielung bei Arcana umfasst eine Zusammenstellung der besten Musik, die während des wahrhaft "goldenen Zeitalters" der Mandoline in Paris zwischen den 1760er Jahren und der Revolution gespielt wurde. Es handelt sich um ein seltenes und unerforschtes Repertoire, bei dem die umwerfende Virtuosität von Anna Schivazappa, einer Spezialistin für historische Mandolinen, mit der betörenden und charismatischen Stimme von Marc Mauillon in einen Dialog tritt.

Anna Schivazappa, Mandoline, Leitung
Marc Mauillon, Tenor
Ronald Martin Alonso, Viola da Gamba
Maria Christina Cleary, Harfe
Daniel de Morais, Theorbo, Achlaute, Gitarre
Ana Fontana, Cembalo
Pizzicar Galante

Anna Schivazappa
A specialist in historical mandolins, Anna Schivazappa is rapidly gaining international recognition for her brilliant virtuosity and inventive interpretations of baroque and classical repertoire. A versatile musician, she is at ease in both early music and in contemporary works, performing on a variety of historical and modern plucked string instruments.

As a soloist and chamber musician, Anna is regularly invited to major festivals and concert seasons all over Europe and abroad, including Festival MITO SettembreMusica, Festival de Sablé, Sypert Concert Series, Les Concerts de Midi, Festival Embar(o)quement Immédiat, Italian Cultural Institute (Sydney, Hong Kong), Festival Sinfonia en Périgord, Festival Midis Minimes, Costa Rica Music Festival…

Always eager to expand her music horizons, she has collaborated as a performer and recording artist with Il Giardino Armonico (Giovanni Antonini), ensemble Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon), ensemble Matheus (J. C. Spinosi) and the Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Paris, among others, and is a founding member of duo Dialogos, together with pianist Michela Chiara Borghese.

In 2012, she founded the ensemble Pizzicar Galante, together with harpsichordist Fabio Antonio Falcone, with the aim of rediscovering the original 18th-century repertoire for mandolin and continuo. Pizzicar Galante’s two albums, released by Brilliant Classics and Arcana, have been unanimously praised by the specialized press (nomination to the International Classical Music Awards 2017, 5/5 “Diapasons”, Toccata “CD-Tipp”…).

They have also been broadcast by international radio stations, including RAI Radio 3, Spanish RTVE, France Musique and BBC.

Recent highlights include concerto performances at Festival de Sablé with Ensemble Jupiter directed by Thomas Dunford (live broadcast by France Télévisions), and the world-premiere performance of the Fandango by Giulio Castagnoli at the MiTo SettembreMusica Festival 2019.

A native of Padova, Italy, Anna Schivazappa graduated from the Conservatorio Cesare Pollini where she studied with Ugo Orlandi. In 2015, she received a master’s degree in Performance Practice of Early Music, summa cum laude, from the Université Paris-Sorbonne and the Pôle Supérieur de Paris-Boulogne. In June 2018, she has been awarded a medal from the Académie Arts Sciences et Lettres in Paris, for her contribution to the rediscovery and dissemination of the repertoire of the baroque mandolin.

Besides her concert activity, Anna holds a PhD in musicology at Sorbonne University and gives masterclasses, conferences and seminars in important European institutions such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the Lithuanian Academy of Music and the Milan Conservatory. Since 2017, she is associate musician-researcher at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which awarded her a “bourse d’excellence” for her projects on the original mandolin repertoire.

Anna is living in Paris and performs on a Neapolitan mandolin by Antonius Vinaccia dating from 1768.

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