Weber: Sonate à mandolino e basso Davide Rebuffa, Luca Guglielmi, Nicola Brovelli

• Francesco Weber: Sonata 1:
• 1 Weber: Sonata 1: Andante – Allegro – Menuet con Spirito 05:11
• Sonata 2:
• 2 Weber: Sonata 2: Andante con spirito - [Minuetto] Sostenuto - Giga (Allegro assai) 05:50
• Sonata 3:
• 3 Weber: Sonata 3: Amoroso - Allegro - Menuet (Lento) 06:09
• Sonata 4:
• 4 Weber: Sonata 4: Andante - Larghetto - Gavotta 07:13
• Sonata 5:
• 5 Weber: Sonata 5: Andante - larghetto - Menuet (Allegro) 06:37
• Sonata 6:
• 6 Weber: Sonata 6: [Allegro] - Largo - Giga 06:09
• Sonata 7:
• 7 Weber: Sonata 7: Lento - Allegro - Menuet (con spirito ma non presto) 08:01
• Sonata 8:
• 8 Weber: Sonata 8: Larghetto - Allegro - Lento - Giga 06:56
• Sonata 9:
• 9 Weber: Sonata 9: Largo - Allegro assai - Menuet (Piano) 05:09
• Sonata 10:
• 10 Weber: Sonata 10: Largo - Allegro - Menuet spiritoso ma non presto 08:14
• Sonata 11:
• 11 Weber: Sonata 11: Vaggo - Gigga - Sarabanda - Menuet con spirito 07:30
• Sonata 12:
• 12 Weber: Sonata 12: Moderatto - Allegro - Menuet con spirito 06:35
• Total Runtime 01:19:34

Info zu Weber: Sonate à mandolino e basso

Mit den „Sonaten für Mandolino und Continuo“ rückt Francesco Weber in den Mittelpunkt, dessen zwölf Sonaten zu den bedeutendsten erhaltenen Werken für die Barockmandoline zählen. Obwohl Weber den größten Teil seines Lebens in England verbrachte, weisen neue Forschungen auf enge familiäre und kulturelle Verbindungen zur Republik Genua hin, einem der wichtigsten Zentren der historischen Mandolinenbaukunst. Der Mandolinist Davide Rebuffa präsentiert diese selten gespielten Werke gemeinsam mit Luca Guglielmi und Nicola Brovelli in einer Aufnahme, die Musik- und Instrumentengeschichte auf besondere Weise miteinander verbindet. Gespielt wird auf einer 1717 in Genua gebauten Mandoline von Andrea Weber, dem Vater des Komponisten. Das Instrument wurde erst kürzlich in einer Privatsammlung wiederentdeckt und zählt zu den wenigen erhaltenen genuesischen Barockmandolinen. So vereint diese Weltpremiere die Wiederentdeckung eines außergewöhnlichen Repertoires mit der Geschichte eines einzigartigen Instruments. Das Ergebnis ist ein faszinierender Einblick in die Klangwelt des europäischen Spätbarocks und in das Schaffen eines heute weitgehend vergessenen Komponisten.

Davide Rebuffa, Mandoline
Luca Guglielmi, Cembalo
Nicola Brovelli, Cello

Davide Rebuffa
developed his first passionate interest in music through the electric guitar; he graduated in classical guitar at the Conservatorio of Genoa after having studied with Dora Filippone and Paolo Paolini. During his guitar studies he soon became interested in the lute and baroque guitar repertoire. He taught himself the lute following historical treatises and eventually devoted himself to the research and performance of medieval, renaissance and baroque music on period instruments. In the following years he further developed his technique and performing practice with the lute, theorbo, vihuela and early guitars, under the guidance of Hopkinson Smith.

Since the early 80s he was one of the first Italian lute players exploring and performing the medieval repertoire with medieval lutes; early arabic-andalusian music of the Maghreb with 'ûd; baroque mandolins and calichon/mandora using the historical performing techniques described in original sources. He has performed as soloist as well as an ensemble musician and continuo player with some of today's most respected conductors and ensembles, being invited to give recitals at many well known International Festivals in Europe, North Africa and Asia.

He has taken part in ensemble recording for Pentagramma, Stradivarius, Glossa, Brilliant Classics, Tactus including radio and television broadcasts (RAI 3, RAI 2, TRT 3).

He is founder and director of the Lyocorne Consort (1979), Ensemble Al Farabi (1987), Centro Studi Piemontese di Musica Antica (1991), International Early Music Festival Bugella Civitas in Biella (1994), Accademia Bugella Civitas (1994), Accademia dei Desiosi (2004), I Suonatori Sconcertati (2005), Ensemble Schifanoia (2006), La Compagnia dei Temperamenti Ineguali (2007) and together with Lorenzo Girodo he directed for more than thirty years the medieval music group Ensemble Clerici Vagantes.

Together with italian mandolin virtuoso Mauro Squillante, he recently founded the The Early Mandolin Academy, the first international post-graduate course on the early mandolins, giving masterclasses, concerts and publishing a series of recordings performed with all types of historical survining mandolins of the XVII and XVIII centuries.

"His all-round accomplishment within the musical sphere extends to other domains, including musicological and organological research. It is this quality of being informed and ispired by practitioner experience that makes his musicological writings so unusually original and penetrating".

In addition to his activities as a performer, Davide Rebuffa has published articles and has been invited to give lectures on organology and musical iconography of the lute by the major international Universities and Music Institutes, including Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. As musicologists he also collaborates with Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance dell'Université ''François-Rabelais'' di Tours (CNRS). As researcher and collector of historical plucked strings instruments he edited the catalogues of various antique instruments exhibitions: (co-authored with Lorenzo Girodo: Vedere la Musica, Biella 2000; Gli arnesi della Musica, Rivoli 2003; co-authored with Gianni Accornero: The Guitar: Four centuries of Masterpieces, Alessandria 2008); C. A. Carutti, Passioni di un Collezionista, Cremona 2010); co-authored with Dinko Fabris Liuti del Mediterraneo, Bari 2010. He is the author of the first italian book on the lute history which is considered an international reference essay for the study of the organological transformations all the instruments of the lute family: Il Liuto, (L'Epos, Palermo, 2012).

Davide Rebuffa has recently been active extensively performing the baroque repertoire with very rare surviving historical lutes (Buchstetter, Wenger), 5-course guitars (Sellas and Voboam) and mandolins (Smorsone, Franchi, Maraffi, Presbler, Ferrari, Nonemacher) from his own ad other private collections.

"Such combination of knowledge and experiences on historical instruments places him, as a practical musician, in an ideal position to apply the findings of musicology. Conversely, it places him, as a musicologist and teacher, in an ideal position to arrive at insights and judgements provoked by his activity as a performer".

His interpretations - though based on a strict reading of the original sources and historical performing practice- try to offer to the modern listener the emotional experience as close as possible to the spirit of the musical language of the past, through a careful perception of the the context and the social destination of music making, aiming to penetrate the spirit of the musical language's emotional significance and giving vitality and deepening the expression through the practice of decoration and improvisation.

He is currently teaching lute, early guitars and early mandolin at the Centro Studi Piemontese di Musica Antica in Biella and he is Professor of Medieval Lute and Baroque Mandolino at the Conservatorio "A. Pedrollo" in Vicenza.

Luca Guglielmi
(Turin, Italy, 1977) is renowned for his historically informed interpretations of music of all periods, his wide repertoire and his strong commitment into the study and application of phenomenology of music. He has a great passion for incorporating period style within the traditional orchestral world and creating distinctive and dynamic programs.

Luca Guglielmi has a wide repertoire, from Gesualdo to Strawinsky, conducting orchestras and ensembles such as: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orfeus Barockensemble, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, Orchestra Milano Classica, Arsys Bourgogne, Coro di Torino della RAI, Cappella Musicale di Santa Maria dei Servi di Bologna.

In opera, he has been assistant to conductors such as: Antoni Ros-Marbà, Victor Pablo-Perez, Gottfried von der Goltz, Giovanni Antonini, Jordi Savall for works from Monteverdi to Mozart, working in famous opera houses like: Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), Teatro Real (Madrid), Teatro Regio (Turin), Styriarte Festival (Graz).

Composer of notable talent, he studied at the Turin's Conservatorio under Alessandro Ruo Rui. He has composed several works for mixed a cappella choir, a format he favours; his compositions have been performed in Italy and abroad by the Turin Vocalensemble (dir. Carlo Pavese), by the Coro Filarmonico “Ruggero Maghini” and by the St Jacobs Chamber Choir (dir. Gary Graden).

He replaced at the very last minute renowned conductor Reinhard Goebel with Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and soprano Roberta Mameli, for a concert in the famous Basilica del Santo in Padua (Italy).

Concurrently, from 1993 Luca Guglielmi has had a busy international career as a soloist of historical keyboards (harpsichord, organ, clavichord, fortepiano), choir master and leader of various ensembles "with original instruments". Honourable Mention at the XII International Organ Competition in Bruges, he studied harpsichord with Ton Koopman and Patrizia Marisaldi, organ with Vittorio Bonotto, renaissance counterpoint and historic composition with Sergio Pasteris.

For nearly twenty years Luca has been the assistant and continuo player of Jordi Savall and his ensembles Hesperion XXI, Le Concert des Nations and La Capella Reial de Catalunya, giving concerts, from the duo to the large ensemble, all over the world. He has collaborated with artists such as Cecilia Bartoli, Sara Mingardo, Barbara Bonney, Philippe Jarrousky, Giuliano Carmignola, Paolo Pandolfo, Ottavio Dantone, Gabriele Cassone, Paul O'Dette, Katia and Marielle Labéque and ensembles like Il Giardino Armonico, Ensemble Zefiro, Ensemble La Fenice, The Rare Fruits Council, Freiburger Barockorchester, RAI Turin Orchestra (under Jeffrey Tate, Roberto Abbado, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos).

Luca Guglielmi has a wide discography of more than 50 CDs, among them 18 solo titles devoted to a repertoire from Frescobaldi to Mozart, for such labels as: Accent, cpo, Vivat, Hänssler Classics, Stradivarius and Elegia. His recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations and Pasquini's Sonate da gravecembalo have been awarded with the "Diapason d'or"; his last organ recording Bach in Montecassino, for the English label Vivat, received an "Editor's Choice" from the Gramophone magazine.

Luca Guglielmi's dedication to educational projects has led him to teach in several summer early music courses and master classes in Italy (Pamparato and Urbino), France (Barbaste) and Spain (San Feliu de Guixols), basing his teaching exclusively on original treatises and other historical sources. From 2013 he is professor of harpsichord, fortepiano and chamber music at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya (ESMuC), Barcelona.

Nicola Brovelli
is born in Busto Arsizio (Va) in 1986: he gets the cello diploma as a private student at the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” in Milan in 2007, year in which he starts to study the baroque cello in Gaetano Nasillo’s classroom, where he takes the degrees in June 2011 with the highest marks and with honors. He performed in Italy, France, England, Holland, Belgium, Croatia, Latvia, Russia and Kuwait, participating in important festivals, such as Estate Fiesolana, Ravenna Festival, Serate Musicali, Echi Lontani, Regie Sinfonie, MITO Settembre Musica, Festival della Valle d’Itria, Amici della Musica di Firenze, Concerti della Wigmore Hall, Festival Organistico Olandese, Festival di Korcula, Varazdinske Barokne Večeri, Festival d’Ambronay. He recorded for Concerto Classicas, Brilliant, Dynamic, Sony, Tactus, Glossa, Arcana and CPO.

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