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Cello Rising

Composer Luigi Boccherini
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Giovanni Battista Degli Antoni
Domenico Gabrielli
Domenico Galli
Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer Björn Gäfvert
Karl Nyhlin
Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann
Catalogue Number BIS-2214 SACD
EAN 7318599922140
Format SACD Hybrid

This hybrid disc plays on both CD and SACD players
SACD Surround - SACD Stereo - CD Stereo

Release date Jul 2016
Total time 70'11


Active as a soloist and as a member of leading early music groups worldwide, Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann has appeared on a number of BIS releases, often being singled out in reviews for her performances as continuo player and soloist. For her first solo disc, she has devised a programme illustrating the rise of the cello – from its beginnings as a large-bodied, deep-voiced provider of accompaniments in church music to a glittering, flittering solo instrument of the Rococo. The programme begins with some of the earliest repertoire for the instrument – two unaccompanied pieces by Domenico Galli and Giovanni Battista degli Antonii, and a solo sonata by Domenico Gabrielli, all hailing from around 1690. Shortly thereafter the cello began to shrink in size, making it suitable for a more soloistic role. Bodin de Boismortier and Telemann were two of the many composers who explored its possibilities during the first part of the 18th century, but no one could match Luigi Boccherini, who born in 1743 became one of the first internationally recognized cello virtuosos. Not only did he compose more than thirty sonatas – and several concertos – for his instrument, but he also stretched the limits of what was playable on the cello to the utmost, and beyond. Boccherini challenges cellists with passages to be played at dizzying speed with the left hand above the fingerboard – but he also never forgets the instrument’s capacity for singing. Throughout the programme Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann is supported by Björn Gävfert at the harpsichord, and in the two Boccherini sonatas which close the disc the two are joined by Karl Nyhlin, adding colours with his baroque guitar – another of the composer’s favourite instruments.
 
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  Domenico Galli
  Sonata III for cello solo 4'40
01 I. 1'49
02 II. 1'01
03 III. Giga 1'50
 
 
  Giovanni Battista Degli Antoni
04 Ricercate sopra il violoncello 4'14
 
 
  Domenico Gabrielli
  Sonata in G major for cello and b.c. 7'04
05 I. Grave 1'15
06 II. Allegro 1'49
07 III. Largo 1'54
08 IV. Presto 2'06
 
 
  Georg Philipp Telemann
  Sonata in D major for cello and b.c., TWV 41:D6 8'20
09 I. Lento 1'53
10 II. Allegro 2'55
11 III. Largo 1'23
12 IV. Allegro 2'09
 
 
  Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
  Sonata II in G major for cello and b.c., Op.50 11'00
13 I. Largo 3'46
14 II. Allemanda 2'48
15 III. Largo 1'42
16 IV. Giga 2'44
 
 
  Luigi Boccherini
  Sonata in B flat major, G.8 15'43
17 I. Allegro 5'36
18 II. Andante affettuoso 5'32
19 III. Allegro 4'35
 
 
  Luigi Boccherini
  Sonata in A major for cello and b.c., G.4 17'16
20 I. Adagio 3'15
21 II. Allegro 8'39
22 III. Affettuoso 5'22
 
  Album total 70'11
ComposerBoccherini, Luigi
Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de
Degli Antoni, Giovanni Battista
Gabrielli, Domenico
Galli, Domenico
Telemann, Georg Philipp
CelloYamahiro Brinkmann, Mime
HarpsichordGafvert (Gäfvert), Bjorn (Björn)
Baroque guitarNyhlin, Karl

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