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Cello Rising


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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  Composer: Galli, Domenico
  Sonata III for cello solo 04:40
01 I. 01:49 $ 0.44 USD
02 II. 01:01 $ 0.24 USD
03 III. Giga 01:50 $ 0.44 USD
 
 
  Composer: Degli Antoni, Giovanni Battista
04 Ricercate sopra il violoncello 04:14 $ 1.02 USD
 
 
  Composer: Gabrielli, Domenico
  Sonata in G major for cello and b.c. 07:04
05 I. Grave 01:15 $ 0.30 USD
06 II. Allegro 01:49 $ 0.44 USD
07 III. Largo 01:54 $ 0.46 USD
08 IV. Presto 02:06 $ 0.50 USD
 
 
  Composer: Telemann, Georg Philipp
  Sonata in D major for cello and b.c., TWV 41:D6 08:20
09 I. Lento 01:53 $ 0.45 USD
10 II. Allegro 02:55 $ 0.70 USD
11 III. Largo 01:23 $ 0.33 USD
12 IV. Allegro 02:09 $ 0.52 USD
 
 
  Composer: Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de
  Sonata II in G major for cello and b.c., Op.50 11:00
13 I. Largo 03:46 $ 0.90 USD
14 II. Allemanda 02:48 $ 0.67 USD
15 III. Largo 01:42 $ 0.41 USD
16 IV. Giga 02:44 $ 0.66 USD
 
 
  Composer: Boccherini, Luigi
  Sonata in B flat major, G.8 15:43
17 I. Allegro 05:36 $ 1.34 USD
18 II. Andante affettuoso 05:32 $ 1.33 USD
19 III. Allegro 04:35 $ 1.10 USD
 
 
  Composer: Boccherini, Luigi
  Sonata in A major for cello and b.c., G.4 17:16
20 I. Adagio 03:15 $ 0.78 USD
21 II. Allegro 08:39 $ 2.08 USD
22 III. Affettuoso 05:22 $ 1.29 USD
 
  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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