Boccherini: Cello Concertos, Stabat Mater & Quintet

24 FLAC Discount

Cellist Ophélie Gaillard and Pulcinella Orchestra focus on Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer and first virtuoso cellist in history. Born in the Tuscany, Boccherini then went to the Court of Prussa and Spain. His musical education looks like a journey around Europe, as it used to be. Long eclipsed by the violin, star of the string instruments, the cello slowly fit in the eighteenth century repertoire thanks to composers who played the instrument themselves. The now famous Suites of Johan Sebastian Bach are the first master pieces composed for the cello. Then Luigi Boccherini strengthened its place in the musical creation, thus becoming to cello what Vivaldi was to the violin one generation earlier. With rhythms of dance from Andalusia and melodies dug along the streets of Madrid, Boccherini draws with notes his adopted country such as his contemporary Francisco Goya did with colours. This double album explores all the genres (concertos, sonatas, symphonies) and invites the gorgeous Sandrine Piau to perform Boccherini's poignant Stabat Mater for string quintet and solo soprano.

Après avoir exploré la musique des 19e et 20e siècles, Ophélie Gaillard revient avec son ensemble Pulcinella aux sources baroques pour mettre en lumière Luigi Boccherini, compositeur italien et premier virtuose du violoncelle de l'histoire. Tout comme les Suites de Jean Sébastien Bach, les partitions de Boccherini donnent à l'instrument ses lettres de noblesse. Il est au violoncelle ce que Vivaldi fut, une génération avant lui, au violon. De sa Toscane natale aux cours de Prusse, la carrière de ce musicien génial est jalonnée de voyages à travers l'Europe, jusqu'à l'Espagne. Des rythmes de danse endiablés de l'Andalousie à l'atmosphère nocturne des rues de Madrid, Boccherini « croque » en musique ce pays d'adoption. Ce disque-portrait en deux volumes explore tous les genres (concertos, sonate, symphonies) et invite l'incontournable soprano Sandrine Piau pour interpréter les pages poignantes de son chez d'oeuvre vocal : le Stabat Mater.