Cirri: Sonatas and Duos for Cello

The debut album from a Spanish string-bass ensemble with a mission to revive lost treasures of chamber music from the Baroque era.

Composer: Giovanni Battista Cirri
Artists: Carlos Montesinos Defez (cello)
Breaking Bass Ensemble

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This world premiere recording presents four sonatas and four duos by Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724-1808), a cello virtuoso and teacher whose reputation took him across Europe – including to London, where for a time during the 1760s he was employed by members of the Royal Family, and took part in the first concert given in the English capital by the eight-year-old Mozart.

By now, however, Cirri’s name has been almost forgotten, save through an edition of dubious scholarship from the 1950s of a viola concerto which is in fact an arrangement of one of his London cello sonatas. His set of six cello concertos Op 14 has been recorded before now, revealing his creative gifts to be not dazzlingly original but always pleasing, and superbly conceived for his own instrument.

All cellists of an adventurous disposition will accordingly be drawn to this new collection, which contains work dating from after his return to Italy in 1780, and to his native Emilia-Romagna region. The Breaking Bass ensemble has selected four of the 12 Sonate di camera, and alternated them with four of the Eight Duets for two cellos to make a satisfying contrast of genre and texture within the album.

Tracklist:
Duo No. 8 in F Major for 2 Cellos:
0:00 Adagio
2:14 Allegro moderato
4:35 Minuetto

Sonate da camera No. 2 for Cello and B.C. in A Major:
6:30 Largo
9:16 Allegro
12:12 Allegro

Duo No. 7 in A Minor for 2 Cellos:
14:08 Allegro non molto
15:49 Adagio
19:03 Tempo di minuetto

Sonate da camera No. 6 for Cello and B.C. in G Major:
21:05 Largo
23:59 Allegro
26:18 Allegro

Duo No. 3 in B-Flat Major for 2 Cellos:
28:45 Allegro moderato
31:30 Adagio
33:15 Tempo di minuetto

Sonate da camera No. 5 for Cello and B.C. in C Minor:
35:21 Largo
38:54 Allegro
40:58 Allegro

Duo No. 3 in G Major for 2 Cellos:
42:44 Allegro ma non troppo
45:05 Adagio amoroso
47:02 Rondeau allegretto

Sonate da camera No. 10 for Cello and B.C. in C Major:
49:17 Largo
51:46 Allegro
54:36 Allegro

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