J. S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord Ilya Gringolts & Francesco Corti

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, BWV 1015:
• 1 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, BWV 1015: I. Dolce 02:50
• 2 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, BWV 1015: II. Allegro assai 02:58
• 3 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, BWV 1015: III. Andante un poco 02:45
• 4 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, BWV 1015: IV. Presto 04:09
• Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017:
• 5 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: I. Largo 04:21
• 6 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: II. Allegro 04:23
• 7 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: III. Adagio 03:26
• 8 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: IV. Allegro 04:23
• Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019:
• 9 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: I. Allegro 03:14
• 10 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: II. Largo 01:32
• 11 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: III. Allegro 04:23
• 12 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: IV. Adagio 03:20
• 13 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: V. Allegro 03:04
• Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019a:
• 14 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019a: IV. Adagio 02:06
• 15 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019a: III. Cantabile ma un poco adagio 06:23
• Tertia deficiens:
• 16 McIntosh: Tertia deficiens 08:40
• Violin Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1014:
• 17 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1014: I. Adagio 03:32
• 18 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1014: II. Allegro 02:49
• 19 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1014: III. Andante 02:59
• 20 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1014: IV. Allegro 03:07
• Violin Sonata No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016:
• 21 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016: I. Adagio 03:56
• 22 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016: II. Allegro 02:55
• 23 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016: III. Adagio ma non tanto 04:41
• 24 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016: IV. Allegro 03:36
• Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018:
• 25 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: I. — 07:12
• 26 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: II. Allegro 04:24
• 27 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: III. Adagio 02:38
• 28 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: IV. Vivace 02:20
• Total Runtime 01:46:06

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Zwei künstlerisch unterschiedliche, aber komplementäre Persönlichkeiten, die seit Jahren eine erfolgreiche Partnerschaft verbindet, nehmen sich eines Meilensteins der Kammermusik an: Auf der einen Seite Francesco Corti, einer der bekanntesten Cembalisten und Protagonist auf fünf hochgelobten Alben, die beim Label Arcana erschienen sind. Auf der anderen Seite - zum ersten Mal bei Arcana - Ilya Gringolts, ein äußerst vielseitiger Geiger, der sich im Bereich der zeitgenössischen Musik engagiert, aber auch von einer tiefen Leidenschaft für das Barockrepertoire und die historische Aufführungspraxis beseelt ist. Ein Beweis dafür ist seine Einspielung von Locatellis Il labirinto armonico (2021), die mit dem Diapason d'Or ausgezeichnet und von Gramophone zum Editor's Choice gekürt wurde. Gemeinsam widmen sich Corti und Gringolts mit Bachs Sonaten für Violine und Cembalo dem ersten großen Beispiel konzertanter Sonaten für Tasten- und Melodieinstrumente. Abgerundet wird das Programm durch Tertia deficiens, einem Stück des zeitgenössischen Komponisten und Barock-Violinisten Andrew McIntosh (Grammy-Nominierung), das speziell für dieses Projekt in Auftrag gegeben wurde, um eine eindrucksvolle Brücke zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart zu schlagen.

Ilya Gringolts, Violine
Francesco Corti, Cembalo

Ilya Gringolts
Despite his youth, Ilya Gringolts can already look back on sixteen extraordinarily successful years in his violinist career. His inquisitiveness regarding new musical challenges has shown him to be an outstanding musical personality.

After studying violin and composition in Saint Petersburg with Tatiana Liberova and Jeanna Metallidi, he attended the Juilliard School of Music where he studied with Itzhak Perlman. In 1998 he won the International Violin Competition Premio Paganini, as the youngest first prize winner in the history of the competition. As a soloist he devotes himself particularly to contemporary and seldom played works. He has premiered compositions by Peter Maxwell Davies, Augusta Read Thomas, Christophe Bertrand and Michael Jarrell. In addition, he is interested in historical performance practice. At the Verbier Festival in summer 2010, he played the complete cycle of the Bach Sonatas on a baroque violin, accompanied by Masaaki Suzuki. He is also first violinist of the Gringolts Quartet, which he founded in 2008.

In the 2014/15 season Ilya Gringolts will again perform at prestigious concert halls such as Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Wigmore Hall in London. As a soloist he has been invited to perform with the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Adelaide Symphony and Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he will also record the violin concerto of the New Zealander composer Ross Harris.

In the past years, Ilya Gringolts has performed with leading orchestras around the world, such as the Chicago Symphony, London Philharmonic, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony, NHK Symphony, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Birmingham Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, BBC Symphony, Sao Paulo Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Hallé Orchestra and both orchestras of SWR. Highlights of the 2013/14 season included projects with the Singapore Symphony, Bamberg Symphony, Warszaw Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, Taipei Symphony and Columbus Symphony Orchestras.

Ilya Gringolts can be just as frequently heard in recital programmes. He is a regular guest at the festivals in Lucerne, Kuhmo, Colmar and Bucharest (Enescu Festival), as well as at the Serate Musicali in Milan and Saint Petersburg Philharmonic. For his chamber music projects, he collaborates with artists such as Yuri Bashmet, Lynn Harrell, Diemut Poppen, Nicolas Angelich, Itamar Golan, Peter Laul, Nicholas Hodges and Jörg Widmann.

After numerous critically praised recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, BIS and Hyperion, Ilya Gringolts has with three recent releases on the Onyx label, devoted himself to the music of Robert Schumann: the violin sonatas 1-3 with Peter Laul (2010), the piano trios, played with Dmitry Kouzov and Peter Laul (2011), and the string quartets and piano quintet with the Gringolts Quartet and Peter Laul (2011). Last year his recording of the 24 caprices for solo violin by Paganini on Orchid Classics (2013) received many outstanding reviews, including in The Strad and Gramophone. In 2006, the CD Taneyev – Chamber Music together with Mikhail Pletnev, Vadim Repin, Nobuko Imai and Lynn Harrell received a Gramophone Award.

Apart from his position as violin professor at the Zurich Academy of the Arts, he is also a Violin International Fellow at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. Ilya Gringolts plays a 1718-1720 Stradivarius, which was made available to him by a private collection.

Francesco Corti
w­­as born in Arezzo, Italy, in a musical family in 1984. He studied organ in Perugia, then harpsichord in Geneva and in Amsterdam.

He was awarded at the International "Johann Sebastian Bach" Competition in Leipzig (2006) and at the Bruges Harpsichord Competition (2007).

As a soloist, he has appeared in recitals and concerts all over Europe, in the USA, in Latin America and in New Zealand. He has been invited by festivals such as Mozart Woche and the Salzburger Festpiele, BachFest Leipzig, MusikFest Bremen, Utrecht Early Music Festival, Festival Radio France Montpellier, Milanesiana. He has performed in halls such as Salle Pleyel (Paris), Bozar (Bruxelles), Konzerthaus (Vienna), Tonhalle (Zürich), Mozarteum and Haus für Mozart (Salzburg) and Concertgebouw (Amsterdam).

Since 2007 he is a member of Les Musiciens du Louvre (M. Minkowski). With this Ensemble he has taken part to countless tours and played solo concertos by Bach, Händel, Haydn and Mozart.


He also performs with other famous early music groups such as que Zefiro (A. Bernardini), the Bach Collegium Japan (M. Suzuki), Les Talens Lyriques (C. Rousset), Harmonie Universelle (F. Deuter), Pulcinella (O. Gaillard), Música Temprana (A. van der Spoel) and Le Concert des Nations (J. Savall).

As a soloist, he has been accompanied in concertos by the Mozarteum Orchestra, the Combattimento Consort, the Leipzig Baroque Orchestra and the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova.

Since 2015 he conducts regularly Les Musiciens du Louvre in a repertoire that spans from A. Scarlatti and Händel to Galuppi and Mozart. He was invited as soloist and conductor by the Holland Baroque Society for two European tours of concerts (Brandenburg concertos), and by the Nederlandse Bachvereniging.

His solo recordings include a CD of Louis Couperin Suites, the Partitas by J. S. Bach and the two piano quartets by Mozart recorded on the original instrument owned by the composer, now in Salzburg.

In 2017 the French label Evidence will publish his new recording of Haydn sonatas.

He has taught in masterclasses all over Europe, in Latin America and in Asia.

Since September 2016, he is professor of harpsichord and thorough bass at the Schola Cantorum Basilensis.

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