Cross-dressing Bach: Chamber Rarities & Alternative Versions Enrico Gatti & Rinaldo Alessandrini

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti):
• 1 Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti): I. Adagio 01:59
• 2 Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti): II. Allegro 03:25
• 3 Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti): III. Andante 04:21
• 4 Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti): IV. Allegro 03:48
• Flute Partita in A Minor, BWV 1013 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti for Violin):
• 5 Flute Partita in A Minor, BWV 1013 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti for Violin): I. Allemande 04:48
• 6 Flute Partita in A Minor, BWV 1013 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti for Violin): II. Corrente 02:45
• 7 Flute Partita in A Minor, BWV 1013 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti for Violin): III. Sarabande 03:58
• 8 Flute Partita in A Minor, BWV 1013 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti for Violin): IV. Bourrée anglaise 01:56
• Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, BWV 964 (After BWV 1003):
• 9 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, BWV 964 (After BWV 1003): I. Grave 02:57
• 10 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, BWV 964 (After BWV 1003): II. Fuga. Allegro 07:32
• 11 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, BWV 964 (After BWV 1003): III. Andante 04:17
• 12 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, BWV 964 (After BWV 1003): IV. Allegro 03:32
• Trio in D Minor, BWV 583 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti):
• 13 Trio in D Minor, BWV 583 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti) 04:13
• Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti):
• 14 Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti): I. Vivace 05:17
• 15 Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti): II. Adagio 05:28
• 16 Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti): III. Allegro 03:32
• Fugue in G Minor, BWV 1026:
• 17 Fugue in G Minor, BWV 1026 04:55
• Total Runtime 01:08:43

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The musical partnership of violinist Enrico Gatti and harpsichordist Rinaldo Alessandrini now goes back a number of decades to when this pair of Italians, both with a voracious appetite for early music, were setting out on their careers. The years passed and both artists made fabulous recordings, often directing their own ensembles. Now with the natty title of Cross-dressing Bach, these Baroque music chamber musicians par excellence have reunited to produce a fascinating sound essay in different scorings, or dressings, for a range of works by Johann Sebastian Bach – a composer who was ever revising and refining his works and whose musical output can never be tidied away neatly as “all considered and understood.” As well as including alternative versions, this new recording revisits works with known scorings for other instruments and clothes them anew: there is a flute partita here, a pair of viola da gamba sonatas there. For all their affinity and interpretative skill with music from their own lands, this performance from Gatti and Alessandrini sees them clearly relishing rummaging in the never-ending supply of clothes from Bach’s musical wardrobe. It is one joy to welcome Enrico Gatti once again on Glossa, another to greet Rinaldo Alessandrini for the first time.

Daniele Gatti, violin
Rinaldo Alessandrini, harpsichord

Daniele Gatti
graduated as a composer and orchestra conductor at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. He is Chief Conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO) in Amsterdam since September 2016 and Artistic Advisor of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He has held prestigious roles at important musical institutions like the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre national de France, the Royal Opera House of London, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and Zurich’s Opernhaus. The Berliner Philharmoniker, the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala are just a few of the renowned symphonic institutions he regularly works with.

Some of the numerous and important new productions he has conducted include the Falstaff staged by Robert Carsen (in London, Milan, and Amsterdam); the Parsifal staged by Stefan Herheim opening the 2008 Bayreuther Festspiele (one of the very few Italian conductors to have been invited to the Wagnerian festival); the Parsifal staged by François Girard at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; four operas at the Salzburger Festspiele (Elektra, La Bohème, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Il trovatore).

To celebrate Verdi’s anniversary, in 2013 he conducted La traviata at the season opening of the Teatro alla Scala, where he also opened the 2008 season with Don Carlo, and performed other titles including Lohengrin, Lulu, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Falstaff, and Wozzeck.

Some of his most recent engagements include Pelléas et Mélisande at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tristan und Isolde at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, and the opening of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma where he conducted the same Wagnerian opera.

The year 2016 saw the beginning of a three-year concert cycle named “RCO meets Europe”. It involves 28 member states of the European Union and it includes the project “Side by Side”, a project allowing musicians from local youth orchestras to perform the first musical number of the program next to the members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Maestro Gatti, thus fostering an incredibly fruitful human and musical exchange. The Italian appointment took place in Turin at the Auditorium of the Lingotto building.

In June 2017 he conducted the RCO in an opera production, for the first time since his appointment as its Chief Conductor: Salome at the Nationale Opera of Amsterdam.

The 2017/2018 Season sees him conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker at the Philharmonie Berlin, the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan interpreting Mahler’s Second Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Europe, South Korea, Japan, and at the Carnegie Hall in New York, all events adding to Amsterdam’s traditional season. Other engagements include the opening of the new season of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma with La damnation de Faust, a tour with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and more performances with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in Munich, and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London.

Daniele Gatti was awarded the Premio Franco Abbiati from Italian music critics as best conductor in 2015, and in 2016 he was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur from the French Republic for his work as Musical Director of the Orchestre national de France.

Under Sony Classical he has recorded works by Debussy and Stravinsky with the Orchestre national de France and a DVD of the Parsifal staged at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Under the label RCO Live he has recently recorded Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, Mahler’s Second Symphony and a DVD of Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps together with Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune and La mer.

Rinaldo Alessandrini
is considered one of the leading experts in interpreting baroque works, however for several years he dedicated himself to the symphonic repertoire of the 18th and 19th century as well. Moreover, he is the founder and artistic director of the baroque ensemble, Concerto Italiano, which has been awarded with three Gramophone Awards.

Guesting at leading orchestras and festivals in Europe, the USA, Canada, and Japan, he has been working with orchestras e.g. in Detroit, San Francisco, and Washington, as well as with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, and the chamber orchestras in Basel und Geneva.

Recent opera highlights include L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Scala in Milan, Don Giovanni at the Royal Opéra de Wallonie and the Bergen Nasjonale Opera, Orlando at the Welsh National Opera and the Semper Opera Dresden, Nozze di Figaro and Orfeo ed Euridice at the Norske Opera in Oslo, Così fan tutte at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, as well as concerts with the Hamburg Symphonic Orchestra, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, the Deutsche Symphonieorchester, the Filarmonica Toscanini,and with the RIAS Kammerchor, where Alessandrini was Conductor in Residence in the season of 2015/16. Highlights with his early music ensemble, Concerto Italiano, in the season 2016/17 include concerts in Milan, Rome, Toulouse, Lisbon, Hamburg, a China tour, as well as the concertante performance of Monteverdi's 'L'incoronazione di Poppea at Carnegie Hall New York in February as closing concert and highlight of the "Serenissima" Festival.

Engagements in 2017/18 include another Japan tour with Concerto Italiano as well as concerts at the Purtimiro Festival in Lugo, in Frankfurt am Main with the hr-Sinfonieorchester, at the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe, in Grafenegg with the Tonkünstler-Orchester and the Arnold Schönberg Choir, a tour with the RIAS Kammerchor and the Akadamie für Alte Musik, as well as Purcell's Fairy Queen in concert.

Rinaldo Alessandrinis extensive discography includes mainly Italian and German repertoire. Numerous CD productions were awarded, e.g. with the Grand Prix du Disque, the Diapason d’Or, and the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Recently, recordings with Concerto Italiano with works of Monteverdi, Rossini, Vivaldi, as well as Bach’s Brandenburgische Konzerte were published. In 2018, Rinaldo Alessandrini will record a CD together with the star mandolinist, Julien Martineau and Concerto Italiano.

In addition to his activities as a conductor, Rinaldo Alessandrini also performs as an organist, cembalist, and pianist. He is a member of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana and was appointed chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2003. Furthermore, he is the artistic director of the Purtimiro Festival in Lugo, Italy.

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