Giulia Nuti & Chiara Zanisi - Bach: Sei suonate à cembalo certato è violino solo (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

The violinist Chiara Zanisi works with the finest early music ensembles, notably the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman, with whom she has just finished a long tour performing the Six Brandenburg Concertos. She now devotes her first solo recording to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin. Alongside her is Giulia Nuti, among the most brilliant harpsichordists and scholars in Italy, whose solo CD Les Sauvages: Harpsichords in pre-Revolutionary Paris (DHM) won a Diapason d’Or, among other awards. The kernel from which this project grew is their strongly shared idea that, in addition to great stylistic richness and invention, Bach’s music possesses an aura of magic and an almost divine form. Thus, in this valuable and elegant reading, it is clearly their intention to underline in the simplest way the grandeur of the writing. Even the choice of sound aesthetic, beautifully realised under the supervision of Fabio Framba, opts for the ‘real’ with a ‘pure’, ‘speaking’ sound, warm and full of harmonics. The attractions of this precious version of the Six Sonatas, played on a G. Gagliano violin of 1761 and a harpsichord by K. Hill, are enhanced by a bonus track: the Cantabile, un poco Adagio from the early version of Sonata VI in G major.

TRACKLIST

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Sonata No. 1 for Violin & Harpsichord in B Minor, BWV 1014
1 Sonata No. 1 for Violin & Harpsichord in B Minor, BWV 1014: I. Adagio 03:21
2 Sonata No. 1 for Violin & Harpsichord in B Minor, BWV 1014: II. Allegro 02:57
3 Sonata No. 1 for Violin & Harpsichord in B Minor, BWV 1014: III. Andante 03:13
4 Sonata No. 1 for Violin & Harpsichord in B Minor, BWV 1014: IV. Allegro 03:22

Sonata No. 2 for Violin & Harpsichord in A Major, BWV 1015
5 Sonata No. 2 for Violin & Harpsichord in A Major, BWV 1015: I. Dolce 02:41
6 Sonata No. 2 for Violin & Harpsichord in A Major, BWV 1015: II. Allegro 03:08
7 Sonata No. 2 for Violin & Harpsichord in A Major, BWV 1015: III. Andante un poco 03:28
8 Sonata No. 2 for Violin & Harpsichord in A Major, BWV 1015: IV. Presto 04:17

Sonata No. 3 for Violin & Harpsichord in E Major, BWV 1016
9 Sonata No. 3 for Violin & Harpsichord in E Major, BWV 1016: I. Adagio 03:37
10 Sonata No. 3 for Violin & Harpsichord in E Major, BWV 1016: II. Allegro 03:00
11 Sonata No. 3 for Violin & Harpsichord in E Major, BWV 1016: III. Adagio ma non tanto 04:39
12 Sonata No. 3 for Violin & Harpsichord in E Major, BWV 1016: IV. Allegro 03:43

Sonata No. 4 for Violin & Harpsichord in C Minor, BWV 1017
13 Sonata No. 4 for Violin & Harpsichord in C Minor, BWV 1017: I. Siciliano: Largo 04:09
14 Sonata No. 4 for Violin & Harpsichord in C Minor, BWV 1017: II. Allegro 04:22
15Sonata No. 4 for Violin & Harpsichord in C Minor, BWV 1017: III. Adagio 02:47
16 Sonata No. 4 for Violin & Harpsichord in C Minor, BWV 1017: IV. Allegro 04:32

Sonata No. 5 for Violin & Harpsichord in F Minor, BWV 1018
17 Sonata No. 5 for Violin & Harpsichord in F Minor, BWV 1018: I. (Adagio) 05:43
18 Sonata No. 5 for Violin & Harpsichord in F Minor, BWV 1018: II. Allegro 04:39
19 Sonata No. 5 for Violin & Harpsichord in F Minor, BWV 1018: III. Adagio 03:08
20 Sonata No. 5 for Violin & Harpsichord in F Minor, BWV 1018: IV. Vivace 02:40

Sonata No. 6 for Violin & Harpsichord in G Major, BWV 1019
21 Sonata No. 6 for Violin & Harpsichord in G Major, BWV 1019: I. Allegro 03:23
22 Sonata No. 6 for Violin & Harpsichord in G Major, BWV 1019: II. Largo 01:49
23 Sonata No. 6 for Violin & Harpsichord in G Major, BWV 1019: III. Allegro (Cembalo Solo) 04:32
24 Sonata No. 6 for Violin & Harpsichord in G Major, BWV 1019: IV. Adagio 03:07
25 Sonata No. 6 for Violin & Harpsichord in G Major, BWV 1019: V. Allegro 03:18
26 Sonata No. 6 for Violin and Harpsichord in G Major, BWV 1019a: I. Cantabile, ma un poco adagio 06:12

PERSONNEL
Chiara Zanisi, violin
Giulia Nuti, harpsichord