Luigi Piovano & Archi di Santa Cecilia - Mozart: Divertimenti & Eine kleine Nachtmusik (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

The Arcana label continues its fruitful collaboration with the Archi di Santa Cecilia, the Rome-based ensemble formed from members of the famous Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. The ensemble is conducted by Luigi Piovano, the orchestra’s principal cellist and since 2007 a regular partner in a cello-piano duo with Sir Antonio Pappano, its chief conductor (their recording of the Brahms cello sonatas will be released later this year). The Archi di Santa Cecilia now offer us a brand new recording devoted to Mozart: the famous Serenade Eine kleine Nachtmusik K525 and the less familiar but equally brilliant Divertimenti K136, K137 and K138.

The combination of such luminous music and the virtuoso skill of the players is bound to elicit enormous enthusiasm. Their previous recording of the Tchaikovsky and Dvořák Serenades met with outstanding acclaim, leading Janos Gardonyi in the Canadian magazine The Whole Note to describe the relationship between Piovano and his group in the following terms: ‘I imagine the orchestra moves with him and his every gesture. A tremendous rapport, like hypnosis, that only a Gergiev, Ozawa, Solti or the great Karajan could muster.’

Tracklist:
01. Divertimento in D Major K.136: I. Allegro
02. Divertimento in D Major K .136: II. Andante
03. Divertimento in D Major K .136: II. Presto
04. Divertimento in B-Flat Major K.137: I.Andante
05. Divertimento in B-Flat Major K.137: II. Allegro di molto
06. Divertimento in B-Flat Major K.137: III .Allegro assai
07. Divertimento in F Major K.138: I . Allegro
08. Divertimento in F Major K.138: II. Andante
09. Divertimento in F Major K.138: III. Presto
10. Serenade in G Major Eine kleine Nachtmusik K.525: I. Allegro
11. Serenade in G Major Eine kleine Nachtmusik K.525: II. Romance (Andante)
12. Serenade in G Major Eine kleine Nachtmusik K.525: III. Menuetto (Allegretto)
13. Serenade in G Major Eine kleine Nachtmusik K.525: IV. Rondo (Allegro)