• New Music from Duo Acquavella with Bach Collegium San Diego

    Gimo-Samling; 18th Century Sonatas and Triosonatas for Mandolin

    Detmold, Germany — Duo Acquavella presents their new release, along with the Bach Collegium San Diego, on Centaur Records, titled Gimo-Samling: 18th Century Sonatas and Triosonatas for Mandolin.

    The new release will be available in the USA, Canada and digitally world-wide on March 11, 2016. World-wide release dates will be announced by individual countries. Pre-order sales are available now.

    Works on this album include compositions by Gioacchino Cocchi, Giovanni Battista Gervasio, and Emanuele Barbella, as well as a trio sonata with unknown composer. Duo Acquavella is Chris Acquavella and Dr. Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch. Founded in 1976, Centaur Records, Inc. is one of the oldest and largest independent classical labels in the U.S. Centaur recordings are available in major markets throughout the world.

    The world is full of music that hardly anybody has heard in centuries. Once successful and sought after, it was forgotten when musical taste and fashion changed. Duo Acquavella and the Bach Collegium San Diego invite you to join them on a journey back in time. Discover the world of the late 1750s and early 1760s and listen to trio sonatas, solo sonatas and duos composed for the once highly fashionable instrument, the mandolin.

    The music on the CD survived as part of the Gimo-Samling (Gimo-Collection) that is now to be found in the Biblioteca Rediviva in Uppsala (Sweden). The Gimo-Samling is an example for the common practice of acquiring music when a gentleman went on his grand tour in the middle of the 18th century. In this very special case the collection survived over centuries and gives us an insight into the musical taste and repertoire of the time.

    Apart from forming business relationships the son of a Swedish merchant named Jean Lefebure and his companion Bengt Ferrner took an active part in cultural life while touring Europe between 1758 and 1763. The selections on Duo Acquavella's new release is the product of that gentleman's European tour.

    Listen

    From the recording, Sinfonia for due mandolini e basso, Gimo 149 - mvt. 1: Allegro Spiritoso by Giovanni Battista Gervasio (c. 1725-1785).



    Track Listing

    • GIOACCHINO COCCHI ( 1712–1796)
    Sinfonia a due mandolini e basso Gimo 76
    1. Allegro assai
    2. Largo
    3. Allegro
    • GIOVANNI BATTISTA GERVASIO (c. 1725–1785)
    Sinfonia a due mandolini e basso Gimo 149
    4. Allegro spiritoso
    5. Larghetto
    6. Allegro assai spiritoso
    • EMANUELE BARBELLA (1718–1777)
    Sonata a due mandolini e basso Gimo 18=19
    7. Allegro
    8. Largo
    9. Allegro
    • GIOVANNI BATTISTA GERVASIO (c. 1725–1785)
    Sonata in C Major Gimo 141
    10. Allegro
    11. Largo
    12. Allegro
    • GIOVANNI BATTISTA GERVASIO (c. 1725–1785)
    Trio a due mandolini e basso Gimo 150
    13. Allegro e custoso assai
    14. Largo
    15. Allegro all Prussiana
    • GIOVANNI BATTISTA GERVASIO (c. 1725–1785)
    Sonata per camera di mandolino e basso Gimo 142=143
    16. Allegro
    17. Larghetto grazioso
    18. Allegro
    • ANONYMOUS
    Trio a due mandolini e basso Gimo 359
    19. Allegro
    20. Largo
    21. Allegro
    • EMANUELE BARBELLA (1718–1777)
    Duetto a due mandolini Gimo 13
    22. Larghetto e staccato
    23. Allegretto
    24. Minuetto all Francese
    25. Gavotta

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