Concerts 2024

 

  

The Italian Baroque Sonata

Alberto Vitolo,   Shoulder cello

Mirco Roverelli,  Piano

*First ever performances of the Shoulder Cello on Italian territory

Program

Alessandro Scarlatti 

Sonata n.1 for cello and piano

Domenico Scarlatti     

Sonate K 9/K 64 in Re minore

Benedetto Marcello     

Sonata n.2 for cello and piano

Domenico Scarlatti      

Sonate K 202/K 322 in A major

Antonio Vivaldi       

Sonata KV 43 n.3 for cello and piano

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday 26 May hours 19

St.Andrew’s Church of Scotland, Rome – Scottish Church

Via XX Settembre 7, 00187 Rome

Tickets up: Classictic – Eventbrite – Billetto – OOOH Events (or on site while places last)

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Notes on the Shoulder Cello

'Between the 17th century. and the first half of the 18th century, the Shoulder Cello it was a popular instrument among violinists, if only for the extension of opportunities it offered them.

They used it to play the bass line, accompaniments and also solo obligatory parts. Composers wrote sonatas and concertos for this instrument or that could be played on it and it was widely used as an obligatory instrument in church or chamber cantata arias.

Northern Italian cellists/violinists traveled all over Europe. In Catalonia they left their traces Caldara, Bononcini and Dall'Abaco. The violinist, solo cellist and researcher Diana Roche of Barcelona is carrying out research into a vast production of church cantatas by Catalan composers who regularly employed the five-string cello piccolo in solo and obligatory parts between the late 17th and mid-18th centuries.

We still have some instruments in museums that are very similar to the cello da shoulder that we use today. Those built by Johann Christian Hoffman, friend and luthier of Johann Sebastian Bach, they are only the most famous and relevant. We have information on five of these instruments: unfortunately two were lost during the war. Of those that still exist today, one is in Leipzig, one in Brussels and one in Berkeley. One of these five appears in the inventory at the death of Carl Philip Emanuel Bach, and another was owned by the Thomaskantor until the Second World War'.

Daniela Gaidano

*M° Vitolo plays an instrument by Master Luthier Alessandro Visintini

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July 2024 (dates and program to be defined)

Vivaldi Sacred and Profane

 

Ensemble ArchinCanto

Valentina Varriale, soprano

Margherita Tani, contralto

Mirco Roverelli, piano

Emilia Nigro, Clare Politano, Ludovica Simeoli, Cochise Gozzer – violins

Giovanni Nigro, viola

Alberto Vitolo, shoulder cello and concert master