Grandissima Gravita Rachel Podger Violin Brecon Baroque
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CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 39217 Grandissima Gravita pisendel tartini veracini vivaldi violin rachel podger brecon baroque Alison McGillivray cello Daniele Caminiti lute & guitar Marcin Świątkiewicz harpsichord Rachel Podger Edinburgh Inter national Festival with Brecon Baroque; solo recitals at Eindhoven, here is probably no more inspira- Trondheim Barokk, Fundación Juan March “Ttional musician working today than (Madrid), Ohrdruf and Weimar (Germany), Podger” (Gramophone). Rachel Podger, and Canary Islands; collaborations with “the queen of the baroque violin” (Sunday I Fagiolini and bbc now as well as broad- Times), has established herself as a leading casts on bbc Radio 3, continued educa- interpreter of the Baroque and Classical tional work at Juilliard and the Royal music periods. She was the first woman to Academy of Music, and a residency at be awarded the prestigious Royal Academy Wigmore Hall. of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize in Rachel has enjoyed countless collabora- October 2015. A creative programmer she tions as director and soloist with orchestras is the founder and Artistic Director of all over the world. Highlights include Brecon Baroque Festival and her ensemble Robert Levin, Jordi Savall, Masaaki Brecon Baroque, and was resident artist at Suzuki, The Academy of Ancient Music, Kings Place for their 2016 season Baroque The European Union Baroque Orchestra, Unwrapped. Rachel celebrates her 50th Holland Baroque Society, Tafelmusik birthday in 2018 with a much-anticipated (Toronto), The English Concert, and recording of Bach cello suites on violin, a within the usa the Philharmonia Baroque recording of Vivaldi Four Seasons, and an Orchestra, San Francisco Early Music, exciting and innovative collaboration with Berwick Academy, and the Oregon world-renowned a cappella group voces8, Bach Festival. ‘Guardian Angel’. Rachel records exclusively for Channel Recent concerts have included an exten- Classics with over 25 discs including the sive European recital tour of Mozart and complete Mozart Sonatas. Bach Art of Beethoven with Kristian Bezuidenhout, Fugue with Brecon Baroque was released also repeated for Boston Early Music in September 2016 to rave reviews “with Festival (usa). Additional engagements playing of this sophistication, the restricted include an inter national tour with The sound palette works wonderfully, support- Rachel Podger Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ing a calm, ruminative exploration of the (Musica Viva, Australia and Europe); many fugal devices” (The Guardian). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Rachel has won numerous awards in- Alison McGillivray cluding two Baroque Instrumental Gramo- phone Awards for La Stravaganza (2003) lison McGillivray was born and and Biber Rosary Sonatas (2016), the Dia- Abrought up in Glasgow. She studied pason d’Or de l’année in the Baroque En- cello at the Royal Scottish Academy of semble category for her recording of the Music and Drama with William Conway La Cetra Vivaldi concertos (2012), a bbc and at the Royal Academy of Music with Music Magazine award in the instrumental Jennifer Ward Clarke. She has recorded category for Guardian Angel (2014), and Geminiani’s Op. 5 Cello Sonatas (Linn multiple Diapasons d’Or. The complete Records) and cpe Bach’s Cello Concerto Vivaldi L’Estro Armonico concertos was in A major with the English Concert (Har- released in 2015 with her own ensemble monia Mundi usa). She was principal cello Brecon Baroque and has received critical with the English Concert and The Academy acclaim, winning the concerto category of Ancient Music, and plays with Concerto of bbc Music Magazine Awards 2016 Caledonia, Concordia, The Early Opera and was shortlisted for a Gramophone Company and The Bach Players. During Award (2015). 2000 she played cello and viol in John Eliot She is a dedicated educator and Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage. She holds an honorary member of both is professor of baroque cello at the Royal the Royal Academy of Music, where she Scottish Academy of Music and Drama holds the Micaela Comberti Chair for and at the Guildhall School of Music and Baroque Violin (founded in 2008), and Drama. She also helps to run Katherine the Royal Welsh College of Music and McGillivray’s Get a Life Fund, a charity Drama, where she holds the Jane Hodge to fund sabbaticals for musicians. Foundation International Chair in Baroque Violin. She also has a developing relationship with The Juilliard School Daniele Caminiti in New York. aniele Caminiti was born in Sicily. Alison McGillivray & Daniele Caminiti DHe graduated in classical guitar at the ‘Conservatorio’ in Pescara and studied [ 4 ] [ 5 ] for three years with Oscar Ghiglia at the Marcin Świątkiewicz Music Academy in Basel (Switzerland), where he obtained a Concert Diploma with arcin Świątkiewicz is one of the the honor ‘excellent’. As a soloist he has Mforemost Polish harpsichord players, won many prizes in various national and appreciated equally in solo and chamber international competitions. He has dedi- music repertoire and known for his inven- cated himself to the study of early music tive basso continuo realisations. He is a played on historical instruments such as the versatile musician whose interest is directed renaissance lute, archlute, theorbo, baroque towards historical keyboard instruments, and romantic guitar. He studied with Peter improvisation and composition. Croton at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, He is the finalist of the 1st International where he also worked for several years as Volkonsky Harpsichord Competition in an accompanist. Moscow (2010) and 4th International Tele- His busy schedule includes perform- mann Competition in Magdeburg (2007). ing as a soloist as well as a chamber musi- In 2016, Marcin won a ‘Paszport Polityki’ cian in high-profile ensembles and orches- award in the Classical music category. tras, often playing with renowned artists, Marcin’s discography includes solo, such as Andrea Marcon, Ottavio Dantone, chamber, and orchestral recordings for la- Rubén Dubrovsky, Michael Hofstetter, bels such as Channel Classics, Decca, Linn Christian Curnyn, Attilio Cremonesi, Records. He has collaborated with Rachel Enrico Onofri, Chiara Banchini, Julia Podger, Brecon Baroque, Arte Dei Suona- Schröder, Rachel Podger, Marc Hantaï, tori, Capella Cracoviensis, among others. Maurice Steger, Sergio Azzolini, Antonio Marcin holds a phd from the Karol Politano, Alfredo Bernardini, Jesper Szymanowski Academy of Music in Christensen, Jörg- Andreas Bötticher, Katowice, Poland, where he currently Pierre-André Taillard, Cecilia Bartoli, teaches. He obtained his Master’s degree Bernarda Fink, Veronica Cangemi, Maria from the Royal Conservatoire in The Cristina Kiehr and Andreas Scholl. Hague, The Netherlands, where he studied both harpsichord and composition. Marcin Świątkiewicz [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Rachel Podger Radio 3 cd Review, hr2 Kultur (Germany) and Brecon Baroque and wqxr (New York). The group’s third disc, a complete recording of Vivaldi “Rachel Podger’s crack team deliver L’Estro Armonico concertos was Record miracles of virtuosity” of the Month for both the bbc Music (The Observer). Magazine and Gramophone Magazine, was awarded a Diapason d’Or, and won he dynamic ensemble Brecon Baroque the 2016 bbc Music Magazine Concerto Tconsists of an international line-up Award. Biber Rosary Sonatas won the 2016 of some of the leading lights in the period- Baroque Instrumental Gramophone Award. instrument world, including cellist Alison Bach Art of Fugue, their latest disc, was McGillivray, violist Jane Rogers, harpsi- released in September 2016. Upcoming chordist Marcin Świątkiewicz, violinist recordings include Vivaldi Four Seasons Johannes Pramsohler, and lutenist Daniele (2017), and solo Bach (2018) in celebration Caminiti. The ensemble specialises in of Rachel’s 50th birthday. mainly one-to-a-part performances but Upcoming performances include the also appears as a small baroque orchestra Edinburgh International Festival, Brecon for Vivaldi, Telemann, Purcell and Handel. Baroque Festival, European and uk tours Rachel and Brecon Baroque’s debut cd, of Vivaldi L’Estro Armonico Concertos, Bach Violin Concertos, attracted universal Bach Art of Fugue, and Vivaldi Four critical acclaim and was quickly hailed as a Seasons. Recent highlights include tours benchmark recording of these works. Bach of continental Europe, Japan and a uk tour Double and Triple Concertos, was released of Mid Wales Opera’s Acis and Galatea to rave reviews in 2013 including cd of in a collaboration with the Royal Welsh the week nominations for Classic fm, bbc College of Music and Drama. Brecon Baroque [ 8 ] [ 9 ] GRANDISSIMA GRAVITA you met Johann Sebastian? I never had Padua. I found sanctuary in the monastery the pleasure of meeting him in the flesh, of St Francis in Assisi. It was there where even though Bach regularly transcribed my love for the violin was rekindled. av: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) But what a cheeky clever devil – waiting my music. I emerged from Assisi determined to make gt: Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) till 1700 to publish his Opus 5, as if to jgp: I left Ansbach in March 1709 a career in music. So naturally I moved fmv: Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768) open the new century with his new music. to begin my studies at the university in to Venice, and it was there in 1716 that jgp: Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755) fmv: Corelli’s salesmanship was indeed Leipzig. It was on the journey there that I first heard our Francesco perform. Upon stunning. It took me 23 years from the I met Bach in Weimar.