{"id":2159,"date":"2020-05-22T16:40:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maurovalli.com\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2020-05-22T16:42:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:42:14","slug":"english-bbc-music-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maurovalli.com\/en\/english-bbc-music-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Music Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"
Fri. 22.05.2020<\/strong> 16:40
<\/div>

Suspend the memory of your go-to recording of Bach\u2019s Cello Suites and entertain the idea of a performance given in C\u00f6then by a visiting Italian. In this guise Mauro Valli\u2019s interpretation cascades with the splendour of the Italian style; no repeat is left unadorned and small gestures are as vivid as the emotions frozen in Bernini\u2019s sculptures. But also imagine that Bach\u2019s contemporary performer had visited Paris and you arrive at Valli\u2019s reading, because the French movements shimmer with the gleam of Versailles.<\/p>\n

They may seem unlikely bed fellows, but Bach\u2019s Suites follow the key structure of five out of six of Domenico Gabrielli\u2019s dramatic Ricercari for solo cello (likely the first un accompanied works for the instrument). Programmed together, Valli promotes a dialogue of technique and invention \u2013 from increased use of both scordatura (de rigueur<\/em> in Bologna) and the five-string violon cello piccolo, to a reconciled pitch [A=465] that results in Bach\u2019s suites raised to a luminous Italian disposition.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a closely-miked recording, but the generous acoustic at Z\u00fcrich\u2019s Kirche Neum\u00fcnster encourages Valli\u2019s chosen textures and sense of poise: for instance his reading of Bach\u2019s Second Prelude \u2013 hugely rhetorical and increasingly ornamented until the final bars eschew the usual treatment of broken arpeggios in favour of fizzing Italianate invention. If some times the dances muse rather than take off, the sudden dissonance of an un expectedly unadorned sarabande stops you in your tracks. For all the detail, Valli wears his scholarship lightly and his conviction is catching \u2013 reminding us that notions of authenticity are far from tied to a single time and place.<\/p>\n

Hannah French<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fri. 22.05.2020 16:40Suspend the memory of your go-to recording of Bach\u2019s Cello Suites and entertain the idea of a performance given … Continue reading “BBC Music Magazine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recensioni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurovalli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurovalli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurovalli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurovalli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurovalli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maurovalli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161,"href":"https:\/\/maurovalli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurovalli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurovalli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurovalli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}