The musical partnership of violinist Enrico Gatti and harpsichordist Rinaldo Alessandrini now goes back a number of decades to when this pair of Italians, both with a voracious appetite for early music, were setting out on their careers. The years passed and both artists made fabulous recordings, often directing their own ensembles. Now with the natty title of Cross-dressing Bach, these Baroque music chamber musicians par excellence have reunited to produce a fascinating sound essay in different scorings, or dressings, for a range of works by Johann Sebastian Bach - a composer who was ever revising and refining his works and whose musical output can never be tidied away neatly as "all considered and understood." As well as including alternative versions, this new recording revisits works with known scorings for other instruments and clothes them anew: there is a flute partita here, a pair of viola da gamba sonatas there. For all their affinity and interpretative skill with music from their own lands, this performance from Gatti and Alessandrini sees them clearly relishing rummaging in the never-ending supply of clothes from Bach's musical wardrobe. It is one joy to welcome Enrico Gatti once again on Glossa, another to greet Rinaldo Alessandrini for the first time.

Tracklist:

Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, Bwv 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti): I. Adagio
Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, Bwv 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti): II. Allegro
Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, Bwv 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti): III. Andante
Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, Bwv 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti): IV. Allegro
Flute Partita In A Minor, Bwv 1013 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti For Violin): I. Allemande
Flute Partita In A Minor, Bwv 1013 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti For Violin): II. Corrente
Flute Partita In A Minor, Bwv 1013 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti For Violin): III. Sarabande
Flute Partita In A Minor, Bwv 1013 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti For Violin): IV. Bourrée Anglaise
Keyboard Sonata In D Minor, Bwv 964 (After Bwv 1003): I. Grave
Keyboard Sonata In D Minor, Bwv 964 (After Bwv 1003): II. Fuga. Allegro
Keyboard Sonata In D Minor, Bwv 964 (After Bwv 1003): III. Andante
Keyboard Sonata In D Minor, Bwv 964 (After Bwv 1003): IV. Allegro
Trio In D Minor, Bwv 583 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti)
Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, Bwv 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti): I. Vivace
Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, Bwv 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti): II. Adagio
Viola Da Gamba Sonata In D Major, Bwv 1028 (Arr. R. Alessandrini & E. Gatti): III. Allegro
Fugue In G Minor, Bwv 1026

UPC: 8424562212107
Label: Glossa
Release Date: 5.4.18
Format: CD

J Bach S / Gatti / Alessandrini - Cross Dressing Bach (CD)