CORELLI: 6 CONCERTO GROSSI, OP. VI

CORELLI: 6 CONCERTO GROSSI, OP. VI

Transcription and orchestration by Giovanni Battista Columbro

Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op. 6. No. 4

Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op. 6. No. 1

Concerto Grosso in F Major, Op. 6. No. 9

Concerto Grosso in C Minor, Op. 6. No. 3

Concerto Grosso in C Major, Op. 6. No. 10

Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 6. No. 8

on original instruments

Drawing on the numerous transcriptions of Op. Six, in this new proposal, the instrumentation expands from strings alone to wind instruments. This presence should not seem alienating, as it is now well established that Corelli's orchestras included a significant presence of wind instruments. Unlike other transcriptions, our version leaves the original key intact and often assigns the two traversieri the roles originally assigned to the two solo violins, in keeping with a very common practice in the early eighteenth century.

On the wave of the transcriptions of opus VI, in this Album we employed wind instruments in addition to the strings. This choice is a philological one seeing that, after years of research it has been proven that in the Corellian orchestras there was a significant presence of wind instruments. In our version the original tonalities have been maintained (which does not often happen in other transcriptions) and the original parts of the two solo violins have been assigned to two transverse flutes as it happened in the first decades of the XVIII Century.

1 CD

Giovanni Battista Columbro, cross-beam I
Enrico Gramigna, violin I
Tommaso Simonetta Sandri, cross-country skier II
Jacopo Columbro, violin II
Giacomo Biagi, cello
Sofia Ferri, theorbo
Tatiani Romo Bocanegra, Lino Megni, violin
Marta Pizio, viola
Fabio Longo, violone
Yoan Otano, bassoon
Luigi Fontana, harpsichord
Eddy de Rossi, harp