Mario Brunello plays Johann Sebastian Bach in the tenth appointment with the concert season of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari. On Tuesday 1 April at 8:30 pm the protagonist will be the Venetian cellist, soloist, director, chamber musician and recent pioneer of new sounds with his cello piccolo, whose last performance at the Teatro Lirico dates back to February 2024.
The program includes the performance of: Sonata No. 2 in A minor for violin BWV 1003, Partita No. 3 in E major for violin BWV 1006, Sonata No. 3 in C major for violin BWV 1005 by Johann Sebastian Bach. The show has a total duration of approximately 75 minutes including interval.
Born in 1960, Mario Brunello is one of the most fascinating and sought-after artists of his generation. He was the first European to win the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1986. He has collaborated with the most important conductors and performed with the most prestigious orchestras. Mario Brunello's concert activity is very full of engagements both in Italy and abroad.
Mario Brunello plays a precious Maggini from the early seventeenth century, to which he has added the four-string cello piccolo in recent years. This instrument was widely used in the Baroque era, especially by Bach who included it in about ten cantatas. Mario Brunello's instrument, inspired by an Amati model now preserved in Cremona, is built in the typical violin tuning (E, A, D, G), but an octave lower, thus maintaining the depth and darker nuances typical of the cello. It is precisely these peculiarities that have prompted Mario Brunello to explore the musical masterpieces of the violin repertoire of Bach, Vivaldi, Tartini and their contemporaries.
(Online Union)
