Tracing The Roots of Counterpoint
Bach, J S:
The Art of Fugue, BWV1080: Contrapunctus IV
Castello:
Sinfonia XV per Stromenti d arco
Corelli:
Fuga a Quattro voci, Op. postuma (Anh. 15)
Frescobaldi:
Christe II
Toccata Cromaticha per le levatione
Lasso:
La nuit froide et sombre
Mozart:
Adagio & Fugue in C minor for Strings, K546
String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K387 'Spring'
Palestrina:
Kyrie (from Missa Papae Marcelli)
La ver l’aurora
Rosenmüller:
Sonata VII a 4
Ensemble Aurora, Enrico Gatti
Enrico Gatti’s eighth recording for the Arcana label, and the debut album by his Ensemble Aurora in the role of string quartet, is without a doubt the most original of his discography. The result of years of research and discoveries, On The Shoulders of Giants is an exciting journey back to the roots of string quartet writing and counterpoint: from Renaissance tablatures to Mozart’s famous String Quartet in G major KV387, the first of the ‘Haydn’ Quartets, by way of Dario Castello, Johann Rosenmuller, Johann Sebastian Bach (the fourth counterpoint from The Art of Fugue) and the inevitable Corelli (Fuga a Quattro voci): a concentration of beautiful music, with a programme that encompasses different periods but with a clear main theme, which Enrico Gatti describes so well in his authoritative liner notes.
