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.

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Tracklist

01 - Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 I. Adagio.flac 10.70 MB
02 - Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 II. Allegro.flac 22.24 MB
03 - Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 III. Andante.flac 24.06 MB
04 - Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 IV. Allegro.flac 24.61 MB
05 - Flute Partita in A Minor, BWV 1013 I. Allemande.flac 25.11 MB
06 - Flute Partita in A Minor, BWV 1013 II. Corrente.flac 14.27 MB
07 - Flute Partita in A Minor, BWV 1013 III. Sarabande.flac 19.10 MB
08 - Flute Partita in A Minor, BWV 1013 IV. Bourree anglaise.flac 9.56 MB
09 - Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, BWV 964 (After BWV 1003) I. Grave.flac 16.66 MB
10 - Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, BWV 964 (After BWV 1003) II. Fuga. Allegro.flac 46.78 MB
11 - Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, BWV 964 (After BWV 1003) III. Andante.flac 22.99 MB
12 - Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, BWV 964 (After BWV 1003) IV. Allegro.flac 21.85 MB
13 - Trio in D Minor, BWV 583.flac 25.88 MB
14 - Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 I. Vivace.flac 33.86 MB
15 - Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 II. Adagio.flac 30.30 MB
16 - Viola da gamba Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 III. Allegro.flac 22.25 MB
17 - Fugue in G Minor, BWV 1026.flac 30.04 MB