Bianchelli: Cantate e arie

ArsEmble, Marcella Ventura, Gilberto Ceranto, Alex Callegati, Ettore Marchi, Antonello Manzo, Maria Elena Ceccarelli, Roberto Cascio, Antonio Verderi (soundeditor), Santina Tomasello

This world premiere recording by ArsEmble is focused on the rediscovery of the seventeenth-century composer from Rimini, Mario Bianchelli, an amateur instrumentalist (belonging to a noble and wealthy family, and therefore without the need to practice the musical profession for living) formed at the Collegio dei Nobili in the city of Parma, managed by the Jesuit fathers. The young Bianchelli excelled there in the study of the guitar, the lute and the harpsichord. His activity as a composer was widespread and renowned, and this production is dedicated to the manuscript chamber cantatas preserved in the Gambalunga library in Rimini, one of the richest and most important public libraries in Italy. The concertation of the cantatas is by Roberto Cascio, protagonist of many productions within the Tactus catalog (TC650770, Ippolito Ghezzi; TC520003 La historia del Beato Martino; TC640001, Il Seicento Italiano “alla Spagnuola”; TC660005, Baruffe Amorose del Settecento).

Mario Bianchelli (1660-1730)