Mario

Mario Brunello begins his collaboration with the Arcana label with a three-volume project: the “Bach Brunello Series”, in which he plays well-known pieces by Bach originally conceived for violin on the violoncello piccolo, an instrument Bach also used and appreciated.

To mark the 250th anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Tartini, Mario Brunello and the Accademia dell’Annunciata commemorate one of the great partnerships in the history of eighteenth-century music: the relationship between Tartini and Antonio Vandini, a cellist born in Bologna (cradle of the Italian cello school).

Praised a performer with “unconventional ludic drive” by the press and listed among Austria's thirty-five most outstanding researchers aged under thirty-five by the Austrian Science Fund in 2013, Mario Aschauer works as conductor, harpsichordist, and musicologist at the interface of music scholarship and performance.

After the success of their Tartini disc (Arcana 478, Diapason d'or, 5 stars from Musica), Mario Brunello and the Accademia dell'Annunciata return for an ingenious collection of six concertos, all of which are transcriptions of other works. Not only do we hear the keyboard arrangements of Venetian concertos such as Marcello's famous oboe concerto and Vivaldi's Violin Concerto RV230, but also reconstructed concertos by Bach such as those for oboe and oboe d'amore (BWV 1056 and 1055) and those that have come down to us in their original version — from the Violin Concerto BWV 1042 up to and including the renowned Concerto nach Italienischen Gusto BWV 971. The dialogue between the tutti and the solo passages in the latter work, only imagined in its keyboard version, here finds its full realisation in Riccardo Doni's brilliant transcription for piccolo cello and strings, supported here by the energy and passion of the Accademia dell'Annunciata.

‘4th DIMENSION’ is the last and probably greatest album ever recorded by Italian piano Maestro Mario Rusca.

Those attempting to describe Mario Rom’s INTERZONE seem to be looking constantly for superlatives. After a concert at the famed Rochester Jazz Festival in New York, the festival’s main critic declared that “I have yet to hear a group of musicians – anywhere – with a more serious sense of play

Mario Teaches Words | Mario Teaches Sums | Mario's Playschool:
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"Jangada" reveals once again the beauty and lyrism of Mário Laginha's music, one of the most celebrated artists in Portugal. The various origins of his musical influences are the trunks that form this Jangada, the first album that Mário Laginha edits with Edition Records in his own name.

Eine exaltierte Künstlerin wie Maria João prägt die Wahrnehmung. Mario Laginha brauchte eine Weile, um nicht mehr vorrangig als ihr Begleiter und Impulsgeber verstanden zu werden. Inzwischen ist der Pianist aus Lissabon aber einige Schritte weiter und stellt mit einem Trioalbum wie „Jangada“ seine Welt melodischer Eloquenz vor. Er ist kein kammerjazzender Tastenstreichler, auch keiner der launischen Dekonstrukteure der Neo-Avantgarde, sondern eher konservativ im Sinne gestaltender Sinnlichkeit.