BORLETTI-BUITONI TRUST MUSICIANS IN THE STUDIO
BBT supports its young award winners in many ways, one of the most popular being a recording. Negotiations with Rubicon Classics have resulted in these projects for 2019.
Alessio Pianelli. Photo Francesco Ferla
ALESSIO PIANELLI cello
(BBT Fellowship 2018)
Label: Rubicon Classics
Title: Alessio Pianelli – A Sicilian Traveller
Artists: Avos Chamber Orchestra, Alessio Pianelli (cello/director)
Repertoire:
Samuel Coleridge Taylor – Deep River, Pilgrim’s Song
Nikos Skalkottas – Five Greek Dances
Bela Bartók – Romanian Dances
Sulkhan Tsinstadze – Miniatures
Komitas – Armenian Miniatures
Alessio Pianelli – Variation on a Sicilian Theme
Recording date: November 2019 in Rome
Proposed release date: November 2020
The society, architecture, art and music of Sicily are the result of many centuries of immigrants who have put down roots and contributed to the rich culture of this magical kingdom. Pianelli explores his Sicilian roots by taking an exploratory journey, comparing the culture and folk music of his native Sicily with those of Africa, Georgia, Greece, Armenia, and Romania.
TRIO ISIMSIZ piano trio
(BBT Fellowship 2018)
Label: Rubicon Classics
Repertoire:
Schubert – Notturno in E flat
Fauré – Piano Trio
Brahms – Piano Trio No.1 in B Op.8
Recording date: November 2019 in the UK
Proposed release date: Spring 2020
Trio Isimsiz. Photo Kaupo Kikkas
Eivind Ringstad. Photo Nikolaj Lund
EIVIND RINGSTAD viola
(BBT Fellowship 2016)
Label: Rubicon Classics
Title: Correspondances
Artists: Eivind Ringstad (viola) David Meier (piano)
Repertoire:
Arthur Benjamin – Sonata for viola and piano
Peder Barratt-Due – Correspondances (Duo for viola and piano)
Hindemith – Sonata for viola and piano Op 11 No 4
Enescu – Concert piece for viola and piano
Vieuxtemps – Elegy for viola and piano
Ysaÿe – Caprice d’après l’Etude en forme de Valse de C. Saint-Saëns
Recording date: October 2019 in the UK
Proposed release date: October 2020
These important masterworks for the viola that show this Norwegian violist’s versatility and virtuosity. The Ysaÿe has not been recorded before and the Barratt-Due was commissioned specially for Eivind (by the BBC when he was a New Generation Artist) and premiered at the Edinburgh Festival. Eivind is the first violist to be signed by Rubicon and plays the G.B.Guadagnini ‘ex-Vieuxtemps’ viola 1768 that Henry Vieuxtemps himself played.