Enrico Gatti, violinista italiano procedente de la región de Umbría y alumno de Chiara Banchini y Sigiswald Kuijken, tiene una intensa actividad concertística que lo ha llevado por toda Europa, Canadá, Estados Unidos, Sudamérica, Japón y Australia.
Ha colaborado con La Petite Bande, Ensemble 415, Concerto Palatino, Hespèrion XX y La Real Cámara, entre otros grupos, y ha sido primer violín con Les Arts Florissants, Les Talens Lyriques, Taverner Players o The King’s Consort, y con los directores Gustav Leonhardt y Ton Koopman.
A pesar de contar con una impresionante discografía de música italiana para violín, que incluye figuras mayúsculas como Corelli, Veracini y Tartini (editada en una variedad de sellos y a menudo premiada internacionalmente), no ha sido hasta hace poco que Enrico Gatti ha afrontado la grabación de música de Vivaldi, seleccionando para esta ruptura de su “silencio” de dos décadas las sonatas de los opus 1 y opus 2 del prete rosso, producciones editadas en Glossa tras su debut en el sello con el oratorio La Susanna de Alessandro Stradella. Enrico Gatti es el director del Ensemble Aurora.
Uno de los elementos fundamentales en la vida profesional de Enrico Gatti es la docencia, que ejerce principalmente como profesor de violín barroco en el Real Conservatorio de La Haya y en Novara. Pero también es invitado con frecuencia a los Conservatorios de París, Lyon, Madrid, Ámsterdam o Utrecht, a la Hochschule für Musik de Trossingen, a la University of British Columbia, la Universidad de Salamanca o la Accademia Musicale Chigiana de Siena. Asimismo, ha dado cursos magistrales en Urbino, Erice, Venecia, Barbaste, Spa y Béjar.
The spirit of improvisation – when addressing music from the Baroque era – is as important for a long-established artist on Glossa, such as violinist Enrico Gatti, as it is for new arrivals Fahmi Alqhai, Josetxu Obregón and Enrike Solinís. Gatti, who has recorded music by Vivaldi and Bach for the label with his Ensemble Aurora (as well as joining Emilio Moreno in music from the Age of Enlightenment from Spain), has a distinct predilection for Italian repertory from the 17th century (including music by his beloved Corelli). His new disc, with the suggestive title, Mille consigli, explores the early part of that century – with sonatas, toccatas, chiaconas and canzonas by the likes of Castello, Fontana, Bertoli, Legrenzi, Merula, Uccellini. The choice of repertory allows Gatti’s violin to take flight and his artistry and experience add a crucial poetic, vocal element which brings the music fully alive for the 21st century. [read more...]
Despite an impressive track record of Italian violin music, one that covers major figures like Corelli, Veracini and Tartini, Enrico Gatti has only recently turned to the question of recording Vivaldi.
This Umbrian is a keen defender of Italian cultural values and their modern representation aided by active research. So he has somewhat been repelled by recent ‘fast and furious’ trends in the playing of Vivaldi – his booklet essay for this new Glossa recording gives further vent to his feelings on this subject – and it is only now that he as broken a 20 year recording ‘silence’ on the subject of the Red Priest. [read more...]