Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Divertimento N.7 , K. 205
1. Largo-Allegro
2. Menuetto
3. Adagio
4. Menuetto
5. Finale (presto)

A. Riccardo Luciani (1931)
Concerto di Anacrò
6. Introduzione e Allegro
7. Canzone notturna
8. Filastrocche e danze anacronesi

David Bellugi : recorders
Tiziano Mealli : pianoforte
Davide Mazzei : percussions

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1705)
9. Battalia
Sonata, Die liederliche Gesellschaft von allerley Humor, Presto, Der Mars, Presto,
Aria, Schlacht, Lamento der Verwundten Musquetirer.

Andrea Perugi : harpsichord

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in Do maggiore per flautino, archi e b.c. F.VI N.4
10. Allegro
11. Largo
12. Allegro molto

David Bellugi : flautino (sopranino recorder)
Andrea Perugi : harpsichord

I consider Piero Bellugi to be not only one of my best friends, but also my favorite "playmate" in the "game" of music. For both of us a mother-pianist taught us this most intriguing of all games. Assembling and disassembling this wonderful "toy" became one of our most frequent sports that developped in the conviction that music is a project in communication, and as such can be narrated (composed, performed, interpreted...) with all of its interwining inner forces. The Orchestra del Chianti project (as well as this first CD recording) represents different aspects of our "game". The choice of repertoire for this recording reveals some of its "rules": curious relationships, dedications...
Thus, BIBER dedicated his Battalia to Bacchus, god of wine, perhaps an abstraction intended to soothe his cynical attitudes towards war and death. A masterpiece of baroque histrionics, Battalia uses an armament of special effects: nine tunes played together in complete dissonance like a group of drunkards; the placement of a piece of paper between the strings of the double bass to imitate the sound of a military drum roll; Bartok-style pizzicati to sound like a cannon fire.
MOZART, certainly the most playful af all composers, wrote his Divertimento for a garden party in Vienna. Couldn't it also be for the vintage feast in a Chianti caste?
LUCIANI dedicated the Concerto di Anacrò to David Bellugi and his family of recorders. Anacrò is an immaginary place, a timeless country governed by musical laws.
VIVALDI's concerto is our dedication to the ambiguous candor and illusory simplicity of the virtuoso.

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