There is always poetry as well as virtuosity coursing through Enrico Gatti’s violin playing, and nowhere more so than when he turns to Italian early Baroque music, as here in Mille consigli with his Ensemble Aurora: the album title reflecting the multiplicity of emotional ideas and colours possible in violin music from this time (Gatti’s earlier recordings of similar music have recently been re-released by Glossa as L’arte del violino in Italia).
Each of the other members of Ensemble Aurora – Elena Bianchi on dulcian, Gabriele Palomba on theorbo and Fabio Ciofini on the organ – also get their own opportunity to display their talents in a joyous and warm exploration of Sonatas, Toccatas and similar music written by composers such as Castello, Legrenzi, Merula, Fontana and Michelangelo Rossi in the first half of the 17th century.