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IL-SUONAR-PARLANTEIl Suonar Parlante.This expression, invented by Nicolò Paganini, is referred to a special sound emission technique by which musical instruments can really imitate the human voice. This technique has survived in certain marginal European and extra-European areas and is essential for a new interpretation of our ancient musical patrimony. Since ten years the collaboration between some musicians, leaded by Vittorio Ghielmi, is bringing to the revival of this sound image by means of artistic productions, seminars, congresses and collection of documents. Vittorio Ghielmi, with is work as soloist, has given a new image to the sound of his instrument, being recognized as one of the most outstanding gamba players.
The viols consort is the core of the group, founded on the collaboration of four gamba soloist: Vittorio Ghielmi, Rodney Prada, Fahmi Alqhai and Cristiano Contadin.
After two Cd, with the name Quartetto Italiano di viole da gamba, one dedicated to J.S. Bach preludes to the chorals, with the Tölzer Knabenchor (Winter&Winter, 2000), and a second in collaboration with the American jazz pianist Uri Caine (Goldberg Variation) the ensemble changes and with the new name Il Suonar Parlante is invited to play in important classical festivals as well as with jazz players such as Uri Caine, Kenny Wheeler, Don Byron, Markus Stockhausen, Ernst Rejiseger etc., who write new compositions for the gamba group.
In 2007 Il Suonar Parlante, in his large formation, has been orchestra in residence for the 46th Semana de Musica Religiosa de Cuenca, Madrid, where in an enlarged setting (thirty-five musicians) and accompanied by the Swedish choir Rilke Ensemblen (G. Eriksson) has been protagonist of the world première of a big spectacle around Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, with the American movie maker Marc Reshovsky.
Il Suonar Parlante recorded his last productions for the Munich record company Winter&Winter. The Cd with the jazz cello player Ernst Rejiseger published in March 2006 (Full of Colour) being recognized as «an absolute revolution for the sound of ancient instruments» (Diapason d’or, Choc du Monde de la Musique, Preis des Deutsches Schallplatten). Further releases Purcell Fantasias (2008), Die Kunst der Fuge with Lorenzo Ghielmi (2009). A cd with title Barbarische Schönheit, dedicated to the concerto for viola da gamba and orchestra (Graun, Telemann, Tartini), with Dorothée Oberlinger and the bohemian cymbalon virtuoso Marcel Comendant, will appear in Fall 2011 for the label Passacaille.