Bassano: Ricercata Sesta - Marco Scorticati, recorder

Giovanni Bassano (1558-1617)
Ricercata Sesta
from: «Ricercate, passaggi et cadentie ... Venetia, 1585»

Marco Scorticati, recorder
Alto recorder in g by Pietro Sopranzi (a=466 Hz)

Audio by Luca Frigo
Recorded in Fiesole, 23 September 2021

Thanks to Alessandro Pierini and Beatrice Bianchi

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MARCO SCORTICATI
Born in Milan in 1980, he began studying recorder at a very early age. He studied with Giovanni Antonini and Pedro Memelsdorff in Milan, with Walter van Hauwe in Amsterdam, and with Kees Boeke in Zurich.
He regularly performs with his ensemble Estro Cromatico, and collaborates a.o. with Accademia Bizantina (O. Dantone), Europa Galante (F. Biondi) and Il Giardino Armonico (G. Antonini). He has performed with the Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra directed by Ottavio Dantone, Giovanni Antonini and Rinaldo Alessandrini; he has also appeared as a soloist with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, both directed by Fabio Biondi, and with the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova. He has played together with such well-known soloists as Cecilia Bartoli, Fabio Biondi, María Espada, Vivica Genaux, Ann Hallenberg, María Hinojosa Montenegro, Emma Kirkby, Stefano Montanari, Enrico Onofri, Nuria Rial, Andreas Scholl and Mária Zádori.
He appears on CD and DVD recordings with Accademia Bizantina (Decca, Naïve Classique), Europa Galante (Virgin Classics, Dynamic) and Il Giardino Armonico (Warner Classics, Naïve Classique).
He has performed as a soloist in some of the most important European concert halls and festivals, such as Berliner Philharmonie and Berliner Konzerthaus, Bozar (Brussels), Die Glocke (Bremen), Musikhalle Hamburg, Teatro della Pergola (Florence), Alte Oper Frankfurt, Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Barbican Hall (London), Philharmonie Luxenbourg, Baluarte (Pamplona), Théâtre des Champs Elysées (Paris), Auditorio di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Auditorio Kursaal in San Sebastián, Stavanger Concert Hall (Norway), De Oosterpoort (Utrecht), Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía (Valencia), Auditorio Miguel Delibes (Valladolid), Wiener Konzerthaus, Tonhalle (Zurich), Berliner Tage für Alte Musik, Musikinstrumenten-Museum Berlin, Festival de Beaune, Festival de Música de Canarias, Festival de Música de Compostela, Opera Rara Krakow, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, MilanoArteMusica, Musica e Poesia a San Maurizio and Società del Quartetto (Milan), Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore and Lingotto Musica (Torino).
With Estro Cromatico he has recorded the albums “Son d’Amore - Recorder sonatas by G.F. Handel” (Stradivarius, 2014) and "Arcangelo Corelli: Solos and Concertos Fitted for the Flutes" (Arcana, 2019).
He taught recorder at the Conservatories in Bari, Trento, Rome and Cosenza, and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig. He is recorder professor at the "Luigi Cherubini" Conservatory in Florence.