Ruge: Concerto, Sinfonia, Arias and Chamber Music Ensemble Flatus & Enrico Casularo

• Filippo Ruge (1725-1767):
• 1 Concerto No. 1 in G Major: I. Allegro 04:11
• 2 Concerto No. 1 in G Major: II. Andante 05:06
• 3 Concerto No. 1 in G Major: III. Spiritoso 03:39
• 4 "Son qui per mare ignoto": Poco allegro 09:38
• 5 Flute Sonata in G Major: I. Moderato 03:07
• 6 Flute Sonata in G Major: II. Adagio 02:41
• 7 Flute Sonata in G Major: III. Allegro non tanto 03:35
• 8 Vana di tua bellezza 06:13
• 9 Duet in D Major: I. Allegretto grazioso 03:49
• 10 Duet in D Major: II. Minuetto I / II 02:45
• 11 Sinfonia "la tempête suivie du calme": I. Con spirit 03:32
• 12 Sinfonia "la tempête suivie du calme": II. Andantino a mezza voce 04:46
• 13 Sinfonia "la tempête suivie du calme": III. La tempesta - Allegro ma non presto 03:35
• Total Runtime 56:37

Info for Ruge: Concerto, Sinfonia, Arias and Chamber Music

Filippo Ruge (1725-1767) was born in Rome, where he was a famous traverso player and a member of the prestigious Congregation of St. Cecilia. Later he settles in Paris, where he became a fashionable flautist and composer, soloist in the “Concerts spirituels”, orchestra conductor, and editor and promoter of Italian music in the French capital. In Paris he performed his own symphony “La tempête suivie du calme” (for strings and horns!), one of the most striking examples of French musical descriptivism. Other works on this new recording are two delightful arias for one resp. two sopranos and strings, a flute sonata and the flute concerto in G, music written in the transition from Baroque to Classical, charming, brilliant and innovating! Played on copies of original instruments by flautist/conductor/musicologist Enrico Casularo and Ensemble Flatus, consisting of strings and harpsichord.

Enrico Casularo, transverse flute, director
Ensemble Flatus

Ensemble Flatus
An ensemble of vocal and instrumental chamber music comprising internationally renowned musicians, Ensemble FLATUS, founded and directed by Enrico Casularo, can be heard at the FLATUS Festival, which holds concerts throughout the year both in Switzerland and abroad; concerts of mainly unpublished masterpieces of vocal and instrumental chamber music from the 18th and 19th centuries, using original instruments and performed according to the practices of the time.

Enrico Casularo
Flautist, musicologist and organologist, Enrico Casularo graduated brilliantly at the “S.Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome under the tutorship of Angelo Persichilli. He continued his music studies in Holland with Master Franz Vester.

He is founder and conductor of the Flatus Ensemble with which he has participated in numerous festivals and concert seasons in Italy and abroad.

On period flutes of his collection he makes a number of first modern performances of compositions for ute by authors (especially Italian) of the 18th and 19th centuries. He figures as a soloist for the RAI broadcasting company, the WRD Cologne, Radio Suisse Romande, Vatican Radio and appears on the labels EMI, Edipan, Bongiovanni, Modus Inveniendi, Pentaphon, Jecklin and Flatus recording. He has published previously unpublished works for flute for Flatus Editions. He is author of the book Research into the history and literature of the transverse ute in the 18th century in Italy and beyond, and has also published a string of articles on performance techniques, the history, the repertoire, the organology of the transverse ute in the 18th century in ute magazines in Italy and abroad.

He regularly holds seminars and interpretation courses at prestigious American and European conservatories. He teaches baroque ute since 2012 at the the “Santa Cecilia”Conservatory.

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