“Since child­hood, I have cher­ished a spe­cial affec­tion for the music of Corelli. Sadly this is at odds with the absence of the vio­la da gam­ba in this reper­toire. So I have often adapt­ed music for vio­lin, flute and cel­lo for my instru­ment, long before I knew that this was a his­tor­i­cal prac­tice. A tran­scrip­tion of this kind is akin to a panora­ma that you are used to view­ing from a cer­tain angle, but which you con­sid­er from a new point of view for the first time: some details are lost, but some new ones are found.”

Teodoro Baù