I Musici De Mopntreal - Violoncelle Cello - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Thirty years after the first world recording, Claudio Ronco concludes his research on Lanzetti's Sonatas. This Album collects the complete recording of Opus No. 1, performed in duo-form together with Emanuela Vozza. Claudio Ronco is undoubtedly among the best artists in Baroque music repertoire, as a skilled Basso Continuo player and a Soloist of virtuoso repertoire. His twenty years experience with the greatest groups and directors specialised in XVI to XVIIIth Century music, assure him a great stylistical flexibility, together with an extraordinary instrumental virtuosity, so as to distinguish his performances for the freshness of his inventions, spontaneity and elegance. Emanuela Vozza, graduated in cello in Bologna, and after years of study and apprenticeship of the baroque instrument began an intense artistic collaboration as a performer of basso continuo, both in chamber and orchestral repertoire. Since 2005 she has performed frequently in Europe with mainly unpublished music programs by virtuoso cellists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

This invaluable survey of that most Romantic of instruments includes both the classic concertos of the era, by Dvorak and Saint-Saens, as well as a generous selection of encores and showpieces, performed by a variety of cellists from this and earlier generations. Including Zara Nelsova, in whose classic interpretation of the Dvorák one may readily hear the admiration evinced by the composer's friend Brahms who, on hearing the work, remarked that he would have composed a concerto for the instrument himself had he realized the possibilities inherent in a combination that may present certain problems of balance, pitting the mellow voice of the solo instrument against a full orchestra, but that yet may be overcome through a sensitive songfulness that came beautifully and naturally to Dvorak. Brahms, of course, can be considered to have made good his omission with the late flowering of the Double Concerto. His expansive E minor Sonata is here, alongside the deft turns of Mendelssohn's first sonata (in a performance by Luca Fiorentini on a rare Strad cello), as well as more lyrical sonatas by Chopin and Rachmaninoff, treasured by cellists for their juicy melodies and the opportunity to engage with the idioms of composers who largely wrote for the piano. The last disc opens with perhaps the most famous of all cello encores, the Swan, from Saint-Saens's Carnival of the Animals, which seems perfectly to capture the potential both for melancholy and for imitation of the human voice which places the cello alone among the string family. The most beautiful cello music of Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schumann Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff and many more. Album Tracks 1. I. Allegro 2. II. Adagio Ma Non Troppo 3. III. Finale Allegro Moderato 4. Klid (Silent Woods), Op. 68, No. 5, B. 182 5. Rondo in G minor, Op. 94, B. 181 6. I. Nicht Zu

This new features the rare and hard to find famous recording of the Brandenburg Concertos in 1963 by I Musici together with the most important soloists of the time. I Musici, also known as I Musici di Roma, is an Italian chamber orchestra from Rome formed in 1951. They are well known for their interpretations of Baroque and other works, particularly Antonio Vivaldi and Tomaso Albinoni. Among their engagements, the original chamber orchestra completed acclaimed tours of Southern Africa 1956, and again in 1967, with a few replacement performers. In the 1970s, I Musici recorded the first classical music video and, later, the group was the first to record a compact disc for the Philips tag. One of their founding members and first violin, Felix Ayo, was still an active violinist as of 2017. Album Tracks 1. Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major BWV 1046~Allegro 2. Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major BWV 1046~Adagio 3. Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major BWV 1046~Allegro 4. Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major BWV 1046~Menuetto 5. Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major BWV 1047~Allegro 6. Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major BWV 1047~Andante 7. Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major BWV 1047~Allegro assai 8. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major BWV 1048~Allegro 9. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major BWV 1048~Adagio 10. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major BWV 1048~Allegro 1. Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major BWV 1049~Allegro 2. Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major BWV 1049~Andante 3. Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major BWV 1049~Presto 4. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major BWV 1050~Allegro 5. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major BWV 1050~Affettuoso 6. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major BWV 1050~Allegro 7. Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major BWV 1051~Allegro 8. Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major BWV