Sonatas For Cello And Piano - Sonatas for Cello and Piano - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. 1. Allegro Ma Non Tanto 2. 2. Scherzo (Allegro Molto) 3. 3. Adagio Cantabile - Allegro Vivace 4. 1. Adagio Sostenuto Ed Espressivo - Allegro Molto Piã¹ Tosto Presto 5. 2. Rondo (Allegro) 6. 1. Allegro Non Troppo 7. 2. Allegretto Quasi Menuetto 8. 3. Allegro 1. 1. Andante Grave 2. 2. Moderato 3. 3. Allegro Ma Non Troppo 4. 1. Allegro Non Troppo 5. 2. Allegretto Quasi Menuetto 6. 3. Allegro 7. 1. Allegro Agitato - Presto - Prestissimo 8. 2. Andante 9. 3. Allegro

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 Since 2005 she has performed frequently in Europe with mainly unpublished music programs by virtuoso cellists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Album Tracks 1. 12 Sonate a Violoncello Solo E Basso Continuo, Opera Prima, 1736 2. Sonata Op. I No. 1 in G Major 3. Sonata Op. I No. 2 in a Major 4. Sonata Op. I No. 3 in D Major 5. Sonata Op. I No. 4 in C Major 6. Sonata Op. I No. 5 in a Minor 7. Sonata Op. I No. 6 in B-Flat Major 8. Sonata Op. II No. 4 in G Major 9. Sonata Op. I No. 7 in G Major 10. Sonata Op. I No. 8 in E minor 11. Sonata Op. I No. 8 in a Minor 12. Sonata Op. I No. 9 in a Minor 13. Sonata Op. I No. 10 in F-Sharp minor 14. Sonata Op. I No. 11 in F Major 15. Sonata Op. I No. 12 in D Major

The origins of the cello as a solo instrument, and of the kind of solo repertoire compiled in the present set, lie in the gradual emancipation of the cello from it's function as a primarily supportive, accompanying bass. This process began in the second half of the 17th century, firstly in Naples, and then farther afield across the Italian provinces and principalities. Yet the cello would remain an unequal peer of the violin, expressively aswell as technically, through the course of the 18th century, with low-string virtuosity centred instead on the increasingly obsolete viola da gamba (Marin Marais in Paris and then Carl Friedrich Abel in London). By the time of the 'Ottocento' (19th century), opera was the dominant force in Italian musical culture, with bel canto composers such as Rossini and Donizetti creating a public appetite for opera that eclipsed achievements by Italy's musical sons in other genres. Some of these composers who focused their energies instead on instrumental music, swimming against the operatic tide, remained in their native land, while others found a home (or were forced to find one) abroad. Giuseppe Martucci (1856-1909) is one who stayed. A gifted pianist, he bypassed the operatic path and wrote music with a kind of fluent synthesis of Italian lyricism and German, dialectic approach to form that reached an early peak in his Cello Sonata of 1880. Yet Martucci, as a teacher of composition in Bologna and then Naples, urged the teenaged Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) to study abroad. Casella's father was a cellist and his mother a pianist. Several other close relatives were cellists, and his godfather was Alfredo Piatti. It makes sense therefore that, returning from his studies in Paris with Gabriel Faure, he would unite cello and piano with a thorough grasp of their contrasting idioms. Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968) is among the few composers in th