Bischoff: 6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 1 Claudio Ronco & Emanuela Vozza

• Johann Carl Bischoff (1747-1800): Cello Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1 No. 1:
• 1 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1 No. 1: I. Allegro Moderato 05:54
• 2 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1 No. 1: II. Adagio 02:41
• 3 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1 No. 1: III. Rondo grazioso 03:03
• Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 1 No. 2:
• 4 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 1 No. 2: I. Allegro moderato 03:14
• 5 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 1 No. 2: II. Adagio 05:03
• 6 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 1 No. 2: III. Pastorale grazioso 03:02
• Cello Sonata No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 1 No. 3:
• 7 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 1 No. 3: I. Allegro moderato 03:11
• 8 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 1 No. 3: II. Adagio 03:39
• 9 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 1 No. 3: III. Rondo 04:35
• Cello Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 1 No. 4:
• 10 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 1 No. 4: I. Allegro moderato 04:01
• 11 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 1 No. 4: II. Adagio assai 03:34
• 12 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 1 No. 4: III. Rondo grazioso 03:16
• Cello Sonata No. 5 E Major, Op. 1 No. 5:
• 13 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 5 E Major, Op. 1 No. 5: I. Allegro moderato 03:44
• 14 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 5 E Major, Op. 1 No. 5: II. Larghetto 04:09
• 15 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 5 E Major, Op. 1 No. 5: III. Grazioso 02:11
• Cello Sonata No. 6 in F Major, Op. 1 No. 6:
• 16 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 6 in F Major, Op. 1 No. 6: I. Allegro moderato 08:27
• 17 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 6 in F Major, Op. 1 No. 6: II. Adagio assai 01:26
• 18 Bischoff: Cello Sonata No. 6 in F Major, Op. 1 No. 6: III. Presto 02:09
• Total Runtime 01:07:19

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The first recording of Johann Carl Bischoff's Six Sonatas for Cello performed by Claudio Ronco and Emanuela Vozza on period instruments. Johann Carl Bischoff (1747-1800) was a a German composer and a virtuoso cellist. He became a member of the court orchestra of the Duke of Anhalt-Dessau in the 1770s. In 1793, Bischoff invented a cello-like instrument, which he named the Harmonicello. The instrument had five bowed gut strings and ten sympathetic metal ones.

Claudio Ronca, cello
Emanuela Vozza, double bass

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 gratest 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 ditinguish his performances for the freshness of his inventions, spontaneity and elegance.

Born in Torino, 1955, he studied in the Conservatory "Giuseppe Verdi", under the guidance of Renzo Brancaleon and Pietro Nava, former cellist of the Royal Opera Theatre. Interested in extra-european music, he graduated in 1976 from Calcutta University, India. In 1978 studied under the guidance of Anner Bijlsma and Christophe Coin, in Génève, Basel and Paris.

Since 1980 he has been the solo cellist of the famous Clemencic Consort of Vienna, with whom he has performed concerts and Operas all over the world, being active also in the greatest part of the discographical production of the group, mainly published by Harmonia Mundi, Sony, Accord Musifrance and the Italian label Nuova Era. He has realized several recordings of his own musicological discoveries, such as the works of the neapolitain cello virtuoso Salvatore Lanzetti, as well as many first world recordings of great interest, such as the integral work for Duo of Nicolò Paganini and his teacher Alessandro Rolla, the complete piano Trios of the two great danish romantic composers N.W. Gade and Peter Heise, or the splendid Sonatas for cello and piano by the celebrated romantic cello virtuoso Alfredo Piatti.

Highly appreciated by critics as an exceptional interpreter of the major virtuoso repertoire, baroque as well as romantic, he has collaborated, among the many, with Ensemble 415, Jordi Savall and the Hesperion XX. He's a regular guest of Festivals such as "Musica Antiqua de Sevilla", "Alte Musikfestival Berlin", "Festival International de violoncelle" of Beauvais, "Musikverein" of Vienna, "Oude Musik Festival" in Holland. He has broadcasted for RAI, OEsterreicher Rundfunk, Bayerische Rundfunk, Danmarks Radio, Radio France, R.T. Svizzera, Radio Canada, etc. Some videos of his works were done by ZDF and Canadian Television. Since 1983 he lives in Venice, married to the Danish singer Lone Loëll, and since 1985 he plays regularly with the venetian pianist Brenno Ambrosini.

Claudio Ronco plays on precious cellos by G.B. Guadagnini, Cremona 1740, Antonio Casini, Modena 1673, Jean Ouvrard, Parigi 1745, C.A. Miremont , Parigi 1876, anonimus Flemish five stringed cello, end of XVII sec., all restored to the original conditions, and historically stringed in gut, according to the work and research of Mimmo Peruffo, Vicenza.

Emanuela Vozza
who, at the time the first cello of the Bolognese ensemble DSG and of the Cappella Musicale of San Petronio in Bologna, a group created to promote the baroque repertoire, mostly unpublished, preserved in the rich library of this ancient musical institution . The characteristic freshness of her performances and the quality of sound combined with the expressive research, are the qualities that make her playing particularly suitable for facing the chamber music repertoire as well as the difficult art of the Basso Continuo.

From this happy meeting a marriage is born and a duo that performs continuously from 2001 to today, covering the vast repertoire of solo and bass cello sonatas, or duets with two cellos, proceeding from the Baroque to the early Romanticism. Over the years the duo always combines repertoire research with concert practice; the first absolute executions in modern times are therefore countless from the works of cellist composers from all over Europe, such as Lanzetti, Cervetto, Canavas, Graziani, Jansson, the Duport brothers and many others.

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