Duport: Sonates & Duo for Cello Claudio Ronco & Emanuela Vozza

• Jean-Louis Duport (1749 - 1819): Cello Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 4 No. 1:
• 1 Duport: Cello Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 4 No. 1: I. Allegro 03:54
• 2 Duport: Cello Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 4 No. 1: II. Adagio 02:57
• 3 Duport: Cello Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 4 No. 1: III. Rondeau gratioso 06:50
• Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Major, Op. 4 No. 2:
• 4 Duport: Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Major, Op. 4 No. 2: I. Allegro moderato 04:25
• 5 Duport: Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Major, Op. 4 No. 2: II. Adagio 05:02
• 6 Duport: Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Major, Op. 4 No. 2: III. Allegro assai 03:20
• Cello Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 4 No. 5:
• 7 Duport: Cello Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 4 No. 5: I. Allegro moderato 03:32
• 8 Duport: Cello Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 4 No. 5: II. Adagio cantabile 03:58
• 9 Duport: Cello Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 4 No. 5: III. Tempo di minuetto con variazioni 07:42
• Cello Sonata No. 6 in D Major, Op. 4 No. 6:
• 10 Duport: Cello Sonata No. 6 in D Major, Op. 4 No. 6: I. Allegro 05:42
• 11 Duport: Cello Sonata No. 6 in D Major, Op. 4 No. 6: II. Adagio 04:26
• 12 Duport: Cello Sonata No. 6 in D Major, Op. 4 No. 6: III. Alllegro assai 04:58
• Cello Duo No. 2 in D Minor:
• 13 Duport: Cello Duo No. 2 in D Minor: I. Allegro molto 04:46
• 14 Duport: Cello Duo No. 2 in D Minor: II. Rondeau 05:33
• Cello Duo No. 3 in G Major:
• 15 Duport: Cello Duo No. 3 in G Major: I. Adagio 01:34
• 16 Duport: Cello Duo No. 3 in G Major: II. Presto 03:13
• 17 Duport: Cello Duo No. 3 in G Major: III. Rondeau gracioso 05:06
• Total Runtime 01:16:58

Info for Duport: Sonates & Duo for Cello

The world premiere recording on period instruments of Jean-Louis Duport's Six Sonatas for cello and bass, and Three Duos for two cellos performed by Claudio Ronco and Emanuela Vozza.

This album is a tribute to the composer who contributed to the evolution of music for the cello, which took place during the slow but grandiose development between the Baroque and Romantic periods. A slight interest has dedicated to the art of Duport as a composer, despite the attention on to the didactic practice of his studies, ignoring the treasure represented by his most important compositions. A serious fault from the discographic point of view, despite the well-known fact that we inherited the cello basic technique right from Jean-Louis Duport, and we have used it successfully for two centuries.

"The playing by both Claudio Ronco and Emanuel Vozza is superb. They handle the clear technical challenges with clarity and ease, never letting the virtuosity outweigh the need for musicality. The tones are wonderfully resonant, and even in the tricky highest registers, I can discern no intonational glitches." (Fanfare)

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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