SIPRUTINI: CELLO SONATAS OP. VI & VII

Descrizione

EMANUEL SIPRUTINI (Netherlands c. 1730 – London c. 1790)

SIX SOLOS FOR A VIOLONCELLO WITH BASS Op. VI (London, about 1763/64)

Sonata I in C Major
Sonata II in F Major
Sonata III in D Major
Sonata IV in F Major
Sonata V in A Major
Sonata VI in D minor

World première recording

SIX SOLOS FOR A VIOLONCELLO WITH BASS Op. VII (London, about 1774/75)

Sonata I in D Major
Sonata II in F Major
Sonata III in A Major
Sonata IV in G Major
Sonata V in C Major
Sonata VI in B-flat Major

World première recording as Duo

2 CD

Claudio Ronco – Emanuela Vozza
On original instruments

Unita alla precedente incisione delle opere III e V, questa pubblicazione completa l’opera di sonate per violoncello di Emanuel Siprutini. Di famiglia ebraica, nato forse in Olanda e giunto in Inghilterra a seguito del “Jewish naturalization act” stabilito nel 1753 da re Giorgio II d’Inghilterra, si stabilì a Londra come commerciante di vini, concertista e insegnante di violoncello ed ebbe fra i suoi allievi John Crosdill, il più celebre violoncellista inglese del Settecento. Leopold Mozart incontrò Siprutini nel 1764, durante il suo soggiorno in Inghilterra col prodigioso figlio ancora bambino. Colpito dal suo talento di violoncellista, tentò di convincerlo a convertirsi al Cattolicesimo, ma Emanuel rimase serenamente ebreo. Tra il 1756 e il 1775 fece pubblicare quattro libri di sonate per il violoncello che certamente i Mozart possedettero, come vien da pensare ritrovandone tracce e frammenti d’idee nelle più belle opere di Wolfgang.

Combined with the previous recording of Opus III and V, this publication completes the oeuvre of cello sonatas by Emanuel Siprutini. Born in a Jewish family, perhaps in Hol-land, he arrived in England following the “Jewish naturalization act” established in 1753 by King George II of En-gland, and he settled in London as a wine merchant, concert performer and cello teacher, having among his students John Crosdill, the most famous British cellist of the eighteenth century. Leopold Mozart met Siprutini in 1764, during his stay in England. Struck by the cellist’s talent, he tried to convince him to convert to Catholicism, but Emanuel remained serenely Jewish. Between 1756 and 1775 he published four books of cello sonatas which the Mozarts certainly owned, as one might think by finding fragments and ideas in Wolfgang’s most beautiful works.