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Cello Sonatas

Lucia Swarts

Cello Sonatas

Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917206524
Catnr: CC 72065
Release date: 01 January 2003
1 CD
 
Label
Challenge Classics
UPC
0608917206524
Catalogue number
CC 72065
Release date
01 January 2003
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Artist(s)
Composer(s)
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About the album

On this album cellist Lucia Swarts plays together with cellist Richte van der Meer and guitar and theorbo player Stephen Stubbs four sonatas for violoncello and continuo by Luigi Boccherini.
Sonates voor cello uit de tijd van Mozart
De Italiaan Luigi Boccherini was naast een gerenommeerd componist ook een begaan cellist en contrabassist. Hij had een uitgebreide carrière als musicus, onder andere in een theatherorkest in Lucca en aan het hof van Wenen. Na een tournee met violist Filippo Manfredi kreeg hij klein succes met zijn eigen kamermuziek. Later werd hij aangenomen als componist voor het privéorkest van Don Luis in Madrid, de broer van koning Karel III van Spanje. Hij componeerde voornamelijk kamermuziek met meer dan 100 strijkkwintetten en bijna 100 strijkkwartetten. In de muziek die hij voor orkest heeft geschreven staan de strijkinstrumenten ook centraal, bijvoorbeeld in zijn celloconcerten.
Net als in deze concerten is ook in de cellosonates van Boccherini zijn kwaliteit en ervaring als cellist terug te horen. Boccherini, die een tijdgenoot was van Mozart, schreef opgewekte muziek met af en toe een serieuze toon in de langzame delen.

De stukken worden op dit album gespeeld door Lucia Swarts. Naast haar vele solistische optredens heeft ze heeft zich toegelegd op het spelen van kamermuziek uit alle periodes van de muziekgeschiedenis. Ze treedt op met musici als Leo van Doeselaar, Siebe Henstra, Harry van der Kamp en Jos van Immerseel en speelt in ensembles als de Residentie Bach Ensembles en het Apollo Ensemble. Ze is sinds 1983 eerste celliste in het Barokorkest van De Nederlandse Bachvereniging.
Op dit album wordt ze begeleidt door mede-cellist Richte van der Meer en gitarist Stephen Stubbs. De keuze voor deze instrumenten zorgt voor een warme en intieme sfeer op het album.

Artist(s)

Lucia Swarts

Lucia Swarts began studying the cello at the age of seven. She studied with Anner Bijlsma and Lidewij Scheifes at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague , where she acquired her solo degree in 1985. In the year of her final exam , she gave her debut recital in the Kleine Zaal at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw , as a prizewinner in the `New Vintage`series for talented young musicians. Apart from her appearances as a soloist , she has devoted considerable time and effort to playing music from every period of musical history in a wide range of chamber music settings, using instruments appropriate to the period .As well as the modern cello, she also plays piano, the viola da Spalla, baroque cello,...
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Lucia Swarts began studying the cello at the age of seven. She studied with Anner Bijlsma and Lidewij Scheifes at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague , where she acquired her solo degree in 1985.
In the year of her final exam , she gave her debut recital in the Kleine Zaal at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw , as a prizewinner in the `New Vintage`series for talented young musicians.
Apart from her appearances as a soloist , she has devoted considerable time and effort to playing music from every period of musical history in a wide range of chamber music settings, using instruments appropriate to the period .As well as the modern cello, she also plays piano, the viola da Spalla, baroque cello, cello piccolo and basse de Violon.
From 1983 on she played in the Schoenberg Ensemble (later Asko/Schoenberg) and worked with composers as György Ligety, Sofia Gubaidulina , György Kurtag, Reinbert de Leeuw, Oliver Knussen, John Adams, Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, Martijn Padding and Mayke Nas Composer Mayke Nas (Componist des vaderlands 2016-2018) wrote a piece for her. In June 1996 Lucia was one of the solo players in the Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble in the Opera `A King Riding ` by Klaas de Vries.
Since 1983 , Lucia has been principal cellist in the baroque orchestra of the Netherlands Bach society and she also plays in the Residentie Bach Ensemble.
She worked with baroque specialists as Gustav Leonhardt, Frans Brüggen, Sigiswald Kuijken, René Jacobs, Peter Dijkstra, Jos van Veldhoven , Jos Vermunt and Ton Koopman.
While early music and contemporary music has a special place in her affection and where she was performing in many CD`s she also performs romantic music.In 1997 she recorded a CD with Leo van Doeselaar (piano ) with music of Saint -Saëns, Busoni, Moscheles and Gounod. CD .
She is always looking for new repertoire ( for herself and also for her students) ,which needs to become out of the shadow.
Lucia issued 7 solo CDs.
Six Cello Sonatas by Vivaldi (CC72051), Cello Sonatas by Boccherini (CC 72065), Italian Cello Concertos (CC 72021), Bach after Bach .Vol. 1(with Leo van Doeselaar (CC72066) , Italian Concertos & Sonatas (CC 72516).The Italian Origins (seven mouintain records) and Cello Solo Suites by J.S.Bach ( CC 72784) She is a professor in `modern ` and historical cello at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague since 1988 , where she works with Elena Malinova. Elena is also already for many years the correpetitor of her cellostudents.
Lucia is also visiting professor at the Conservatoire Superior de Salamanca and Sevilla (Spain).

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Composer(s)

Luigi Boccherini

On the 28th of May, 2005, it was exactly 200 years ago that the Italian composer Luigi Boccherini died in Madrid (Spain was his second fatherland). While coming from the land of opera, perhaps ironically he became the most important 'Latin' composer in chamber music. His noble and intelligent style might be less sparkling than Haydn's or Mozart's, it is nonetheless characterised by a love for details. His 'invention' was the string quintet (two violins, viola and two cellos), of which he composed over 140. Besides that, he also composed about 100 string quartets, 60 string trios, cello concertos and symphonies.  
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On the 28th of May, 2005, it was exactly 200 years ago that the Italian composer Luigi Boccherini died in Madrid (Spain was his second fatherland). While coming from the land of opera, perhaps ironically he became the most important 'Latin' composer in chamber music. His noble and intelligent style might be less sparkling than Haydn's or Mozart's, it is nonetheless characterised by a love for details. His 'invention' was the string quintet (two violins, viola and two cellos), of which he composed over 140. Besides that, he also composed about 100 string quartets, 60 string trios, cello concertos and symphonies.
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01.
Sonata no.3 (G.5) in G major for violoncello and continuo: Allegro alla Militaire
05:17
(Luigi Boccherini) Lucia Swarts, Richte van der Meer, Stephen Stubbs
02.
Sonata no.3 (G.5) in G major for violoncello and continuo: Largo
03:32
(Luigi Boccherini) Lucia Swarts, Richte van der Meer, Stephen Stubbs
03.
Sonata no.3 (G.5) in G major for violoncello and continuo: Menuetto
03:50
(Luigi Boccherini) Lucia Swarts, Richte van der Meer, Stephen Stubbs
04.
Sonata no.1 (G.13) in A major for violoncello and continuo: Allegro moderato
05:00
(Luigi Boccherini) Lucia Swarts, Richte van der Meer, Stephen Stubbs
05.
Sonata no1 (G.13) in A major for violoncello and continuo: Largo
03:41
(Luigi Boccherini) Lucia Swarts, Richte van der Meer, Stephen Stubbs
06.
Sonata no.1 (G.13) in A major for violoncello and continuo: Allegro
03:55
(Luigi Boccherini) Lucia Swarts, Richte van der Meer, Stephen Stubbs
07.
Sonata no.4 (G.10) in E flat major for violoncello and continuo: Allegro
05:16
(Luigi Boccherini) Lucia Swarts, Richte van der Meer, Stephen Stubbs
08.
Sonata no.4 (G.10) in E flat major for violoncello and continuo: Adagio
04:33
(Luigi Boccherini) Lucia Swarts, Richte van der Meer, Stephen Stubbs
09.
Sonata no.4 (G.10) in E flat major for violoncello and continuo: Affetuoso
04:24
(Luigi Boccherini) Lucia Swarts, Richte van der Meer, Stephen Stubbs
10.
Sonata no.2 (G.6) in C major for violoncello and continuo: Allegro
04:47
(Luigi Boccherini) Lucia Swarts, Richte van der Meer, Stephen Stubbs
11.
Sonata no.2 (G.6) in C major for violoncello and continuo: Largo
05:52
(Luigi Boccherini) Lucia Swarts, Richte van der Meer, Stephen Stubbs
12.
Sonata no.2 (G.6) in C major for violoncello and continuo: Allegro moderato
05:14
(Luigi Boccherini) Lucia Swarts, Richte van der Meer, Stephen Stubbs
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