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Six Cello Sonatas

Lucia Swarts

Six Cello Sonatas

Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917205121
Catnr: CC 72051
Release date: 01 September 2002
1 CD
 
Label
Challenge Classics
UPC
0608917205121
Catalogue number
CC 72051
Release date
01 September 2002
Album
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
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About the album

On this album cellist Lucia Swarts plays six cello sonatas by Antonio Vivaldi.
Veelzijdige sonates voor cello van Vivaldi
Op dit album speelt celliste Lucia Swarts zes cello sonates van Antonio Vivaldi. Vivaldi schreef tussen 1720 en 1730 een reeks van zes sonates voor cello en basso continuo. Hij raakte gecharmeerd door de cello door aan de ene kant de melancholie en diepe droevigheid van zijn klank en aan de andere kant de vrolijkheid en luchtigheid in de mogelijke speeltechnieken van het instrument. Vivaldi schreef een aantal van zijn mooiste werken voor dit instrument, die veel energie en bedachtzaamheid bevatten en worden gekenmerkt door heerlijke melodieën.

Lucia Swarts is celliste en werkt naast haar solo-optredens ook samen met kamermuzikanten waarmee ze muziek speelt uit alle tijden van de muziekgeschiedenis. Ze is onder andere lid van het Asko|Schönberg ensemble en is eerste celliste in het orkest van de Nederlandse Bachvereniging. Op dit album laat ze de veelzijdige sonates horen van Vivaldi.

Artist(s)

Lucia Swarts (cello)

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)

Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. Born in Venice, he is recognised as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons. Many of his compositions were written for the female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children where Vivaldi (who had been ordained as a Catholic priest) was employed from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740. Vivaldi also had some...
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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. Born in Venice, he is recognised as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons.
Many of his compositions were written for the female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children where Vivaldi (who had been ordained as a Catholic priest) was employed from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740. Vivaldi also had some success with expensive stagings of his operas in Venice, Mantua and Vienna. After meeting the Emperor Charles VI, Vivaldi moved to Vienna, hoping for preferment. However, the Emperor died soon after Vivaldi's arrival, and Vivaldi himself died less than a year later in poverty.

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01.
'Sonata in B-flat Major, RV 47': Largo
03:57
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
02.
'Sonata in B-flat Major, RV 47': Allegro
02:00
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
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'Sonata in B-flat Major, RV 47': Largo
03:04
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
04.
'Sonata in B-flat Major, RV 47': Allegro
02:02
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
05.
'Sonata in B-flat Major, RV 45': Largo
03:45
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
06.
'Sonata in B-flat Major, RV 45': Allegro poco
02:44
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
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'Sonata in B-flat Major, RV 45': Largo
03:49
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
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'Sonata in B-flat Major, RV 45': Allegro
02:48
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
09.
'Sonata in A Minor, RV 43': Largo
02:40
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
10.
'Sonata in A Minor, RV 43': Allegro
02:20
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
11.
'Sonata in A Minor, RV 43': Largo
02:50
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
12.
'Sonata in A Minor, RV 43': Allegro
01:58
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
13.
'Sonata in E Minor, RV 40': Largo
03:26
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
14.
'Sonata in E Minor, RV 40': Allegro
02:43
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
15.
'Sonata in E Minor, RV 40': Largo
02:58
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
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'Sonata in E Minor, RV 40': Allegro
01:28
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
17.
'Sonata in B-flat Major, RV 46': Preludio: Largo
02:09
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
18.
'Sonata in B-flat Major, RV 46': Allemanda: Allegro
02:12
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
19.
'Sonata in B-flat Major, RV 46': Largo
02:24
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
20.
'Sonata in B-flat Major, RV 46': Corrente: Allegro
02:29
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
21.
'Sonata in F Major, RV 41': Largo
02:36
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
22.
'Sonata in F Major, RV 41': Allegro
02:23
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
23.
'Sonata in F Major, RV 41': Largo
03:51
(Antonio Vivaldi) Lucia Swarts
24.
'Sonata in F Major, RV 41': Allegro
02:34
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