SIPRUTINI: CELLO SONATAS OP. VI & VII

SIPRUTINI: CELLO SONATAS OP. VI & VII (LDV14108)

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

Claudio Ronco – Emanuela Vozza
On original instruments

2 CD

Together with the previous recording of works III and V, this publication completes Emanuel Siprutini's cello sonata output. Born into a Jewish family, possibly in the Netherlands, and arriving in England after the "Jewish Naturalization Act" established in 1753 by King George II of England, he settled in London as a wine merchant, concert performer, and cello teacher. Among his students was John Crosdill, the most famous English cellist of the eighteenth century. Leopold Mozart met Siprutini in 1764, during his stay in England with his prodigious young son. Struck by his talent as a cellist, he tried to convince him to convert to Catholicism, but Emanuel calmly remained Jewish. Between 1756 and 1775, he published four books of sonatas for the cello which the Mozarts certainly owned, as traces and fragments of ideas can be found in Wolfgang's most beautiful works.