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

2 CD

Claudio Ronco – Emanuela Vozza
On original instruments

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.