Il violoncello del Cardinale Accademia Ottoboni & Marco Ceccato

• Pietro Giuseppe Gaetano Boni (1686 - 1741):
• 1Sonata in C Major, Op. 1: I. Largo04:39
• 2Sonata in C Major, Op. 1: II. Allegro "Alla francese"01:54
• 3Sonata in C Major, Op. 1: III. Largo02:37
• 4Sonata in C Major, Op. 1: IV. Allegro00:57
• Filippo Amadei (1690 - 1730):
• 5Sonata in D Minor, WD 896/10: I. Andante02:49
• 6Sonata in D Minor, WD 896/10: II. Andante e cantabile assai02:22
• Nicola Francesco Haym (1678 - 1729):
• 7Sonata No. 1 in A Minor & E Minor: I. Adagio01:25
• 8Sonata No. 1 in A Minor & E Minor: II. Allegro assai00:38
• 9Sonata No. 1 in A Minor & E Minor: III. Adagio00:56
• 10Sonata No. 1 in A Minor & E Minor: IV. Presto01:01
• Giuseppe Maria Perroni (1700 - 1776):
• 11Sonata No. 2 in D Major: I. Adagio01:46
• 12Sonata No. 2 in D Major: II. Allegro02:03
• 13Sonata No. 2 in D Major: III. Grave00:58
• 14Sonata No. 2 in D Major: IV. Allegro e staccato01:36
• Pietro Giuseppe Gaetano Boni:
• 15Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1: I. Largo03:28
• 16Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1: II. Allegro "Alla francese"01:43
• 17Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1: III. Allegro02:16
• Giovanni Battista Costanzi (1704 - 1778):
• 18Sinfonia a violoncello solo in D Major, WD 551: I. Adagio assai02:04
• 19Sinfonia a violoncello solo in D Major, WD 551: II. Allegro03:31
• 20Sinfonia a violoncello solo in D Major, WD 551: III. Amoroso01:59
• 21Sinfonia a violoncello solo in D Major, WD 551: IV. Amoroso01:43
• Giuseppe Maria Perroni:
• 22Sonata No. 1 in A Major: I. Adagio ed affettuoso01:56
• 23Sonata No. 1 in A Major: II. Presto01:20
• 24Sonata No. 1 in A Major: III. Grave01:15
• 25Sonata No. 1 in A Major: IV. Allegro01:29
• Giovanni Bononcini (1670 - 1747):
• 26Sonata in A Minor: I. Andante03:38
• 27Sonata in A Minor: II. Allegro01:42
• 28Sonata in A Minor: III. Menuet (Grazioso)04:21
• Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier (1662 - 1700):
• 29Aria in G Minor "Amor di che tu vuoi" (Transcription for Two Cellos and Continuo)05:18
• Total Runtime01:03:24

Info for Il violoncello del Cardinale

Cardinals Benedetto Pamphili and Pietro Ottoboni played a prominent role in Rome at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with their patronage of the three most important composers of the day, Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti and Handel. At that time, numerous musicians converged on Rome, and the large orchestra directed by Arcangelo Corelli at the church of San Luigi dei Francesi included several famous cellists, among them G. L. Lular, N. F. Haym, F. Amadei and G. M. Perroni. As well as notable virtuosos, these men were often also composers of oratorios, vocal music, and pieces for their own favourite instrument, though very few of these have survived. It is to their music, often unpublished, that Marco Ceccato and his Accademia, winners of a Diapason d’Or of the year in 2015, introduce us here, along with works by the composers who subsequently formed the core of this group after Handel left for London: G. Bononcini, P. G. P. Boni, and G. B. Costanzi, who was later to teach Boccherini.

Accademia Ottoboni
Marco Ceccato, conductor

Marco Ceccato
Born in a small town in central Italy and raised in a large family of musicians, he began studying the cello at the age of nine. After completing his conventional academic studies with Jorge Guillermo Schultis, Teodora Campagnaro and David Geringas, he began his true artistic training by meeting musicians from different musical fields, from popular music to jazz, up to ancient music.

After specializing in Baroque cello at the Scuola Civica in Milan with Gaetano Nasillo, in 2002 he joined the Academia Montis Regalis, baroque and classical orchestra, directed by Alessandro De Marchi, with whom he began a close collaboration. In those years he met the violinist Enrico Onofri and the French violinist Amandine Beyer with whom in 2006 he founded the ensemble Gli Incogniti.

The partnership with the French violinist will lead to the publication of many recordings awarded by international critics. In 2004, he founded the Accademia Ottoboni, and began a long and intense period of artistic activity that led him to collaborate with many personalities on the international scene such as Jordi Savall, Rinaldo Alessandrini, John Eliot Gardiner, Giovanni Antonini, Eduardo López Banzo, Alfredo Bernardini, and violinists such as Giuliano Carmignola, Amandine Beyer, Enrico Onofri, Manfredo Kraemer and Riccardo Minasi.

In 2014, the disc of Vivaldi's Sonatas for cello and basso continuo recorded for Outhere Music was awarded a Diapason d’Or, Gramophone's Editor Choice, and album of the month on the German magazine Toccata. In 2015, he also released a disc entirely dedicated to Boccherini for Outhere Music, awarded with the Diapason d’Or of the year 2015 as the best instrumental music recording. In 2017, with the album Il cello del Cardinale, he received a nomination for the ICMA (International Classical Music Awards), and the recording of Haydn's Concerto in C major for Harmonia mundi in 2018 received the Diapason d'Or.

He currently holds the chair of baroque cello at the Licinio Refice Conservatory in Frosinone, in Italy, and collaborates as first cello with the orchestra Le Concert des Nations, conducted by Jordi Savall,Il Pomo d’Oro Ensemble and with the Gli Incogniti Ensemble, directed by Amandine Beyer.

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