For the King of Prussia - Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Cello, Op. 5 Marco Ceccato & Anna Fontana

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1:
• 1Beethoven: Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1: I. Adagio sostenuto02:24
• 2Beethoven: Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1: II. Allegro14:53
• 3Beethoven: Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1: III. Rondo. Allegro vivace07:27
• Twelve Variations on “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, WoO 45:
• 4Beethoven: Twelve Variations on “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, WoO 45: I. Allegretto00:47
• 5Beethoven: Twelve Variations on “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, WoO 45: II. Variation 100:37
• 6Beethoven: Twelve Variations on “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, WoO 45: III. Variation 200:40
• 7Beethoven: Twelve Variations on “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, WoO 45: IV. Variation 300:42
• 8Beethoven: Twelve Variations on “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, WoO 45: V. Variation 400:43
• 9Beethoven: Twelve Variations on “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, WoO 45: VI. Variation 500:48
• 10Beethoven: Twelve Variations on “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, WoO 45: VII. Variation 600:41
• 11Beethoven: Twelve Variations on “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, WoO 45: VIII. Variation 700:42
• 12Beethoven: Twelve Variations on “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, WoO 45: IX. Variation 800:44
• 13Beethoven: Twelve Variations on “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, WoO 45: X. Variation 900:43
• 14Beethoven: Twelve Variations on “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, WoO 45: XI. Variation 10. Allegro00:41
• 15Beethoven: Twelve Variations on “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, WoO 45: XII. Variation 11. Adagio02:37
• 16Beethoven: Twelve Variations on “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, WoO 45: XIII. Variation 12. Allegro01:13
• Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 5 No. 2:
• 17Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 5 No. 2: I. Adagio sostenuto e espressivo04:21
• 18Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 5 No. 2: II. Allegro molto più tosto Presto14:35
• 19Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 5 No. 2: III. Rondo. Allegro08:45
• Total Runtime01:04:03

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Marco Ceccato and Anna Fontana are well-known performers on the international baroque circuit and familiar faces thanks to their recordings for Outhere labels Alpha, Arcana and Zig-Zag Territoires (including Marco's 2015 Diapason d'or Award winning recording of Boccherini with Accademia Ottoboni). Now they have come together to tackle the two revolutionary works for piano and cello composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1796 and dedicated to King Frederick William II of Prussia. Their interpretative approach deepens our understanding of the final years of that century when a young Beethoven, a child of the 18th century, was grappling with one of his most extraordinary stylistic innovations. These two expert performers have set out to reconstruct historically reliable versions of the works, linking Beethoven’s revolutionary harmonic solutions with the 18th-century stylistic features that were still in vogue, from phrasings to Beethoven’s meticulously notated articulations.

Marco Ceccato, cello
Anna Fontana, piano

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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