Name: Boccherini: Five Sonatas for Violoncello
Brand: Cello Classics
SKU: CC1001CD
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20 May 2025

ArtistsStringsCelloBoccherini: Five Sonatas for Violoncello

Boccherini: Five Sonatas for Violoncello

Sebastian Comberti (cello)
Ruth Alford (cello)
Elizabeth Kenny (guitar, archlute)

For the first release, Cello Classics has chosen to bring out something of a coup, in hitherto unplayed works by the first great composer for the cello to achieve universal recognition, Luigi Boccherini. Three of the sonatas on this disc have been obtained from manuscripts until recently in a private collection, and provide a wonderful addition to the classical cello repertoire. Sebastian Comberti has been involved in the period instrument revival in London since the early 1980s and has made the study of late 18th Century cello repertoire something of a speciality. This recording has been made using original instruments with a continuo team unusually comprising archlute/guitar and cello, providing a rich and yet light accompaniment to these delightful works. It is bound to be of interest to lovers of the cello and scholars alike.

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Luigi Boccherini: Cello Sonata in D major, G. 564

I. Allegro

II. Cantabile

III. Rondo

Luigi Boccherini: Cello Sonata in G minor, G. 562

I. Allegro

II. Adagio

III. Presto

Luigi Boccherini: Cello Sonata in E flat major, G. 567

I. Andante

II. Largo

III. Allegro

Luigi Boccherini: Cello Sonata No. 2 in C major, G. 6

I. Allegro

II. Largo

III. Allegro moderato

Luigi Boccherini: Cello Sonata in G major, G. 5

I. Allegro militare

II. Largo

III. Tempo di minuetto

Recording Details

Recorded in All Saints Church, East Finchley, London, UK on 18th & 19th September 2000
Mastering: Adam Skeaping
Recording Engineering: Philip Stokes & Roy Mowatt

Sebastian Comberti

Born in London, Sebastian Comberti studied in Italy with Amedeo Baldovino and later with Derek Simpson and Sidney Griller at the Royal Academy of Music, from which he graduated in 1977.

In 1976 he became a founder member of the Bochmann Quartet, giving concerts throughout the British Isles and in Europe. In 1983 he was appointed principal cello with the London Mozart Players with whom he has appeared on numerous occasions as soloist.

As a member of several chamber groups, he has recorded for CPO, CRD, EMI, Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Meridian, Phoenix and RCA.
A keen interest in historically informed performance has resulted in partici-pation with a great many of London’s period instrument groups, frequently appearing as principal cello with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and soloist with the Hanover Band. Research into early cello repertoire has led to several recitals being recorded by the BBC.

The cello by Francesco Rugeri used by Sebastian Comberti on this recording dates from circa 1680 and was kindly loaned by the Royal Academy of Music, London. It has been returned to its original condition, and was strung with two gut and two silver-wound gut strings.

Ruth Alford / Elizabeth Kenny

Ruth Alford has been specialising in period instrument performance since the early 1990s, after establishing herself as continuo cellist and chamber musician with many orchestras and ensembles in London. She graduated from Manchester University with an honours degree in Music, having studied with Bernard Gregor-Smith and the Lindsay String Quartet. Further studies followed with David Strange, the Amadeus Quartet, Jenny Ward-Clarke and William Pleeth. She now performs and records regularly as a principal player with the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique as well as other period instrument ensembles, including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Brandenburg Consort and the Revolutionary Drawing Room.

Elizabeth Kenny has established herself as one of the UK’s foremost lute players. Her solo repertoire ranges from the renaissance to the eighteenth century. She is in great demand as a continuo player with the leading London period instrument ensembles (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Gabrieli Consort, Taverner Players etc.), and has been a regular part of William Christi’s Les Arts Florissants since 1993. With these ensembles she has made dozens of recordings for CD, radio and television, and toured throughout Europe, North America and Japan.

She plays chamber music with Monica Huggett’s The Great Consort and with the viol consorts Concordia (UK) and L’Ensemble Orlando Gibbons (France).

Elizabeth Kenny is professor of Lute at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she also advises on English song and French baroque repertoire. She gives monthly classes at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin.