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Wolfgang Lehner Giacomo FACCO (1676-1753): Balletto No. 3 in C major for two cellos * 7:26 Wolfgang Lehner was born in Ulm, in Germany, and started to learn the cello with his father at the age of five, later 1 3 BOCCHERINI studying with Eduard Jäger, Fred Buck, Josef Chuchro and Julius Berger. He enjoys an international career as a Preludio 1:02 Sarabanda 2:00 soloist and chamber-music player. He has appeared with the pianist Madeleine Stucki in the Duo Clavicelli, the 2 Allemanda 2:11 4 Gavotta 2:13 Tirtton Cello Ensemble, the Hess Radio Orchestra, and the German Chamber Orchestra, in addition to collaboration Cello Sonatas with the World Cello Congress in St Petersburg and Baltimore and appearances in festivals at Evian, and Seoul, and Domenico PORRETTI (d. 1783): Sonata in D major for cello and continuo * 19:04 in concert with Rostropovich, Istomin and Montserrat Caballé at the Museo Pau Casals. He is director and professor at the Emanuel Feuermann Conservatory in Kronberg and gives classes at the Mannheim Musikhochschule. He 5 Andante 6:27 7 Adagio 2:29 Josep Bassal and Wolfgang Lehner, Cellos plays a Stradivarius cello made in 1735. 6 Allegro 7:31 8 Allegro 2:38

Luigi BOCCHERINI (1743-1805): Arpegio Armónico Sonata in C major for cello and continuo, G. 74 13:59 Josep Bassal and Wolfgang Lehner are also known as Arpegio Armónico, a chamber group dedicated principally to 9 Allegro 5:26 ! Allegro 4:18 the promotion of Spanish baroque and classical cello music, a repertoire largely unknown, except for the work of Boccherini. Arpegio Armónico has recorded works by Facco, Porretti and Pablo Vidal, and recently discovered 0 Largo 4:16 works by Boccherini. Sonata in G major for cello and continuo, G. 5 13:00 @ Largo 2:56 $ Menuetto 3:35 # Allegro alla Militaire 6:29

Sonata in C minor for cello and continuo * 13:14 % Andantino 5:49 & Allegretto 4:49 ^ Adagio 2:36

* Pablo VIDAL (d. 1808): Andante Gracioso for cello and continuo * 5:18

* World première recordings

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Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805) company that included his friend, the painter Goya. At concertos and more than 32 cello sonatas. The three also announced the sale of a concerto of his, with a (Harmonic Arpeggio for Cello and Bass), the source Cello Sonatas the same time he was appointed court composer to sonatas included here represent, in the Sonata in C Cello Method advertised eight days later. In of the present Andante gracioso. Friedrich Wilhelm, nephew of Frederick the Great, major, the young composer, the writer of descriptive September 1798 he announced in the Gaceta a work The Italian cellist and composer Luigi Boccherini was that year he went with Manfredi to Genoa, where he who succeeded his uncle as King of Prussia in 1787. In music in his Allegro alla Militaire in the Sonata in G called Arpegio Armónico de violonchelo y bajo Josep Bassal and Keith Anderson born in Lucca in 1743, the son of a double-bass player. seems to have composed at least one of his two this latter position he provided the cello-playing king major, with its eighteenth-century battle, its ordered His family was distinguished not only in music but also oratorios for the Oratorians. In the autumn of 1767 he with new compositions under the same kind of battalions, drum-rolls and the battlefield itself. The boasted poets and dancers among its members. His set out from Genoa with Manfredi, with the intention exclusive arrangement as that which he had earlier recently discovered Sonata in C minor shows the elder brother Giovanni Gastone, born in 1742, was of travelling to London, staying first in Nice and then enjoyed with Don Luis. There is, however, no evidence influence of Spain, with a final movement suggesting a both dancer and poet, the author of the text of Haydn’s for some six months in Paris, where they won that Boccherini ever spent any time in Prussia. After Spanish dance. Il ritorno di Tobia and of the libretti of some earlier considerable success. Here Boccherini’s first set of six the death of King Carlos III in 1788, the new king, The composer, keyboard-player, violinist and stage works of the Vienna court composer, Antonio string quartets was published, and sets of string trios. Carlos IV, established a chamber ensemble and in 1795 cellist Giacomo Facco was one of the many Italian Josep Bassal Salieri. He later became official poet of the Coliseo de In France Boccherini and Manfredi won considerable a chamber orchestra, in neither of which Boccherini musicians working in the eighteenth century at the los Caños del Peral in Madrid, a theatre to the concerts success and Boccherini himself also continued his was involved. With the unexpected death of Friedrich Spanish court. He served as a member of the Capilla Josep Bassal was born in Barcelona and had his first cello lessons from his father, later studying with Ricard in which Boccherini had contributed music. His sister work as a composer, in addition to his performances as Wilhelm II in 1797 Boccherini’s employment there Real and taught the children of Don Luis and Don Boadella and Radu Aldulescu, also taking classes with Antonio Janigro, Cristophe Coin, and Anner Bylsma. His Maria Ester was a dancer and married Onorato Viganò, a virtuoso. In 1768 the pair left for Spain, appearing came to an end, when his request for a continuation of Carlos, the future King Luis I and King Carlos III. The career as a soloist and chamber-music player has taken him to 25 countries, with performances in major concert a distinguished dancer and choreographer. Her son, first at court with an Italian opera company. his position and a pension was refused, while the Balletti a due violoncelli are the first works for cello halls, including the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Palau de la Musica Catalana, and the Detroit Orchestra Hall, and in Salvatore Viganò, who studied composition with Establishing himself in Madrid, Boccherini was Benavente-Osuna family moved to Paris in 1799. that we know of that were written in Spain. The six festivals including the Maggio Fiorentino, and Viva Cello in Switzerland. He is a founder member of the Luigi Boccherini, occupies a position of considerable appointed composer and virtuoso di camera to the Boccherini received support from Lucien Bonaparte, suites were written about 1723 with the two cellos Boccherini Association in Madrid. He plays a late eighteenth-century instrument by Giuseppe and Antonio importance in the history of ballet. Infante Don Luis, younger brother of King Carlos III, the French ambassador, and remained busy to the end treated as a duo, an unusual procedure at this period Gagliano. By the age of thirteen Boccherini was appearing in after a cooler reception from the King and the Prince of of his life, although visitors reported that he lived in all A cellist in the Capilla Real between 1734 and concerts as a cellist. In 1757 he went with his father the Asturias, his heir. Part of the following period he the appearance of poverty, now without any substantial 1783, Domenico Porretti enjoyed a considerable and older brother and sister to Venice and Trieste and spent in Madrid and part at the Palace of Arenas de San patronage after Lucien Bonaparte’s return to Paris and reputation as a player and was much admired by the the following year he appeared with his father in Pedro in the province of Avila, where the Infante saddened by the death of his second wife and his famous singer Farinelli. He seems to have written 24 Vienna, where they were both invited to join the court retired after a morganatic marriage. Members of the remaining daughters. He died in Madrid on 28th May cello concertos and a work for four cellos mentioned orchestra, returning to Vienna for two further seasons Font family were employed by the Prince as a string 1805. by Padre Antonio Soler, the whereabouts of all of in 1760-1761 and 1763-1764. In the intervening quartet, for which Boccherini wrote quartets and with Boccherini’s style is completely characteristic of which are unknown. The sonata included here was periods he appeared in Lucca and in Florence. In 1764 whom he performed his own string quintets. He the period in which he lived, the period, that is, of published very recently and was found in the collection Boccherini succeeded in achieving appointment as a renewed his association with Francisco Font in later Haydn, rather than that of Mozart or Beethoven. He of scores at the castle of Schönborn-Wiesentheit in cellist in the Cappella Palatina in Lucca and undertook years. After the death of Don Luis in 1785, Boccherini, enjoyed a reputation for his facility as a composer, Germany. Porretti was the father of Joaquina, engagements in Padua and Cremona, among other who had spent some fifteen years in his service, leaving some 460 or so compositions. A great deal of Boccherini’s second wife. places. In 1766 he joined with his fellow-townsman, received a pension from the king and the promise of a his music is designed to exploit the technical resources First cellist at the Convent of the Incarnation and the violinist Manfredi, leader of the Cappella Palatina, position in the Real Capilla that was not fulfilled. He of the cello, in concertos, sonatas, and, particularly, in of the Duke of Osuna, Pablo Vidal served in the Casa the latter’s teacher Nardini and the composer and found employment, however, with the Benavente- chamber music for various numbers of instruments, de Osuna orchestra directed by Boccherini and lived in viola-player Cambini in serious study and performance Osuna family in Madrid, directing the orchestra of the including a remarkable series of works for string Madrid at Leganitos No.22, 4º Principal. Otherwise we of the quartets of Haydn and of Boccherini’s own early Countess-Duchess and providing music for her salon. quintet with two cellos, the first of which is given a know relatively little about him. He offered two cellos quartets, and after the death of his father in August of Here he was one of a distinguished international concertante part. His works include twelve cello for sale in the Diario de Madrid on 15th April 1796 and

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Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805) company that included his friend, the painter Goya. At concertos and more than 32 cello sonatas. The three also announced the sale of a concerto of his, with a (Harmonic Arpeggio for Cello and Bass), the source Cello Sonatas the same time he was appointed court composer to sonatas included here represent, in the Sonata in C Cello Method advertised eight days later. In of the present Andante gracioso. Friedrich Wilhelm, nephew of Frederick the Great, major, the young composer, the writer of descriptive September 1798 he announced in the Gaceta a work The Italian cellist and composer Luigi Boccherini was that year he went with Manfredi to Genoa, where he who succeeded his uncle as King of Prussia in 1787. In music in his Allegro alla Militaire in the Sonata in G called Arpegio Armónico de violonchelo y bajo Josep Bassal and Keith Anderson born in Lucca in 1743, the son of a double-bass player. seems to have composed at least one of his two this latter position he provided the cello-playing king major, with its eighteenth-century battle, its ordered His family was distinguished not only in music but also oratorios for the Oratorians. In the autumn of 1767 he with new compositions under the same kind of battalions, drum-rolls and the battlefield itself. The boasted poets and dancers among its members. His set out from Genoa with Manfredi, with the intention exclusive arrangement as that which he had earlier recently discovered Sonata in C minor shows the elder brother Giovanni Gastone, born in 1742, was of travelling to London, staying first in Nice and then enjoyed with Don Luis. There is, however, no evidence influence of Spain, with a final movement suggesting a both dancer and poet, the author of the text of Haydn’s for some six months in Paris, where they won that Boccherini ever spent any time in Prussia. After Spanish dance. Il ritorno di Tobia and of the libretti of some earlier considerable success. Here Boccherini’s first set of six the death of King Carlos III in 1788, the new king, The composer, keyboard-player, violinist and stage works of the Vienna court composer, Antonio string quartets was published, and sets of string trios. Carlos IV, established a chamber ensemble and in 1795 cellist Giacomo Facco was one of the many Italian Josep Bassal Salieri. He later became official poet of the Coliseo de In France Boccherini and Manfredi won considerable a chamber orchestra, in neither of which Boccherini musicians working in the eighteenth century at the los Caños del Peral in Madrid, a theatre to the concerts success and Boccherini himself also continued his was involved. With the unexpected death of Friedrich Spanish court. He served as a member of the Capilla Josep Bassal was born in Barcelona and had his first cello lessons from his father, later studying with Ricard in which Boccherini had contributed music. His sister work as a composer, in addition to his performances as Wilhelm II in 1797 Boccherini’s employment there Real and taught the children of Don Luis and Don Boadella and Radu Aldulescu, also taking classes with Antonio Janigro, Cristophe Coin, and Anner Bylsma. His Maria Ester was a dancer and married Onorato Viganò, a virtuoso. In 1768 the pair left for Spain, appearing came to an end, when his request for a continuation of Carlos, the future King Luis I and King Carlos III. The career as a soloist and chamber-music player has taken him to 25 countries, with performances in major concert a distinguished dancer and choreographer. Her son, first at court with an Italian opera company. his position and a pension was refused, while the Balletti a due violoncelli are the first works for cello halls, including the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Palau de la Musica Catalana, and the Detroit Orchestra Hall, and in Salvatore Viganò, who studied composition with Establishing himself in Madrid, Boccherini was Benavente-Osuna family moved to Paris in 1799. that we know of that were written in Spain. The six festivals including the Maggio Fiorentino, and Viva Cello in Switzerland. He is a founder member of the Luigi Boccherini, occupies a position of considerable appointed composer and virtuoso di camera to the Boccherini received support from Lucien Bonaparte, suites were written about 1723 with the two cellos Boccherini Association in Madrid. He plays a late eighteenth-century instrument by Giuseppe and Antonio importance in the history of ballet. Infante Don Luis, younger brother of King Carlos III, the French ambassador, and remained busy to the end treated as a duo, an unusual procedure at this period Gagliano. By the age of thirteen Boccherini was appearing in after a cooler reception from the King and the Prince of of his life, although visitors reported that he lived in all A cellist in the Capilla Real between 1734 and concerts as a cellist. In 1757 he went with his father the Asturias, his heir. Part of the following period he the appearance of poverty, now without any substantial 1783, Domenico Porretti enjoyed a considerable and older brother and sister to Venice and Trieste and spent in Madrid and part at the Palace of Arenas de San patronage after Lucien Bonaparte’s return to Paris and reputation as a player and was much admired by the the following year he appeared with his father in Pedro in the province of Avila, where the Infante saddened by the death of his second wife and his famous singer Farinelli. He seems to have written 24 Vienna, where they were both invited to join the court retired after a morganatic marriage. Members of the remaining daughters. He died in Madrid on 28th May cello concertos and a work for four cellos mentioned orchestra, returning to Vienna for two further seasons Font family were employed by the Prince as a string 1805. by Padre Antonio Soler, the whereabouts of all of in 1760-1761 and 1763-1764. In the intervening quartet, for which Boccherini wrote quartets and with Boccherini’s style is completely characteristic of which are unknown. The sonata included here was periods he appeared in Lucca and in Florence. In 1764 whom he performed his own string quintets. He the period in which he lived, the period, that is, of published very recently and was found in the collection Boccherini succeeded in achieving appointment as a renewed his association with Francisco Font in later Haydn, rather than that of Mozart or Beethoven. He of scores at the castle of Schönborn-Wiesentheit in cellist in the Cappella Palatina in Lucca and undertook years. After the death of Don Luis in 1785, Boccherini, enjoyed a reputation for his facility as a composer, Germany. Porretti was the father of Joaquina, engagements in Padua and Cremona, among other who had spent some fifteen years in his service, leaving some 460 or so compositions. A great deal of Boccherini’s second wife. places. In 1766 he joined with his fellow-townsman, received a pension from the king and the promise of a his music is designed to exploit the technical resources First cellist at the Convent of the Incarnation and the violinist Manfredi, leader of the Cappella Palatina, position in the Real Capilla that was not fulfilled. He of the cello, in concertos, sonatas, and, particularly, in of the Duke of Osuna, Pablo Vidal served in the Casa the latter’s teacher Nardini and the composer and found employment, however, with the Benavente- chamber music for various numbers of instruments, de Osuna orchestra directed by Boccherini and lived in viola-player Cambini in serious study and performance Osuna family in Madrid, directing the orchestra of the including a remarkable series of works for string Madrid at Leganitos No.22, 4º Principal. Otherwise we of the quartets of Haydn and of Boccherini’s own early Countess-Duchess and providing music for her salon. quintet with two cellos, the first of which is given a know relatively little about him. He offered two cellos quartets, and after the death of his father in August of Here he was one of a distinguished international concertante part. His works include twelve cello for sale in the Diario de Madrid on 15th April 1796 and

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Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805) company that included his friend, the painter Goya. At concertos and more than 32 cello sonatas. The three also announced the sale of a concerto of his, with a (Harmonic Arpeggio for Cello and Bass), the source Cello Sonatas the same time he was appointed court composer to sonatas included here represent, in the Sonata in C Cello Method advertised eight days later. In of the present Andante gracioso. Friedrich Wilhelm, nephew of Frederick the Great, major, the young composer, the writer of descriptive September 1798 he announced in the Gaceta a work The Italian cellist and composer Luigi Boccherini was that year he went with Manfredi to Genoa, where he who succeeded his uncle as King of Prussia in 1787. In music in his Allegro alla Militaire in the Sonata in G called Arpegio Armónico de violonchelo y bajo Josep Bassal and Keith Anderson born in Lucca in 1743, the son of a double-bass player. seems to have composed at least one of his two this latter position he provided the cello-playing king major, with its eighteenth-century battle, its ordered His family was distinguished not only in music but also oratorios for the Oratorians. In the autumn of 1767 he with new compositions under the same kind of battalions, drum-rolls and the battlefield itself. The boasted poets and dancers among its members. His set out from Genoa with Manfredi, with the intention exclusive arrangement as that which he had earlier recently discovered Sonata in C minor shows the elder brother Giovanni Gastone, born in 1742, was of travelling to London, staying first in Nice and then enjoyed with Don Luis. There is, however, no evidence influence of Spain, with a final movement suggesting a both dancer and poet, the author of the text of Haydn’s for some six months in Paris, where they won that Boccherini ever spent any time in Prussia. After Spanish dance. Il ritorno di Tobia and of the libretti of some earlier considerable success. Here Boccherini’s first set of six the death of King Carlos III in 1788, the new king, The composer, keyboard-player, violinist and stage works of the Vienna court composer, Antonio string quartets was published, and sets of string trios. Carlos IV, established a chamber ensemble and in 1795 cellist Giacomo Facco was one of the many Italian Josep Bassal Salieri. He later became official poet of the Coliseo de In France Boccherini and Manfredi won considerable a chamber orchestra, in neither of which Boccherini musicians working in the eighteenth century at the los Caños del Peral in Madrid, a theatre to the concerts success and Boccherini himself also continued his was involved. With the unexpected death of Friedrich Spanish court. He served as a member of the Capilla Josep Bassal was born in Barcelona and had his first cello lessons from his father, later studying with Ricard in which Boccherini had contributed music. His sister work as a composer, in addition to his performances as Wilhelm II in 1797 Boccherini’s employment there Real and taught the children of Don Luis and Don Boadella and Radu Aldulescu, also taking classes with Antonio Janigro, Cristophe Coin, and Anner Bylsma. His Maria Ester was a dancer and married Onorato Viganò, a virtuoso. In 1768 the pair left for Spain, appearing came to an end, when his request for a continuation of Carlos, the future King Luis I and King Carlos III. The career as a soloist and chamber-music player has taken him to 25 countries, with performances in major concert a distinguished dancer and choreographer. Her son, first at court with an Italian opera company. his position and a pension was refused, while the Balletti a due violoncelli are the first works for cello halls, including the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Palau de la Musica Catalana, and the Detroit Orchestra Hall, and in Salvatore Viganò, who studied composition with Establishing himself in Madrid, Boccherini was Benavente-Osuna family moved to Paris in 1799. that we know of that were written in Spain. The six festivals including the Maggio Fiorentino, and Viva Cello in Switzerland. He is a founder member of the Luigi Boccherini, occupies a position of considerable appointed composer and virtuoso di camera to the Boccherini received support from Lucien Bonaparte, suites were written about 1723 with the two cellos Boccherini Association in Madrid. He plays a late eighteenth-century instrument by Giuseppe and Antonio importance in the history of ballet. Infante Don Luis, younger brother of King Carlos III, the French ambassador, and remained busy to the end treated as a duo, an unusual procedure at this period Gagliano. By the age of thirteen Boccherini was appearing in after a cooler reception from the King and the Prince of of his life, although visitors reported that he lived in all A cellist in the Capilla Real between 1734 and concerts as a cellist. In 1757 he went with his father the Asturias, his heir. Part of the following period he the appearance of poverty, now without any substantial 1783, Domenico Porretti enjoyed a considerable and older brother and sister to Venice and Trieste and spent in Madrid and part at the Palace of Arenas de San patronage after Lucien Bonaparte’s return to Paris and reputation as a player and was much admired by the the following year he appeared with his father in Pedro in the province of Avila, where the Infante saddened by the death of his second wife and his famous singer Farinelli. He seems to have written 24 Vienna, where they were both invited to join the court retired after a morganatic marriage. Members of the remaining daughters. He died in Madrid on 28th May cello concertos and a work for four cellos mentioned orchestra, returning to Vienna for two further seasons Font family were employed by the Prince as a string 1805. by Padre Antonio Soler, the whereabouts of all of in 1760-1761 and 1763-1764. In the intervening quartet, for which Boccherini wrote quartets and with Boccherini’s style is completely characteristic of which are unknown. The sonata included here was periods he appeared in Lucca and in Florence. In 1764 whom he performed his own string quintets. He the period in which he lived, the period, that is, of published very recently and was found in the collection Boccherini succeeded in achieving appointment as a renewed his association with Francisco Font in later Haydn, rather than that of Mozart or Beethoven. He of scores at the castle of Schönborn-Wiesentheit in cellist in the Cappella Palatina in Lucca and undertook years. After the death of Don Luis in 1785, Boccherini, enjoyed a reputation for his facility as a composer, Germany. Porretti was the father of Joaquina, engagements in Padua and Cremona, among other who had spent some fifteen years in his service, leaving some 460 or so compositions. A great deal of Boccherini’s second wife. places. In 1766 he joined with his fellow-townsman, received a pension from the king and the promise of a his music is designed to exploit the technical resources First cellist at the Convent of the Incarnation and the violinist Manfredi, leader of the Cappella Palatina, position in the Real Capilla that was not fulfilled. He of the cello, in concertos, sonatas, and, particularly, in of the Duke of Osuna, Pablo Vidal served in the Casa the latter’s teacher Nardini and the composer and found employment, however, with the Benavente- chamber music for various numbers of instruments, de Osuna orchestra directed by Boccherini and lived in viola-player Cambini in serious study and performance Osuna family in Madrid, directing the orchestra of the including a remarkable series of works for string Madrid at Leganitos No.22, 4º Principal. Otherwise we of the quartets of Haydn and of Boccherini’s own early Countess-Duchess and providing music for her salon. quintet with two cellos, the first of which is given a know relatively little about him. He offered two cellos quartets, and after the death of his father in August of Here he was one of a distinguished international concertante part. His works include twelve cello for sale in the Diario de Madrid on 15th April 1796 and

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Wolfgang Lehner Giacomo FACCO (1676-1753): Balletto No. 3 in C major for two cellos * 7:26 Wolfgang Lehner was born in Ulm, in Germany, and started to learn the cello with his father at the age of five, later 1 3 BOCCHERINI studying with Eduard Jäger, Fred Buck, Josef Chuchro and Julius Berger. He enjoys an international career as a Preludio 1:02 Sarabanda 2:00 soloist and chamber-music player. He has appeared with the pianist Madeleine Stucki in the Duo Clavicelli, the 2 Allemanda 2:11 4 Gavotta 2:13 Tirtton Cello Ensemble, the Hess Radio Orchestra, and the German Chamber Orchestra, in addition to collaboration Cello Sonatas with the World Cello Congress in St Petersburg and Baltimore and appearances in festivals at Evian, and Seoul, and Domenico PORRETTI (d. 1783): Sonata in D major for cello and continuo * 19:04 in concert with Rostropovich, Istomin and Montserrat Caballé at the Museo Pau Casals. He is director and professor at the Emanuel Feuermann Conservatory in Kronberg and gives classes at the Mannheim Musikhochschule. He 5 Andante 6:27 7 Adagio 2:29 Josep Bassal and Wolfgang Lehner, Cellos plays a Stradivarius cello made in 1735. 6 Allegro 7:31 8 Allegro 2:38

Luigi BOCCHERINI (1743-1805): Arpegio Armónico Sonata in C major for cello and continuo, G. 74 13:59 Josep Bassal and Wolfgang Lehner are also known as Arpegio Armónico, a chamber group dedicated principally to 9 Allegro 5:26 ! Allegro 4:18 the promotion of Spanish baroque and classical cello music, a repertoire largely unknown, except for the work of Boccherini. Arpegio Armónico has recorded works by Facco, Porretti and Pablo Vidal, and recently discovered 0 Largo 4:16 works by Boccherini. Sonata in G major for cello and continuo, G. 5 13:00 @ Largo 2:56 $ Menuetto 3:35 # Allegro alla Militaire 6:29

Sonata in C minor for cello and continuo * 13:14 % Andantino 5:49 & Allegretto 4:49 ^ Adagio 2:36

* Pablo VIDAL (d. 1808): Andante Gracioso for cello and continuo * 5:18

* World première recordings

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Wolfgang Lehner Giacomo FACCO (1676-1753): Balletto No. 3 in C major for two cellos * 7:26 Wolfgang Lehner was born in Ulm, in Germany, and started to learn the cello with his father at the age of five, later 1 3 BOCCHERINI studying with Eduard Jäger, Fred Buck, Josef Chuchro and Julius Berger. He enjoys an international career as a Preludio 1:02 Sarabanda 2:00 soloist and chamber-music player. He has appeared with the pianist Madeleine Stucki in the Duo Clavicelli, the 2 Allemanda 2:11 4 Gavotta 2:13 Tirtton Cello Ensemble, the Hess Radio Orchestra, and the German Chamber Orchestra, in addition to collaboration Cello Sonatas with the World Cello Congress in St Petersburg and Baltimore and appearances in festivals at Evian, and Seoul, and Domenico PORRETTI (d. 1783): Sonata in D major for cello and continuo * 19:04 in concert with Rostropovich, Istomin and Montserrat Caballé at the Museo Pau Casals. He is director and professor at the Emanuel Feuermann Conservatory in Kronberg and gives classes at the Mannheim Musikhochschule. He 5 Andante 6:27 7 Adagio 2:29 Josep Bassal and Wolfgang Lehner, Cellos plays a Stradivarius cello made in 1735. 6 Allegro 7:31 8 Allegro 2:38

Luigi BOCCHERINI (1743-1805): Arpegio Armónico Sonata in C major for cello and continuo, G. 74 13:59 Josep Bassal and Wolfgang Lehner are also known as Arpegio Armónico, a chamber group dedicated principally to 9 Allegro 5:26 ! Allegro 4:18 the promotion of Spanish baroque and classical cello music, a repertoire largely unknown, except for the work of Boccherini. Arpegio Armónico has recorded works by Facco, Porretti and Pablo Vidal, and recently discovered 0 Largo 4:16 works by Boccherini. Sonata in G major for cello and continuo, G. 5 13:00 @ Largo 2:56 $ Menuetto 3:35 # Allegro alla Militaire 6:29

Sonata in C minor for cello and continuo * 13:14 % Andantino 5:49 & Allegretto 4:49 ^ Adagio 2:36

* Pablo VIDAL (d. 1808): Andante Gracioso for cello and continuo * 5:18

* World première recordings

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CMYK NAXOS NAXOS This recording of music by Boccherini and his contemporaries features works inspired by or written for the Spanish court and wealthy Spanish patrons. Of the three cello sonatas included here by Boccherini, the newly discovered (March 2004) Sonata in C minor, which here receives its world première recording, shows the influence of Spain, with a final movement suggesting a Spanish dance. The Sonata in G major, with its eighteenth-century battle, its ordered battalions, DDD BOCCHERINI: BOCCHERINI: drum-rolls and the battlefield itself, shows Boccherini to have been a consummate master of descriptive music. The Balletti a due violoncelli by Giacomo Facco, in which the two cellos, most 8.557795 unusually, are treated as a duo, are the first known works for cello that were written in Spain. Playing Time 72:04 Giacomo FACCO (1676-1753): 1-4 Balletto No. 3 in C major for two cellos * 7:26 Cello Sonatas Cello Sonatas Domenico PORRETTI (d. 1783): 5-8 Sonata in D major * 19:04 Luigi BOCCHERINI (1743-1805): 9-! Sonata in C major, G. 74 13:59 @-$ Sonata in G major, G. 5 13:00 www.naxos.com Made inCanada Booklet notesinEnglish &

%-& Sonata in C minor * 13:14 Pablo VIDAL (d. 1808): 2005 NaxosRightsInternationalLtd. * Andante Gracioso * 5:18 Josep Bassal and Wolfgang Lehner, Cellos * World première recordings

Recorded in L’Auditorium, Gerona, Spain, from 29th to 30th December, 2004 8.557795 and 19th to 20th February, 2005 • Producers: Josep Bassal and Wolfgang Lehner 8.557795 Engineers: Miquel Roger and Pere Casas • Booklet Notes: Josep Bassal and Keith Anderson Please see the booklet for a detailed track list • NIPO: 503-05-056-7 Cover Photograph: Peasants amongst Roman Ruins, 1743 by Giovanni Paolo Pannini (The Louvre, Paris, France / Bridgeman Art Library)