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Download Booklet 553572bk Boccherini 06/06/2003 2:57 pm Page 12 DDD Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) 8.553572 Cello Concertos Vol. 2 BOCCHERINI Tim Hugh, Cello • Scottish Chamber Orchestra Anthony Halstead, Conductor Cello Concertos Vol. 2 Cello Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, G. 474 21:23 Nos. 5-8 1 IAllegro moderato 9:18 2 II Largo 7:17 Tim Hugh, Cello 3 III Rondo: Allegro 4:44 Scottish Chamber Orchestra Concerto No. 6 in A major, G. 475 13:07 Anthony Halstead, Conductor 4 IAllegro 5:19 5 II Adagio 4:14 6 III Rondo: Allegro 3:29 Concerto No. 7 in D major, G. 476 15:58 7 IAllegro 6:38 8 II Largo 5:14 9 III Allegro a piacere 3:59 Concerto No. 8 in D major, G.478 24:48 0 IAllegro con spirito 7:34 ! II Larghetto 7:01 @ III Rondo (Comodo assai) 5:17 # IV Rondo 4:44 8.553572 12 553572bk Boccherini 06/06/2003 2:57 pm Page 2 Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) soliste et l’orchestre se partagent la présentation Concerto no.8 en ré majeur a longtemps été Cello Concertos Vol. 2 du thème principal qui apparaît à six reprises. l’objet d’une controverse, et il semblerait, L’auditeur constatera dans le premier épisode les d’après une note trouvée dans le manuscrit de Luigi Boccherini was born in Tuscany in seemingly in 1768 that Boccherini and Manfredi incursions du violoncelle dans le registre grave, Prague, qu’il s’agisse en fait de propositions 1743, in the beautiful old walled town of Lucca travelled to Madrid, very probably with the d’autant plus remarquables que Boccherini différentes à ajouter aux deux premiers and died in Madrid in 1805. His was a cultured promise of enthusiastic patronage from the utilise plus communément la tessiture aigüe de mouvements. L’Allegro con spirito s’ouvre sur le family. His elder brother Giovanni Gastone, Spanish court. Boccherini’s principal patron was l’instrument. Le Concerto pour Violoncelle no.7 thème du premier Concerto pour violoncelle en distinguished as a dancer and choreographer, was the Spanish Infante Don Luis for whom he wrote en ré majeur est différent du précédent, do majeur, en fait l’un des nombreux emprunts also a poet and wrote opera libretti for Salieri, many new works. In the circumstances in which notamment grâce aux flûtes dont l’intervention du compositeurs. Le thème original est cependant among others, and the text of Joseph Haydn’s he found himself he was able to continue his crée une sonorité particulière. Le long tutti de beaucoup plus étendu et tout le mouvement est oratorio Il ritorno di Tobia. His sister, a dancer in particular interest in chamber music, as shown in l’orchestre qui commence la pièce comporte d’une toute autre dimension que la version Vienna, married Onorato Viganò and was the his first Paris publications, embarking on his plusieurs idées thématiques à la dominante avant précédente. Dans le majestueux Larghetto, il mother of the famous dancer and choreographer famous series of string quintets, with a de revenir à la tonalité de départ quand intervient convient de noter les chromatismes éloquents qui Salvatore Viganò. His father was a professional concertante first cello part. le violoncelle solo. Quelques uns des thèmes se dissolvent en séquences de suspensions double bass player and Luigi Boccherini himself Boccherini followed the Infante Don Luis to apparaissant dans ce mouvement permettent un magnifiquement équilibrées et expressives. Le made his début as a cellist at the age of thirteen. Avila, after the latter’s marriage earned official dialogue entre les flûtes et le registre aigu du Rondo (Comodo assai), en 3/4, commence à la In 1757 he went to study in Rome but had only disapproval, but after the death of the Infante in violoncelle, et ces échanges semblent en fait manière d’un Menuet aristocratique, comprenant been there a few months when both he and his 1785 he was granted a pension of half his salary constituer l’intérêt principal de ce concerto, les toutes les reprises d’usage, puis se développe father were summoned to Vienna to play in the by the King. In 1786 he was appointed chamber contrastes apparaissant aussi dans la texture progressivement pour devenir une pièce court orchestra. Although barely fifteen years old, composer to the heir to the Prussian throne, an orchestrale elle-même. Le tissu harmonique clair épisodique où le thème du début revient trois his performance apparently made a deep enthusiastic amateur cellist, who in the following et simple du Largo permet au violoncelle de fois. Le ‘deuxième’ Rondo (troisième impression on the Viennese musical year succeeded his uncle as Friedrich Wilhelm II dessiner de délicates et vives arabesques sur de mouvement de l’édition), en 4/4 est très étendu et establishment, which suggests that this reportedly of Prussia. There is no record, however, of any lents changements d’accords. Le Finale (Allegro comporte un épisode en mineur ainsi qu’un bref very amiable and affable young virtuoso had visit by Boccherini to the court in Berlin. He con piacere) n’a pas de structure stricte, les mais charmant passage donné aux vents qui plenty of opportunity to shine as a soloist in sought a renewal of his appointment in 1798, quatre apparitions du thème laissant place à des constitue un moment délicieux et surprenant. concertos and in chamber music. after the death of the king, but this was not variations. From this time onwards Boccherini’s life was granted. According to later members of his family La présence de deux Rondos dans le Traduction Claire Rottembourg-Goldberg a very busy one and involved much travelling. He Boccherini was offered a teaching position at the returned to Lucca on various occasions, finally, in new Conservatoire in Paris, where his music 1764, taking up a position in the musical enjoyed considerable esteem, but graciously establishment and retaining his connection there declined the offer. In Madrid, however, he had for for the following three years. In 1766 he some years enjoyed the support of private patrons embarked on an extended concert tour with the and was employed by the French ambassador to Lucca violinist Filippo Manfredi, reaching Paris Spain, Lucien Bonaparte, who reached Madrid in 1767. Here he had some of his works published late in 1800. and appeared with Manfredi at the Concerts Throughout his life Boccherini pursued his spirituels, among other engagements. It was concert career with enormous energy and at the 8.553572 2 11 8.553572 553572bk Boccherini 06/06/2003 2:57 pm Page 10 duchesse commandite à Boccherini un opéra, La l’époque, que deux hautbois, deux cors et le same time wrote a quite unbelievable amount of developed in the cadenza to this movement. The Clementina, sur un livret de Ramon de la Cruz, quatuor à cordes. Il est cependant à noter que le music. In his last years, no longer playing but still Largo opens with some surprising chromaticisms qui n’est représenté qu’une seule fois sur la scène compositeur exploite la riche sonorité des tuttis composing, he appeared to be living in reduced in the orchestra but with the entry of the solo cello de son palais. de l’orchestre, puis la réduit au moment des circumstances, in some financial difficulties and we are treated to a broad melodic line, beautifully Jusqu’en 1802, Boccherini compose pour interventions du soliste, comme il le fait du reste no doubt suffering from the recent death of his extended and somewhat Handelian in spirit. The l’ambassadeur de France, Lucien Bonaparte, dans tous ses concertos. Le développement du second wife and also of two daughters. He died in rondo Finale has great panache and is a real pour qui il écrit six quintettes avec pianoforte premier mouvement de forme sonate est 1805. display piece. After the third of the four qu’il dédie à la nation française et à la relativement étendu. Le sujet principal, proposé Boccherini made an incomplete thematic appearances of the ebullient main theme the third République, mais il voit bientôt ses émoluments par le violoncelle, est un motif grave arpégé, catalogue of his own works but this was episode features a dazzling display of cellistic diminuer et sombrer dans une grande pauvreté. Il dialoguant par la suite avec une ligne mélodique destroyed in the turmoil of the Spanish civil war. virtuosity before the cadenza and the vivacious accepte même d’arranger ses œuvres pour la plus aigüe. Cette ‘conversation’ est reprise et Only in 1969 did Yves Gérard publish a new coda which ends this work. guitare, à la demande du Marquis Benavente et amplifiée dans la cadence finale du mouvement. catalogue of the complete œuvre, listing eleven Cello Concerto No. 6 in A major is a shorter de ses amis. Plusieurs de ses enfants, et sa Ce sont les chromatismes surprenants de concertos. The twelfth cello concerto was only work whose first movement is a transcription of femme, meurent dans la même année, et l’orchestre qui ouvrent le Largo, mais le discovered in 1987 in a library in Naples. The the composer’s own Cello Sonata No. 1 in the Boccherini, affaibli, s’éteint le 28 mai 1805, à violoncelle propose bientôt une ligne mélodique twelve known cello concertos are all probably same key. So the cello enters after only ten bars l’âge de soixante-deux ans. magnifiquement développée d’esprit handélien. quite youthful works, written before he settled in with a repetition of the principal subject. The En 1987 fut retrouvé dans une bibliothèque Le Finale est un Rondo de caractère et de grande Madrid.
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