This is the first recording dedicated to J.B. Janson, virtuoso, composer and teacher of the second half of the 18th Century. Together with the Duport brothers, he was the major representative of the French cellist school, and in the year of the foundation of the Paris Conservatory he became it's first professor. Unjustly forgotten by history, his first compositions represent in an exemplary way the turning point of European musical taste from the Style Galant to Classicism. In these first two works, the wealth of technical innovations, as well as the narrative and visionary energy of musical inventions, lead us to think that the perfect alchemy arisen from the encounter of a brilliant and infinitely curious mind, which certainly was Berteau's, with the miracle of a child prodigy, ended up in an unfulfilled promise, a broken dream that dissolved into oblivion. Thus the famous Jansons will be forgotten, while the fame of the Duports lingers in the historical memory up to our days.

Tracklist:

Cello Sonata In D Major, Op. 1 No. 1: I. Allegro
Cello Sonata In D Major, Op. 1 No. 1: II. Adagio
Cello Sonata In D Major, Op. 1 No. 1: III. Presto
Cello Sonata In G Major, Op. 1 No. 2: I. Allegro
Cello Sonata In G Major, Op. 1 No. 2: II. Adagio
Cello Sonata In G Major, Op. 1 No. 2: III. Allegretto
Cello Sonata In C Major, Op. 1 No. 3: I. Allegro
Cello Sonata In C Major, Op. 1 No. 3: II. Adagio
Cello Sonata In C Major, Op. 1 No. 3: III. Minuetto Con Variazioni
Cello Sonata In B-Flat Major, Op. 1 No. 4: I. Allegro
Cello Sonata In B-Flat Major, Op. 1 No. 4: II. Adagio
Cello Sonata In B-Flat Major, Op. 1 No. 4: III. Allegro Non Troppo
Cello Sonata In A Major, Op. 1 No. 5: I. Allegro
Cello Sonata In A Major, Op. 1 No. 5: II. Andante
Cello Sonata In A Major, Op. 1 No. 5: III. Presto
Cello Sonata In D Major, Op. 1 No. 6: I. Allegro
Cello Sonata In D Major, Op. 1 No. 6: II. Adagio
Cello Sonata In D Major, Op. 1 No. 6: III. Minuetto Con Variazioni
Cello Sonata In C Major, Op. 2 No. 1: I. Allegro
Cello Sonata In C Major, Op. 2 No. 1: II. Andante In Rondeau
Cello Sonata In C Major, Op. 2 No. 1: III. Minuetto
Cello Sonata In D Minor, Op. 2 No. 2: I. Allegro
Cello Sonata In D Minor, Op. 2 No. 2: II. Adagio
Cello Sonata In D Minor, Op. 2 No. 2: III. Presto
Cello Sonata In D Major, Op. 2 No. 3: I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo
Cello Sonata In D Major, Op. 2 No. 3: II. Andantino
Cello Sonata In D Major, Op. 2 No. 3: III. Allegro Assai
Cello Sonata In B-Flat Major, Op. 2 No. 4: I. Allegro Moderato
Cello Sonata In B-Flat Major, Op. 2 No. 4: II. Adagio
Cello Sonata In B-Flat Major, Op. 2 No. 4: III. Allegro
Cello Sonata In A Major, Op. 2 No. 5: I. Allegro Comodo
Cello Sonata In A Major, Op. 2 No. 5: II. Aria Rondeau
Cello Sonata In A Major, Op. 2 No. 5: III. Allegro
Cello Sonata In G Major, Op. 2 No. 6: I. Allegro Non Tanto
Cello Sonata In G Major, Op. 2 No. 6: II. Adagio
Cello Sonata In G Major, Op. 2 No. 6: III. Allegro Non Tanto

UPC: 8051773570629
Label: Urania Records
Release Date: 11.20.20
Format: CD

Janson / Ronco / Vozza - Cello Sonatas 1 & 2 (2 CD)