Lanzetti / Balssa / Verzier: Sonates a Violoncello Solo E Basso Continuo - COMPACT DISCS

Lanzetti / Balssa / Verzier: Sonates a Violoncello Solo E Basso Continuo - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Sonates a Violoncello Solo E Basso Continuo Artist: Lanzetti Balssa Verzier Label: Lindoro Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 8436003830399 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2018 08 24 Number of Discs: 1 Although Lanzetti remained unknown until the beginning of the 1980s, in his lifetime he was regarded as a brilliant cellist. Yet his virtuosity on the instrument never equaled his fame, which was eclipsed by the popularity of another great 18th

Title: Sonates a Violoncello Solo E Basso Continuo
Artist: Lanzetti / Balssa / Verzier
Label: Lindoro
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 8436003830399
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018-08-24
Number of Discs: 1

Although Lanzetti remained unknown until the beginning of the 1980s, in his lifetime he was regarded as a brilliant cellist. Yet his virtuosity on the instrument never equaled his fame, which was eclipsed by the popularity of another great 18th century Napolian cellist, Franceschiello. In any case, the skills of Lanzetti as a cellist were inimitable. He was born in Naples in 1709, and studied at the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto, the most renowned school for cellists in the eighteenth century, where he received lessons from the greatest cellists of the Neapolitan school. He later moved to Torino, where he became cellist of the Court Theatre, and a member of the Capella Reale. During his lifetime, Lanzetti toured Europe several times. His compositions are exclusively for the cello. He wrote three collections of sonatas for cello and figured bass, a method, some transcriptions, and several sonatas which have been preserved only in manuscripts. Even his early works require a surprisingly high technical ability for his time, and they become even more demanding in his later compositions. Performing these works is cellist Alix Verzier, keyboardist Bertrand Cuiller, and cellist Emmanuel Balssa.

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