Boccherini/Cirri Cello Sonatas (Limelight Magazine)

Cello Sonatas

“Jones has previously recorded three Boccherini sonatas from the same collection while a student; the Cirri sonatas – Nos 3, 4 and 5 – are premiere recordings. Her light, responsive touch and pungent, mostly vibrato-less tone perfectly match Boccherini’s playfulness, exuberant embellishment of repeated figures and his imitations of the strummed chords of the Spanish guitar, which are redolent of another Italian who worked in Spain, Domenico Scarlatti.
Jones, supported throughout by Nuti, McGillivray and Carter, also luxuriates in the rich sonorities of the drawn-out single and multiple-stopped tones. These characterise certain episodes in Boccherini’s music. Cirri’s, by contrast, display a Classical restraint. Highly recommended.”.

See more at: Boccherini, Cirri: Cello Sonatas (Catherine Jones) (limelightmagazine.com.au)


Source: Limelight Magazine
Author: Will Yeoman