Alastair Ross & George Ross - Father & Son: Francesco Geminiani Sonatas for Cello and Continuo, Op. 5 (2024)

Cellist George Ross studied at Royal College of Music in London where he encountered the baroque cello, receiving lessons from Richard Tunnicliffe, then pursued a Masters in historical cello at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Jaap ter Linden. In 2013, he founded the Consone Quartet which became the first period instrument string quartet to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists. Most recently, George has enjoyed returning to the English Haydn Festival as a soloist to perform concertos by C. P. E. Bach and Schumann. He has worked with such groups as the English Concert, Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Arcangelo, and the Hanover Band.

Alastair Ross was a chorister at Christ Church, and later an organ scholar at New College, Oxford. As a freelance organist and harpsichordist for fifty years, Alastair has played for The Sixteen and the Academy of Ancient Music, appearing on all their award-winning recordings for most of that time. For twenty years, with his wife Gilly, he directed Concerto delle Donne, a three-soprano group specialising in music from 17th– and 18th-century Italy and France. They made two recordings for Signum Records, the first one of music by Carissimi, and a visit to a historic organ outside Paris resulting in a further CD of Charpentier’s church music.

Tracklist
01. Cello Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 5, No. 4 I. Andante
02. Cello Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 5, No. 4: II. Allegro moderato
03. Cello Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 5, No. 4: III. Andante
04. Cello Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 5, No. 4: IV. Allegro
05. Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 5, No. 5: I. Adagio
06. Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 5, No. 5: II. Allegro moderato
07. Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 5, No. 5: III. Adagio
08. Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 5, No. 5: IV. Allegro
09. Toccata No. 7: VI. La Folia
10. Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5, No. 2: I. Andante
11. Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5, No. 2: II. Presto
12. Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5, No. 2: III. Adagio
13. Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5, No. 2: IV. Allegro
14. Cello Sonata in A Major, Op. 5, No. 1: I. Andante
15. Cello Sonata in A Major, Op. 5, No. 1: II. Allegro
16. Cello Sonata in A Major, Op. 5, No. 1: III. Andante
17. Cello Sonata in A Major, Op. 5, No. 1: IV. Allegro
18. Chaconne in F Major
19. Cello Sonata in A Minor, Op. 5, No. 6: I. Adagio
20. Cello Sonata in A Minor, Op. 5, No. 6: II. Allegro assai
21. Cello Sonata in A Minor, Op. 5, No. 6: III. Grave
22. Cello Sonata in A Minor, Op. 5, No. 6: IV. Allegro
23. Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 5, No. 3: I. Andante
24. Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 5, No. 3: II. Allegro
25. Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 5, No. 3: III. Affettuoso
26. Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 5, No. 3: IV. Allegro