Giacob Basevi Cervetto (1690–1783), born into the small Jewish community in Verona, came to London in 1739 and established himself as one of the city’s leading cellists in the middle decades of the eighteenth century. Of his six concertos surviving in manuscript five are for cello, but one, which came to light only recently, is for flute, being a clever adaptation of one of his own flute sonatas. This sparkling and melodious work, whose slow movement contains a written-out cadenza, is well suited to amateur as well as professional performance.

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